Nov 2 2010

Body cinema: Pawel Dudzinski – Butoh Dancer

As a follow up to my previous review of Incantation documentary, I’m bringing you few video shootages from Butoh performances by Pawel Dudzinski…

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Pawel Dudzinski
Photo above taken from videolife.tk (c)
Photo bellow taken from: o.pl (c)

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Nov 2 2010

Incantatio – old school Butoh

Tomek Wysokinski’s art documentary Incantatio on Polish Butoh dancer Pawel Dudzinski will be my first reviewing from Zagreb Film Festival 2010 edition.

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Feb 20 2010

Body cinema: straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/ by tikul

While I blogged about ‘barbwired‘ project I have stumbled on video… more like a sketch by Vimeo user tikul. I’m hoping that tikul won’t be angry on me because I’m posting now ‘straitjacket ‘butoh’ dance/’ video here…

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Aug 22 2009

Marija Scekic’s butoh labyrinths

Marija Scekic is a contemporary dancer from Croatia who can be characterized as ‘a performer with guts’. Her strong and authentic concentration on the stage is a result of heavy bodily education and physical predisposition.

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Aug 11 2009

Body cinema: Dance of Darkness by Edin Velez

Documentary film by Edin Velez on Butoh entitled Dance of Darkness (58 min) is probably known to all who were even partly interested in this enigmatic and strong Japanese dance form. The film covers historic development of Butoh but still stays in track of an experimental film, too.

dance_of_darkness.jpgExcerpts from film  Dance of Darkness by Edin Velez

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Jun 23 2009

Pál Frenák – visions of spiral Butoh

After blogging on dance and technology, let’s get back to the body…  an essential bodily theatre… contemporary dance inspired by Butoh…

Pál Frenák‘s choreography ‘Mennono’, which I saw on Dance Week Festival, gave me an opportunity to check again how Hungarians are doing physical theatre and stage philosophy… and I usually just plunge into it… letting my mind to flow with the artwork…

mennono_1.jpgPhoto: Compagnie Pal Frenak (c)

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