Hijikata Tatsumi’s Sabotage of Movement and The Desire to Kill

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dc.identifier	ECF_chapter_504
dc.contributor.author	Centonze Katja
dc.title	Hijikata Tatsumi’s Sabotage of Movement and The Desire to Kill the Ideology of Death
dc.type	Capitolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.description.abstract	Death and desire appear as essential characteristics in Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō, which brings the paradox of life and death, of stillness and movement into play. Hijikata places these contradictions at the roots of dance itself. This analysis points out several aspects displayed in butō’s death aesthetics and performing processes, which catch the tension between being dead and/or alive, between presence and absence. It is shown how the physical states of biological death are enacted, and demonstrated that in Hijikata’s nonhuman theatre of eroticism death stands out as an object aligned with the other objects on stage including the performer’s carnal body (nikutai). The discussion focuses on Hijikata’s radical investigation of corporeality, which puts under critique not only the nikutai, but even the corpse (shitai), revealing the cultural narratives they are subjected to.
dc.relation.ispartof	Ca’ Foscari Japanese Studies
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing
dc.issued	2017-05-31
dc.dateAccepted	2017-02-08
dc.dateSubmitted	2016-08-09
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/libri/978-88-6969-150-8/hijikata-tatsumis-sabotage-of-movement-and-the-des/
dc.identifier.doi	10.14277/6969-151-5/CFJS-6-7
dc.identifier.issn	2610-8976
dc.identifier.eissn	2610-9395
dc.identifier.isbn	978-88-6969-150-8
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-88-6969-151-5
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
item.fulltext	with fulltext
item.grantfulltext	open
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Acephale
dc.subject	Acephale
dc.subject	Anti-Dance
dc.subject	Anti-Dance
dc.subject	Body and Object
dc.subject	Body and Object
dc.subject	Butō
dc.subject	Butō
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corporeality
dc.subject	Corpse
dc.subject	Corpse
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Death
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Eroticism
dc.subject	Hijikata Tatsumi
dc.subject	Hijikata Tatsumi
dc.subject	Shibusawa Tatsuhiko
dc.subject	Shibusawa Tatsuhiko

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Hijikata Tatsumi’s Sabotage of Movement and The Desire to Kill the Ideology of Death

Katja Centonze Universität Trier, Deutschland; Waseda University, Japan

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abstract

Death and desire appear as essential characteristics in Hijikata Tatsumi’s butō, which brings the paradox of life and death, of stillness and movement into play. Hijikata places these contradictions at the roots of dance itself. This analysis points out several aspects displayed in butō’s death aesthetics and performing processes, which catch the tension between being dead and/or alive, between presence and absence. It is shown how the physical states of biological death are enacted, and demonstrated that in Hijikata’s nonhuman theatre of eroticism death stands out as an object aligned with the other objects on stage including the performer’s carnal body (nikutai). The discussion focuses on Hijikata’s radical investigation of corporeality, which puts under critique not only the nikutai, but even the corpse (shitai), revealing the cultural narratives they are subjected to.

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08 Febbraio 2017

Presentato

09 Agosto 2016

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978-88-6969-150-8

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978-88-6969-151-5

Keywords: Butō • Shibusawa Tatsuhiko • Hijikata Tatsumi • Death • Eroticism • Corpse • Anti-Dance • Corporeality • Acephale • Body and Object

permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-151-5/CFJS-6-7

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