Butoh and Suzuki Performance in Australia

Butoh and Suzuki Performance in Australia

Bent Legs on Strange Grounds, 1982-2023

Marshall, Jonathan W.

Brill

01/2025

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Acknowlegements

List of Figures



1 Bodies Possessed by History: an Introduction to Butoh and Suzuki

?1 Introduction

?2 Butoh, Suzuki and the Move to Australia

?3 Primal Scenes of Butoh Encounter

?4 What is Butoh?

?5 Suzuki Technique and the Way of Stomping

?6 Lineages of Descent Ancient and Modern in Butoh and Suzuki

?7 Butoh and Suzuki Technique in Other National Contexts

?8 Criticism and Reception of Japanese Performance in Australia

?9 Emptiness and Possession

?10 Primary Sources and Thick Description

?11 Overview and Book Structure



2 Butoh and the Australian Context: Dancing the Landscape While Dancing Global Relations

?1 Introduction

?2 Consolidation in Japan and Movement to Australia

?3 Tanaka's "Map of History through Dancing" in the Contested Lands
of Australia

?4 Corpus Nullius: Moving beyond the Emptiness of the Butoh Body

?5 Expressive Japanese Performance as a Counter to the Postmodern "Performance of Absence"

?6 Bodies in Opposition to the Australian Legend: Butoh, Suzuki and Grotowski

?7 Troubled Relations between Australia and Asia Prior to the Japan Theatre Boom

?8 The Japanese Theatrical Boom in Australia, 1982-1994



3 De Quincey Takes Body Weather Inland: Lake Mungo and Alice Springs

?1 Introduction

?2 De Quincey's Butoh Encounter and Position Within Australian Dance

?3 Tanaka Min and Body Weather

?4 De Quincey's Development from Postwar Britain to Australia

?5 De Quincey's First Solos in Australia

?6 Body Weather as an Uncanny Project: Tracing an "Interactive History of the Senses" on Australia's Colonised Lands

?7 De Quincey's Lake Mungo Workshops, 1991-92, and beyond

?8 Lake Mungo Performance Works and on to Alice Springs

?9 Triple Alice, 1999-2001

?10 Triple Alice Performances and Dictionary of Atmospheres (2005)



4 Body Weather Comes Back from the Desert:
De Quincey's Urban Works, the Hysterical Body, and Other Body Weather Performers in Australia

?1 Introduction

?2 De Quincey's Urban and Industrial Site-Specific Works: Compression ?100 (1996), City to City (2000), The Stirring (2007), Run (2009)

?3 A Masterpiece of Hysterio-Choreography: Nerve ?9 (2001-05)

?4 Other Bodyweather Artists in Australia

?5 Heywood and Humanimal Body Weather

?6 European Tanztheater Meets Australian Body Weather:
Martin Del Amo

?7 Post-Colonial Butoh and Rejecting the Empty Body: Gretel Taylor

?8 Evidence of Bodily Emergences

?9 Fragmented and Dialectical Bodies



5 Diasporic Austral-Asian Fusions 1: Early Works by Umiumare
and Yap

?1 Introduction

?2 Umiumare's and Yap's Butoh Encounters

?3 Umiumare and Yap within the Context Butoh

?4 Maro and Dairakudakan

?5 Umiumare: From Regional Japan to Urban Australia

?5 Tony Ding Chai Yap: From Melakan Trance to Australian Physical Theatre

?6 Theatre of Sacrifice and Redemption: Yap in IRAA, 1988-94

?7 Mixed Company and Tony Yap Company, 1993-Present

?8 Umiumare and Yap in Love Suicides (1998), Miss Tanaka (2001), and Meat Party (2000)

?9 Kagome (1996-98)

?10 Sunrise at Midnight (2001): a Sequel to De Quincey's Mungo Workshops

?11 Duets by Umiumare and Yap: How Could You Even Begin to Understand? (1996-2007), In-Compatibility (2003) and Zero Zero (2010-14)

?12 Umiumare's Fleeting Moments (1998)

?13 Yap's Decay of the Angel (1999)

?14 Conclusion



6 Diasporic Austral-Asian Fusions 2: Yap's Trance Dance and Umiumare's Butoh Cabaret, Character Dances and First Nations Collaborations

?1 Introduction

?2 Butoh Cabaret and Hystericised Character Dances: Umiumare's DasSHOKU Series (1999-2015) and Entrance (2009-12)

?3 Umiumare's First Nations Collaborations: Marrugeku's Burning Daylight (2006-09) and Big Hart's Ngapartji Ngapartji
(2007-12)

?4 Yap and Trance Dance; Umiumare and Jujutsu

?5 Yap's Eulogy for the Living (2009-17), Rasa Sayang (2010), and Liminal City (2021-22)

?6 A Trance Dance Masterpiece: Yap's Animal/God: the Great
Square (2021)

?7 Conclusion: Yap's Map Fest (2008-Present) and Umiumare's ButohOUT! (2017-Present)



7 Stomping Downunder: Suzuki and Frank Theatre

?1 Introduction

?2 Carroll's and Nobbs' Encounters with Suzuki

?3 Suzuki Tadashi in Japan and Australia

?4 The Australian Production of Chronicle of Macbeth (1992)

?5 Foundation of Frank Theatre

?6 Larrikin Orientalism: Frank Theatre's Early Works

?7 Universalism, Localism and Racial Hierarchies

?8 Nobbs Suzuki Praxis (NSP)

?9 Butoh Incursions, the Hysterical Body, and Emptiness

?10 Frank's Doll Seventeen (2002-03)

?11 Conclusion: the Way Forward is Mixed



8 Butoh in the Southern Tropics: Zen Zen Zo and Associates

?1 Introduction

?2 Bradley's and Woods' Encounters with Japanese Performance

?3 Zen Zen Zo's Foundation and the Development of Its Aesthetic, 1992-98

?4 Zen Zen Zo's Early Work and Brisbane Physical Theatre

?5 Zen Zen Zo, Frank and Reworking Japanese Aesthetics

?6 Zen Zen Zo's Early Butoh Productions and Butoh Choruses

?7 Fusing Butoh with Suzuki: Zen Zen Zo's Cult of Dionysus
(1994-96)

?8 Frances Barbe's Tohoku Australis

?9 Butoh Diffusions



9 Conclusion: Two Closing Scenes from Australian Adaptations of Butoh and Suzuki

?1 NYID?S the Dispossessed (2008) and Hunt's Copper Promises (2016)



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