Butoh Dictionary
There are currently 9 terms in this directory beginning with the letter D.
Dark Points
A term coined by Turkish butoh artist Özerk Sonat Pamir as part of his Breath Body method representing any point in the body which has lost awareness or feeling.
In butoh, we are expected to connect with every point in the body. Any point that has lost awareness is to be rehabilitated via breath.
In butoh, we are expected to connect with every point in the body. Any point that has lost awareness is to be rehabilitated via breath.
Deep Fake
In the context of Shadowbody, this is when something appearing trivial, fake, playful, or superficial is placed in the category of profound.
Also called fraudthenticity or fauxthenticity.
The concept is inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata's writing Ailing Dancer where at the beginning of the writing he states, “Because of monotonic and anxious things storming the body, I might faintly be aiming at an opportunity to fabricate fake things within by wearing a haze to the body.”
According to Rhizome Lee’s in-class commentary, “fabricating fake things” was a reversal of the “authenticity” or “real” goal of creation. To Lee, this was one of Hijikata’s trickster-like moments of putting the supposed goal of theatre on its head.
Also called fraudthenticity or fauxthenticity.
The concept is inspired by Tatsumi Hijikata's writing Ailing Dancer where at the beginning of the writing he states, “Because of monotonic and anxious things storming the body, I might faintly be aiming at an opportunity to fabricate fake things within by wearing a haze to the body.”
According to Rhizome Lee’s in-class commentary, “fabricating fake things” was a reversal of the “authenticity” or “real” goal of creation. To Lee, this was one of Hijikata’s trickster-like moments of putting the supposed goal of theatre on its head.
Defamiliarization
Term related to deterritorialization and recontextualization where the ordinary function or meaning of something is made unfamiliar or changed to something else.
This is at the very basis of Viktor Shkovsky’s view of art. Shkovsky notes, “The technique of art is to make objects “unfamiliar,” to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.”
In butoh a good rule of thumb to know that any object is not what it appears to be.
This is at the very basis of Viktor Shkovsky’s view of art. Shkovsky notes, “The technique of art is to make objects “unfamiliar,” to make forms difficult, to increase the difficulty and length of perception because the process of perception is an aesthetic end in itself and must be prolonged.”
In butoh a good rule of thumb to know that any object is not what it appears to be.
Definigmatic
Shadowbody terminology of a portmanteau play on words between "definite" and "enigmatic" making definigmatic.
For butoh, it emphasizes the importance of not only having focus but also spontaneity.
For butoh, it emphasizes the importance of not only having focus but also spontaneity.
Deterritorialization
A concept from Deleuze and Guattari describing the process by which established structures, codes, or territories are disrupted, allowing movement, thought, or desire to escape fixed boundaries. In artistic practice, deterritorialization opens space for novel forms, fluid identities, and unexpected connections.
Concept parallels that of recontextualization.
Example use in Shadowbody: the arm is deterrirtorialized when it enters into a becoming-eel.
The difficult is in not engaging pantomime but in Deleuzean concept of becoming-x, so a translation of intensities or "intensive differences" such as speeds or temperaments.
Concept parallels that of recontextualization.
Example use in Shadowbody: the arm is deterrirtorialized when it enters into a becoming-eel.
The difficult is in not engaging pantomime but in Deleuzean concept of becoming-x, so a translation of intensities or "intensive differences" such as speeds or temperaments.
Disabled Body
In Shadowbody, the disabled body is one of the human character tropes or butoh in real life that either inspires or resembles butoh.
Dreambody
Another term for Subbody. inspired by Aboriginal dreamtime, describing how the subconscious rises into the dancing body, merging dreaming and waking states into movement.
Drunk Body
In Shadowbody, the drunk body is one of the human character tropes or butoh in real life that either inspires or resembles butoh.
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