Butoh Dictionary
There are currently 3 terms in this directory beginning with the letter H.
Haecceity
A term from Deleuze and Guattari encompassing a segment of experience where the place/set/setting is not separate from the self.
To the butoh dancer, the body and place are linked. This can be related to the concept of the transparent body.
From Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: “Climate, wind, season, hour are not of another nature than the things, animals , or people that populate them, [but] follow them, sleep and awaken within them. This should be read without a pause: the-animal-stalks-at-five-o’clock. The becoming-evening, becoming-night of an animal, blood nuptials. Five o’clock is this animal! This animal is this place!"
To the butoh dancer, the body and place are linked. This can be related to the concept of the transparent body.
From Deleuze & Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus: “Climate, wind, season, hour are not of another nature than the things, animals , or people that populate them, [but] follow them, sleep and awaken within them. This should be read without a pause: the-animal-stalks-at-five-o’clock. The becoming-evening, becoming-night of an animal, blood nuptials. Five o’clock is this animal! This animal is this place!"
Holy Act
A Jerzy Grotwosky (1933 - 1999) term regarding an actor who gives themselves totally in performance — stripping away masks, defenses, and ego — to reveal their innermost truth. It is not about representing a character, but about an offering of one’s own being in front of others like a sacrifice.
Hybrid Body
Unlike the stacked body or chimera, the hybrid body does not have separately defined qualias but instead are merged together into a new qualia like an offspring or like yellow and blue making green. A little bouncy ball and a leech might turn into a fat homunculus that bounces all over the place with fat suckers all over it.
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