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Costume en face : a primer of darkness for young boys and girls
- Title
- Costume en face : a primer of darkness for young boys and girls / Tatsumi Hijikata ; notebook written by Moe Yamamoto and translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu.
- Author
- Hijikata, Tatsumi, 1928-1986
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.
- Berkely, CA : Small Press Distribution.
- Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
- ©2015
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | *MGS (Japanese) 15-5083 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 15-3161 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- 142 pages : illustrations; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) is a founding father of the radical dance form that he called Butoh, whose choreography required dancers to internalize complex and often grotesque images, experiences and perspectives in order to produce precise movements. Though influenced by Western artists and writers--the expressionist dance of Mary Wigman, the writings of Artaud, de Sade, Bataille, and Genet, and the drawings and paintings of Goya, Picasso, Toyen, Beardsley, and others--he was dedicated to the particular experience of the marginalized, Japanese suffering body after World War II. In the mid-1970s, Hijikata became concerned with developing notation for his Butoh, and some of these Butoh-fu notations remain, largely in the form of notebooks transcribed by his disciples. Costume en Face is the first publication of one of Hijikata's notebook notations in either English or Japanese. In it we can see, for the first time, the profound interconnectedness of language and body in Hijikata's process of composition."--Publisher's website (viewed 03/16/2015).
- Series Statement
- Emergency playscripts ; #4
- Uniform Title
- Emergency playscripts ; no. 4.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- In original Japanese and English translation on facing pages.
- Contents
- Introduction / Takashi Morishita -- Translator's note / Sawako Nakayasu -- Costume en face -- Shōmen no ishō (Costume en face): Butoh in 1976 / Takashi Morishita -- Editor's note / Yelena Gluzman -- Index.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-3161
- ISBN
- 9781937027537
- 1937027538
- OCLC
- 905582518
- Author
- Hijikata, Tatsumi, 1928-1986, author.
- Title
- Costume en face : a primer of darkness for young boys and girls / Tatsumi Hijikata ; notebook written by Moe Yamamoto and translated from the Japanese by Sawako Nakayasu.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2015.
- Distributor
- Berkely, CA : Small Press Distribution.
- Manufacturer
- Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn.
- Copyright Date
- ©2015
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Emergency playscripts ; #4Emergency playscripts ; no. 4.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language
- In original Japanese and English translation on facing pages.
- Place of Publication
- United States New York Brooklyn.
- Added Author
- Yamamoto, Moe, author.Morishita, Takashi, 1950- writer of introduction, writer of added text.Nakayasu, Sawako, 1975- translator, writer of added text.Gluzman, Yelena, writer of added text, editor of series.Shōmen no ishō (Costume en face): Butoh in 1976 adapted from "Method of 1976" in (work): Hijikata tatsumi butōfu no butō = Hijikata Tatsumi's notational butoh.Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.McNaughton & Gunn, printer.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-3161*MGS (Japanese) 15-5083