Featured Artist – Denise Fujiwara Butoh: Dance of Transformation

S.K. Levine
2016 Creative Arts in Education and Therapy  
The following is the text of an interview with Denise Fujiwara, a Japanese-Canadian Butoh dancer, choreographer, and teacher, who is our Featured Artist for this issue of the CAET journal, preceded by a short account of a Butoh performance by Stephen K. Levine in 2016. Fujiwara talks about her background and training, and introduces several key principles of Butoh, including that of ma, the space in between. Butoh is understood as a dance of transformation, rooting the performer and spectator
more » ... the body and its relationship to nature and the elemental.
doi:10.15534/caet/2016/2/14 fatcat:eo3y2bj65vb3hikbkbec7wemfy