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Butoh on the Global Stage: A Celebration of 50 Years
2009 celebrates a half-century since the birth of Butoh in post-war Japan, 1959. Butoh is a dance form, which has as many definitions as it has practitioners or witnesses. At its best, it calls upon our collective and primitive states of consciousness, revealing the spectrum of our expressions (both human and non-human).
Diego Piñón: Butoh-Ritual Mexicano
In June, Water in the Desert Festival will produce a celebration of the birth and developments of this contemporary dance form and its current emergence upon the global stage. We will bring together artists whose works span the entire 50-year history—focusing particularly on the pathways of the dance from Japan into the United States.
“These deserts are not only environmental, such as the destruction of the planet's dwindling rainforests and marshlands; there are also existential deserts -- deserts of the spirit, of the soul, and of the mind. Deserts of meaning. It is precisely this aspect of the global crisis that calls out for a rigorous and inspired philosophy of mind....What is needed now, perhaps more than ever, is to find a way to restore a sense of the sacred to science and to the world -- to embody mind and to "enmind" matter.” --Christian De Quincey
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