Fabulating the Japanese Body Inside and Beyond Performance and Choreography Through Butoh

Cristina Elias

doi:10.6092/issn.2036-1599/11891

Auteurs

Cristina Elias Center for Oriental Studies, PUC-Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo

Cristina Elias (born 1978, São Paulo-Brazil). Master’s Degree in Movement Studies, achieved at the Central School of Speech and Drama-University of London, and PhD in Design at the Anhembi Morumbi-University in São Paulo, she actually collaborates with the Center for Oriental Studies at PUC-Pontifícia Universidade Católica of São Paulo, directed by Prof. Christine Greiner. As performer and artist, she displayed her works in several venues in Europe and Brazil, such as the Radial System in Berlin, the Dança em Foco Festival in Rio de Janeiro, the MAM-Museum of Modern Art in São Paulo and the MAXXI in Rome.

DOI :

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-1599/11891

Résumé

In this article, I question the genesis of the self one perceives as such, by approaching the creative process of the performance Pele, which, through movement, video and text, operates a continued matching of apparently opposing elements such as inside and outside of the body, I and other, body and mind, individual and collective. I describe how recent Butoh training experiences have offered as a pathway for achieving a corporeal state of connectedness. Based on the procedural non-dualistic theory proposed Christine Greiner in Fabulations of the Japanese Body and its micro-activisms, the aim not to erase nor solve the tensions deriving from these encounters, but to give way to these questionings and consequent agitation, maintaining the diversities alive, in a state of quasi-balance.