TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) articles from March 2000

TDR (Cambridge, Mass.) archives from March 2000

Theatre Alive in the New Millennium.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... For a long time I bemoaned the "death of theatre," predicting that theatre would be the "string-quartet of the 21st century." Well the 21st century is here, and so is theatre. I was wrong. Recently I have seen some powerful theatre. The...

Letters, Etc.
March 22, 2000... Announcements ISTA in Germany 1-10 September 2000 "Action, Structure, and Coherence--Dramaturgical Techniques in the Performing Arts" is the theme of this first session of the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA) in...

Hijikata Tatsumi The Words of Butoh.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2000... The founder of butoh, Hijikata Tatsumi, passed away in 1986 at the age of 57. In contrast to another butoh founder, Ono Kazuo, who is 93 years old and still performing internationally, Hijikata never left Japan. Nonetheless, Hijikata's...

Hijikata Tatsumi Chronology.(Obituary)
March 22, 2000... 1928 9 March: Born Yoneyama Kunio in Akita Prefecture. 1940 Graduates from an elementary school affiliated with Akita Prefectural Normal School and enters Akita Prefectural Technical High School. 1945 Graduates from high school and...

Inner Material/Material.
March 22, 2000... Inner Material "You have to pull your stomach up high in order to turn your solar plexus into a terrorist." That line is from a letter I sent to Ms. Elian Margaret, a woman with psychic powers who wrote a commentary last summer about my...

To Prison.
March 22, 2000... I, who caught a cold by looking at a stone and became anxious on seeing a landscape with no one in it, grew up thinking myself maimed. One day a man stood next to my father; a tree cracked and my father fell. Clutching a stone, I resisted; my...

Plucking off the Darkness of the Flesh.(Interview)
March 22, 2000... SHIBUSAWA: Your "dance of darkness" [ankoku buyo] is a philosophical statement of sorts, isn't it? When you read poetry or look at paintings, you're likely to say, "This is butoh." Does that mean that anything at all can be butoh? ...

From Being Jealous of a Dog's Vein.(Fiction)
March 22, 2000... Only when, despite having a normal, healthy body, you come to wish that you were disabled or had been born disabled, do you take your first step in butoh. A person who dances butoh has just such a fervent desire, much like a child's longing...

On Material II Fautrier(1).(Brief Article)(Poem)
March 22, 2000... Hijikata Tatsumi Establish a study of different movements and promote fusion, not contrast The mixture of a [beast?] body of female [illegible] in Princess Kaguya(2) is clear on this point This needs to be developed...

Fragments of Glass.(Hijikata Tatsumi and Suzuki Tadashi - conversation)
March 22, 2000... A Conversation between Hijikata Tatsumi and Suzuki Tadashi moderated by Senda Akihiko Suzuki Tadashi is currently the Artistic Director of the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center in Shizuoka, Japan. He began working in theatre while a...

Wind Daruma.(Japanese mythology)
March 22, 2000... I've gone and caught a terrible cold, and I bet there are people in the audience too who have colds. It's the first cold I've had in 20 years. With this cold I don't sweat much, either night or day, but ray nose runs and when I blow it, my...

Japanese Theatre 1960s-Present.
March 22, 2000... A repeatedly portrayed event contributing to the cultural climate of Japanese experimental theatre is the renewal of the security treaty between Japan and the United States of America (AMPO) in 1960. The renewal of the Treaty, originally...

Images of Armageddon: Japan's 1980s Theatre Culture.
March 22, 2000... I The end of Japan's "bubble economy" around 1990 created a new version of neonationalism.(2) Cultural producers have been desperately attempting to create a narrative connecting the failure of Japan's once invincible economic power to...

Japan As Dystopia.
March 22, 2000... Kawamura Takeshi's Daisan Erotica Japan as a nation is well on the way to eradicating history. As long as we stay within Japanese society, this will induce a pseudo-utopian euphoria. The moment we step outside and look around, we will...

Kawamura Takeshi: New Ideas in/for Japanese Theatre.
March 22, 2000... The following interview with the playwright/founding director of Daisan Erotica took place on 14 November 1997 in New York. MARTIN: What was the cultural climate in which you first began to make theatre? KAWAMURA: It was the...

The Lost Babylon.(Japanese play)
March 22, 2000... In The Lost Babylon, Kawamura Takeshi engages what he sees as an undercurrent of violence in Japanese contemporary society, and references several recent events widely covered in the Japanese media. Specifically, Kawamura's play is informed...

Uncle Tom's Cabin.(the portrayal of African Americans in the silent film era)
March 22, 2000... Before and After the Jim Crow Era Preface There is no topic more depressing than that of blacks in early American cinema, the topic of this article. The problem is the intersection of the period of silent cinema (1895 roughly through...

Up against the Ropes.(black Australian boxer Peter Jackson)
March 22, 2000... Peter Jackson As "Uncle Tom" in America When Peter Jackson, Australia's heavyweight champion, arrived in America in 1888, he was known as "The Black Prince"; by the time he left for home, 12 years later, he was more often thought of as...

The No Plays of Japan: An Anthology.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The No Plays of Japan: An Anthology. By Arthur Waley. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1998; 288 pp. $9.95 paper. When two editions of The No Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley first appeared seven decades ago, they were pioneering works...

Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays. Edited by Karen Brazell. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998; 561 pp. $49.50 cloth. When two editions of The No Plays of Japan by Arthur Waley first appeared seven decades ago,...

Chinese Theories of Theater and Performance from Confucius to the Present.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Chinese Theories of Theater and Performance from Confucius to the Present. Edited and translated by Faye Chunfang Fei. Foreword by Richard Schechner. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1999; 213 pp. $44.50 cloth. The Lincoln...