May 3, 2011
Photo: AZPM
Butoh, a Japanese dance form, is gaining in popularity throughout the world and in Tucson.
Jodi Netzer is a practitioner of Butoh, a dance form that is gaining avid participants worldwide and in Tucson.
Many are seeking--and finding--self-discovery through the dance, says Netzer, who describes it as "where you can learn how to see yourself and the world, perhaps for the first time.”
Netzer is also director of the dance and theater program for Tucson Arts Brigade, where she leads workshops for people interested in learning about Butoh and its history.
She says Butoh is a powerful contemporary Japanese dance form that arose in the aftermath of WWII. She adds the dance can be “mysterious yet universal,” and she points out it “works with energy and is based on transcendent improvisational movement journeys that are strongly connected to nature and the human condition.”
Sachiko Hamada recently attended a three-day workshop on Butoh that culminated with a public performance. Before this experience, Sachiko had never performed Butoh or any other form of dance in front of a live audience.
“This was really an unexpected thing,” she says of the performance. “I kind of (got) lost in that space to find myself.”
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