telegraph article

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While I was trained in literary studies and have spent most of my energies in the Gothic thinking about popular culture, I've been drawn recently to dance and to the ways in which dance so often embodies a "gothic" aesthetic. In particular, I have been fascinated by Butoh, the Japanese *Dance of Utter Darkness.* First, a very little bit of background. Butoh was invented as a dance form by Japanese artists Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno as a post-modernist response to more conventional Japanese stage dance (Noh and Kabuki) as well as European modes of balletic grace and beauty. (

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