Comments on: “Butoh is my physical theatre.” – Acty Tang http://thewinger.com/words/2007/%e2%80%9cbutoh-is-my-physical-theatre%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-acty-tang/ Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:33:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Maia http://thewinger.com/words/2007/%e2%80%9cbutoh-is-my-physical-theatre%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-acty-tang/#comment-6541 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:50:34 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/%e2%80%9cbutoh-is-my-physical-theatre%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-acty-tang/#comment-6541 Thanx Tonya :) Yes those questions are incredibly inspiring. It is questioning that cultivates growth in dance. I suppose that is why I enjoy Lepecki's writing so much - he really brings the questions to the fore. In his bio Acty writes that he "doesn’t feel like a dancer or a choreographer, in the conventional sense. Instead of line or rhythm, his work is best described as an intuition of the power and nuances in his body, which is unearthed through performance, like an archaeologist digging for his find." Butoh is of course hauntingly beautiful! And so is Acty's work - as you can see from the photo's. Thanx Tonya :)

Yes those questions are incredibly inspiring. It is questioning that cultivates growth in dance. I suppose that is why I enjoy Lepecki’s writing so much - he really brings the questions to the fore.

In his bio Acty writes that he “doesn’t feel like a dancer or a choreographer, in the conventional sense. Instead of line or rhythm, his work is best described as an intuition of the power and nuances in his body, which is unearthed through performance, like an archaeologist digging for his find.”

Butoh is of course hauntingly beautiful! And so is Acty’s work - as you can see from the photo’s.

]]> by: tonya http://thewinger.com/words/2007/%e2%80%9cbutoh-is-my-physical-theatre%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-acty-tang/#comment-6539 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:27:45 +0000 http://thewinger.com/words/2007/%e2%80%9cbutoh-is-my-physical-theatre%e2%80%9d-%e2%80%93-acty-tang/#comment-6539 This is so interesting, Maia. Acty sounds fascinating. I think David posted a while back on seeing a Butoh performance here and was really taken with it. It made me sorry I hadn't gone to Brooklyn to see the dance group performing. Next time! I think the questions of why dance-makers make dance, what audiences desire to see, and what dance even is and supposedly isn't (which the Lepecki book deals with), or what are and aren't the proper subjects of dance, are all so compelling. (and I love that he is inspired by Sontag :) ) I'll definitely have to see Acty's work someday. Thanks for exposing him to us! This is so interesting, Maia. Acty sounds fascinating. I think David posted a while back on seeing a Butoh performance here and was really taken with it. It made me sorry I hadn’t gone to Brooklyn to see the dance group performing. Next time!

I think the questions of why dance-makers make dance, what audiences desire to see, and what dance even is and supposedly isn’t (which the Lepecki book deals with), or what are and aren’t the proper subjects of dance, are all so compelling. (and I love that he is inspired by Sontag :) ) I’ll definitely have to see Acty’s work someday. Thanks for exposing him to us!

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