I am a butoh dancer, performance artist, and choreographer working at the intersection of contemporary philosophy and educational politics
About me
Butoh is a thought on life and a song to it. Butoh is praying and praying is listening.
I am fascinated by the uniquely human desire to become a complete stranger to oneself—to transform into something beyond the human. I am also fascinated by singing to the world through embodied poetry, which, curiously, emerges from listening to it. My dance is a shapeshifting practice that chants the world and questions the place of the human within it.
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Thought Maps
11
/02/26
One hundred ways of butoh or what is butoh
/ Butoh is not a single aesthetic or method but a constellation of forces, a shifting field of impulses that emerged in postwar Japan and continues to expand today.
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20
/11/25
Existence
/ Things do not need to be physically present in order to be actually present — one can speak them and call them into being. Any poet knows that.
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03
/08/25
An Empty Vessel in Butoh
/ What does it mean to be an empty vessel? It means to be a delimitation of space that can contain something. This image is useful because...
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