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Fierce Fire

Saturday, November 12, 2011

  If you emerge from a hot tub or shower into the cold night, you may see rivulets of steam rising from your skin.  If the environment is dark and a light source illuminates the steam from behind, you can see it clearly.  A runner on a chilly morning may also generate steam from the [...]

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Ohno: Oh Yes

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Kazuo Ohno, a seminal figure in the butoh dance movement and one of the great creative spirits of our time, passed away June 1, 2010, at the age of 103. I saw Ohno perform in 1996 at the Japan Society in New York.  In an essay posted on my first website, I wrote, ” I [...]

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Blind Sight

Friday, May 1, 2009

I’ve collaborated with many dancers and performers over the past fifteen years or so, creating projected imagery and other visual elements to integrate with live performances.  Among all of them, my collaboration with dancer Mana Hashimoto has been unique. Mana, who trained as a musician at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, lost [...]

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Emergence

Thursday, March 26, 2009

Emergence from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.  2003, duration 13:45 Butoh dancers use breath and visualizations projected within and around the body to embody elemental forces and to explore pre-verbal sensations and experiences.  It’s a form of dance that arose in Japan in the ferment of experimental art and postwar radicalism starting in the late 1950′s.  [...]

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