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Tag Archives: Butoh

Blind Sight

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 her [...]

Emergence

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.  You [...]