Buto is rarely given the credit it deserves as one of the most
innovative forms of dance and theater that emerged throughout the
20th century. One of the world's leading experts on the form,
author Bruce Baird offers in The History of Buto a new account of a
crucial and influential performance art of the latter half of the
20th century. Tracing the performances and techniques of ten of the
most important names in the first and second generation of buto,
including Hijikata Tatsumi, Maro Akaji, Carlotta Ikeda, and
Kobayashi Saga, as well as following its migration abroad to France
and elsewhere, The History of Buto puts on display the creativity
of the founders as well as the variety of directions taken by
subsequent dancers. In addition, this book places these
choreographer/dancers at the center of many of our time's most
important issues, demonstrating the importance and relevance of
their reflections around the relationship between humans,
technology and new media, and the status of gender and ethnicity in
Japan, Europe, and the world. Baird guides us through all of this
with an approachable, expansive view of an artform with which he is
intimately and uniquely familiar.
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