Dançando contra o organismo: o butôh de Hijikata Tatsumi

Abstract

This article addresses the ankoku butôh creative corpus, or the dance of darkness. Hijikata Tatsumi’s butôh, with the tension of its movements, pulls off the purpose out of the bodies which incarnate the dance. As a cadaver risking its life, in the most exhausting experimentations, it transmutes itself into writing for the sake of the continuous engendering of corporealities. Such a process will be brought to light here with the assistance, above all, of the “body without organs” – a concept brought up by Antonin Artaud and Gilles Deleuze.