Bruce Baird and Rosemary Candelario (eds), The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance.

Butoh, an avant-garde art form developed in 1960s Japan that expanded into a worldwide phenomenon by the end of the twentieth century, has received more attention in English-language scholarship than any other dance practice from East Asia. Numerous book-length studies, including most recently two by the editors of this volume, examine in detail the artistic I oeuvres i of major butoh or butoh-adjacent artists such as Hijikata Tatsumi, Ohno Kazuo, Eiko and Koma, and others, while also examining the histories, artistries, and politics of butoh in Japan and around the globe. One highlight for me in reading this book was the attention it pays not only to the development of butoh as an artistic practice but also to the competing interpretive discourses that surround it. [Extracted from the article]