Vangeline Launches New Online Platform Exploring Butoh

Vangeline Theater, home of New York Butoh Institute, has launched a new online platform, WRITINGS–From History to Theory, that brings together essays, lectures, reflections, and research by Vangeline exploring Butoh through the lenses of dance, embodiment, history, pedagogy, feminism, the nervous system, and contemporary culture. To read the inaugural essay by Vangeline, please visit https://www.vangeline.com/writings.

These writings emerge from more than three decades of artistic practice, choreography, teaching, and ongoing dialogue with Butoh communities around the world.

The first publication in this series, Butoh, Sensitivity, Sensuality, and the Nervous System, is accompanied by a lecture of the same title. Drawing from both artistic practice and contemporary understandings of the nervous system, Vangeline proposes a new framework for understanding Butoh through bodily sensitivity, perception, and regulation. The essay also reexamines the historical contributions of women to the development of the art form and explores receptivity as both a technical skill and an aesthetic principle within Butoh.