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Anniversary of Butoh and Futurism: International Conference "Avant-garde in Japan", Venice, 14-15 sept.
International Conference “Avant-garde in Japan”
University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Auditorium Santa Margherita, September 14th-15th, 2009
Abstract
The year 2009 marks two important anniversaries for all those interested in Japanese studies.It is the 100th anniversary of the introduction of historical avant-gardes in Japan (1909) and the 50th anniversary of the official debut of But?. Mori ?gai’s Japanese translation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism (1909) and the first staging of the performance Kinjiki (1959) are symbolically linked as two products of the cultural cross-fertilization between European and Japanese avant-garde.
To celebrate these anniversaries, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will hold an international symposium on the Japanese avant-garde scenes and their social and cultural impact across the 20th century. A concluding panel will be dedicated to “Japanese dance: Tradition versus contemporarism”.
September 14th, 2009
Morning panel: Avant-garde in Japan/Japan in the Avant-garde
On February 20, 1909,the first Manifesto of Futurism was published on the French newspaper Le Figaro. This event marked the official appearance of Italian Futurism, founded by Milanese poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and is regarded today as one of the starting points of 20th century international avant-garde. After only three months, Moriogai, the celebrated writer and scholar,was to give on the pages of the magazine Subaru(Pleiad) the first Japanese translation of Marinetti’s Manifesto.
His translation can be considered as the beginning of the reception of European avant-garde in Japan. In the following years, the presentation of Futurism and other European movements such as Cubism, Expressionism and Dada sparked a wide debate in the Japanese press, and drew the attention of many thinkers and artists (such as Yosano Hiroshi, Takamura Kotaro, Kimura Shohachi,Murayama Tomoyoshi and many others) to the latest trends in Western art. This was to exert a profound influence on the young artists and writers of the new generation, and led in the 1920s to the formation of a burgeoning modernist scene.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marinetti’s Manifesto and of ogai’s translation, so rich in symbolic value as an instance of cultural interaction between Italy and Japan, the Department of East Asian Studies will organize a multi-disciplinary panel on the Japanese avant-garde and on its cultural, social and political contexts.
September 14th, 2009
Afternoon panel:
Butoh: Past and Forward - For the 50 Years’ Anniversary of Butoh
In 1959 the performance Kinjiki was presented by Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Yoshito. Since then, 1959 has been considered the official debut of the avant-garde phenomenon known as Ankoku But?, which strongly influenced European and American dance since the 1980s arousing great interest among the audience and artists, more than in Japan itself.
As Butoh has achieved a great importance also in Italy, it is important to celebrate on the occasion of its 50th anniversary with an academic roundtable this event. In particular, Venice is an ideal stage, considering how all the lectures and workshops, organized in the past years (1999, 2000,2005) have gained a strong echo among students, artists, and professionals.
Noteworthy are as well the several collaborations realized with Biennale Danza Venezia (1999 Ohno, 2000 Sankaijuku, 2007 Murobushi).
In the same evening will be held a performance by Kawaguchi Takao "Good Luck".
September 15th, 2009
Morning panel: The Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism
A concluding panel will aim at evaluating both the elements of coherence and the points of discontinuity among Japanese traditional and contemporary dance. Bonaventura RUPERTI (Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and an expert of Japanese traditional theatre) and TAKEMOTO Mikio (who is the Director of The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University) will illustrate the role of dance in traditional Japanese theatre, while ISHII Tatsuro (who is one of the most important dance critics in Japan and expert of Butoh and Professor at Keio University and Waseda University) and MORISHITA Takashi (one of the closest persons to the Hijikata’s family and responsible of the Hijikata Tatsumi Memorial Archive, Kei? University, Art Center) will exemplify the current state of contemporary dance in Japan as much as the innovative quality which characterized it. Katja CENTONZE (Lecturer of Japanese Language and Literature at University of Calabria, currently a visiting researcher at COE in The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University) will chair the panel, while professor Stanca Scholz-Cionca
(University of Trier) will act as discussant.
The entire event is realized with the generous support of the Japan Foundation.
PROGRAMME
Monday, Sept. 14th, 2009
9.30 Opening ceremony
10.00 - 13.00 Morning panel
Avant-garde in Japan / Japan in the Avant-garde
Discussant:
Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Thomas HACKNER (University of Trier)
Marginal Modernismo - The Historical Avant-gardes in Japan
Pierantonio ZANOTTI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Some Notes on the Reception of Valentine de Saint-Point in Taisho Japan
Marco DEL BENE (“La Sapienza” University of Rome)
Media, Freedom of Expression, and the Demise of “Taish? Democracy”
Roberta NOVIELLI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
J-Horror: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion
14.30 - 17.00 Afternoon panel
Buto: Past and Forward
Katja CENTONZE (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University-University of Calabria - University of Trier) Bodies shifting from Hijikata’s“Nikutai” to Contemporary “Shintai”: New Generation facing Corporeality
ISHII Tatsuro (Keio University - Waseda University) Body as Object: How could Butoh go beyond Orientalism?
MORISHITA Takashi (Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Art Center, Keio University) Hijikata Tatsumi in the Early 70s: Toward the Construction of Butoh Notation
Eugenia CASINI ROPA (University of Bologna) A Soul “wearing the Body as a Glove”: German Ausdruckstanz and But?
17.30 - 18.30 Discussion and closing remarks
19.00 Performance
KAWAGUCHI Takao
Good Luck
Tuesday, Sept. 15th, 2009
10.00 - 12.00 Morning panel
The Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism
Chair:
Katja CENTONZE (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University
- University of Calabria - University of Trier)
Discussant:
Stanca SCHOLZ-CIONCA (University of Trier) Transgressing Borders: Noh and
Butoh in Okamoto Akira’s “Mu”
TAKEMOTO Mikio (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda
University)「舞踊劇としての能−能における舞踊の役割を中心に−」
Bonaventura RUPERTI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
「歌舞伎と舞踊−舞、踊り、変化」
ISHII Tatsuro (Keio University - Waseda University)
MORISHITA Takashi (Keio University)
12.30 - 13.15 Discussion and
closing remarks
13.15 - 13.30 Closing ceremony
Department of East Asian Studies
Ca' Foscari University - Venice
Palazzo Vendramin ai Carmini
Dorsoduro 3462 - 30123 Venice
www.unive.it/dsao
For more info please contact Pierantonio Zanotti: p.zanotti@unive.it
Here is conference information on Butoh.
Anniversary of Butoh and Futurism: International Conference "Avant-garde in Japan", Venice, 14-15 sept.
International Conference “Avant-garde in Japan”
University Ca’ Foscari of Venice
Auditorium Santa Margherita, September 14th-15th, 2009
Abstract
The year 2009 marks two important anniversaries for all those interested in Japanese studies.It is the 100th anniversary of the introduction of historical avant-gardes in Japan (1909) and the 50th anniversary of the official debut of But?. Mori ?gai’s Japanese translation of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s Manifesto of Futurism (1909) and the first staging of the performance Kinjiki (1959) are symbolically linked as two products of the cultural cross-fertilization between European and Japanese avant-garde.
To celebrate these anniversaries, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice will hold an international symposium on the Japanese avant-garde scenes and their social and cultural impact across the 20th century. A concluding panel will be dedicated to “Japanese dance: Tradition versus contemporarism”.
September 14th, 2009
Morning panel: Avant-garde in Japan/Japan in the Avant-garde
On February 20, 1909,the first Manifesto of Futurism was published on the French newspaper Le Figaro. This event marked the official appearance of Italian Futurism, founded by Milanese poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, and is regarded today as one of the starting points of 20th century international avant-garde. After only three months, Moriogai, the celebrated writer and scholar,was to give on the pages of the magazine Subaru(Pleiad) the first Japanese translation of Marinetti’s Manifesto.
His translation can be considered as the beginning of the reception of European avant-garde in Japan. In the following years, the presentation of Futurism and other European movements such as Cubism, Expressionism and Dada sparked a wide debate in the Japanese press, and drew the attention of many thinkers and artists (such as Yosano Hiroshi, Takamura Kotaro, Kimura Shohachi,Murayama Tomoyoshi and many others) to the latest trends in Western art. This was to exert a profound influence on the young artists and writers of the new generation, and led in the 1920s to the formation of a burgeoning modernist scene.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Marinetti’s Manifesto and of ogai’s translation, so rich in symbolic value as an instance of cultural interaction between Italy and Japan, the Department of East Asian Studies will organize a multi-disciplinary panel on the Japanese avant-garde and on its cultural, social and political contexts.
September 14th, 2009
Afternoon panel:
Butoh: Past and Forward - For the 50 Years’ Anniversary of Butoh
In 1959 the performance Kinjiki was presented by Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Yoshito. Since then, 1959 has been considered the official debut of the avant-garde phenomenon known as Ankoku But?, which strongly influenced European and American dance since the 1980s arousing great interest among the audience and artists, more than in Japan itself.
As Butoh has achieved a great importance also in Italy, it is important to celebrate on the occasion of its 50th anniversary with an academic roundtable this event. In particular, Venice is an ideal stage, considering how all the lectures and workshops, organized in the past years (1999, 2000,2005) have gained a strong echo among students, artists, and professionals.
Noteworthy are as well the several collaborations realized with Biennale Danza Venezia (1999 Ohno, 2000 Sankaijuku, 2007 Murobushi).
In the same evening will be held a performance by Kawaguchi Takao "Good Luck".
September 15th, 2009
Morning panel: The Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism
A concluding panel will aim at evaluating both the elements of coherence and the points of discontinuity among Japanese traditional and contemporary dance. Bonaventura RUPERTI (Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and an expert of Japanese traditional theatre) and TAKEMOTO Mikio (who is the Director of The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University) will illustrate the role of dance in traditional Japanese theatre, while ISHII Tatsuro (who is one of the most important dance critics in Japan and expert of Butoh and Professor at Keio University and Waseda University) and MORISHITA Takashi (one of the closest persons to the Hijikata’s family and responsible of the Hijikata Tatsumi Memorial Archive, Kei? University, Art Center) will exemplify the current state of contemporary dance in Japan as much as the innovative quality which characterized it. Katja CENTONZE (Lecturer of Japanese Language and Literature at University of Calabria, currently a visiting researcher at COE in The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University) will chair the panel, while professor Stanca Scholz-Cionca
(University of Trier) will act as discussant.
The entire event is realized with the generous support of the Japan Foundation.
PROGRAMME
Monday, Sept. 14th, 2009
9.30 Opening ceremony
10.00 - 13.00 Morning panel
Avant-garde in Japan / Japan in the Avant-garde
Discussant:
Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Thomas HACKNER (University of Trier)
Marginal Modernismo - The Historical Avant-gardes in Japan
Pierantonio ZANOTTI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
Some Notes on the Reception of Valentine de Saint-Point in Taisho Japan
Marco DEL BENE (“La Sapienza” University of Rome)
Media, Freedom of Expression, and the Demise of “Taish? Democracy”
Roberta NOVIELLI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
J-Horror: Mythology, Folklore, and Religion
14.30 - 17.00 Afternoon panel
Buto: Past and Forward
Katja CENTONZE (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University-University of Calabria - University of Trier) Bodies shifting from Hijikata’s“Nikutai” to Contemporary “Shintai”: New Generation facing Corporeality
ISHII Tatsuro (Keio University - Waseda University) Body as Object: How could Butoh go beyond Orientalism?
MORISHITA Takashi (Hijikata Tatsumi Archive, Art Center, Keio University) Hijikata Tatsumi in the Early 70s: Toward the Construction of Butoh Notation
Eugenia CASINI ROPA (University of Bologna) A Soul “wearing the Body as a Glove”: German Ausdruckstanz and But?
17.30 - 18.30 Discussion and closing remarks
19.00 Performance
KAWAGUCHI Takao
Good Luck
Tuesday, Sept. 15th, 2009
10.00 - 12.00 Morning panel
The Japanese Dance: Tradition versus Contemporarism
Chair:
Katja CENTONZE (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda University
- University of Calabria - University of Trier)
Discussant:
Stanca SCHOLZ-CIONCA (University of Trier) Transgressing Borders: Noh and
Butoh in Okamoto Akira’s “Mu”
TAKEMOTO Mikio (The Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum at Waseda
University)「舞踊劇としての能−能における舞踊の役割を中心に−」
Bonaventura RUPERTI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)
「歌舞伎と舞踊−舞、踊り、変化」
ISHII Tatsuro (Keio University - Waseda University)
MORISHITA Takashi (Keio University)
12.30 - 13.15 Discussion and
closing remarks
13.15 - 13.30 Closing ceremony
Department of East Asian Studies
Ca' Foscari University - Venice
Palazzo Vendramin ai Carmini
Dorsoduro 3462 - 30123 Venice
www.unive.it/dsao
For more info please contact Pierantonio Zanotti: p.zanotti@unive.it
