IN PRINT
BUTOH FU
Butoh Fu is a collaborative project with photographer Sean Deckert culminating in a hand-made saddle stitched photography zine. The book contains photographic explorations into the concepts of Butoh, specifically its coined nickname “the Dance of Utter Darkness.” We both wanted this exchange to create something that captured the tangibility trapped in the thickness of time. As if it could only be seen under a specific gaze, as if it was coming from inside the viewers head; something dark had been there all along, and we are given permission to see.
SOMETHING CALLED BUTOH
In conjunction with Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio, Tasumi Hijikata Archive at Keio University Art Center, and supported by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture), SOMETHING CALLED BUTOH was published in March 2020 as a visual and literary report on worldwide Butoh practitioners in order to capture a glimpse of the form’s current global impact and meaning.
Caroline is featured in this coffee table book as one of the contemporary Butoh dancers creating works outside of Japan, and shares her thoughts on her own practice as well as the possibilities surrounding preservation and archival of the form.