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Theatre of Revulsion
- TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2013 (T220)
- pp. 52-58
- Article
- Additional Information
Published for Paris’s 1985 Butô Festival, Jean Baudrillard’s essay is important to the history of butoh. Responding to dancemakers Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobushi, Baudrillard employs three main descriptors: revulsion, convulsion, and repulsion. The dancer shifts from animal to mineral, while the body captures or draws into itself the surrounding space, before violently ejecting it.