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单词 butoh
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butohn.

Brit. /ˈbuːtəʊ/, U.S. /ˈbuˌtoʊ/
Forms: also with capital initial. 1900s– buto, 1900s– butoh.
Origin: A borrowing from Japanese. Etymon: Japanese butō.
Etymology: < Japanese butō dance (8th cent. as butau; from the late 19th cent. chiefly used to denote European forms of dance; < Middle Chinese).The style known as butoh in English is called ankoku butō in Japanese (lit. ‘dance of darkness’) and was developed by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ōno; the first public performance was in 1959. In early use in English sometimes with stress on the second syllable.
A style of Japanese modern dance, typically featuring slow movements and dancers covered in white body paint.
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1978 Dance & Dancers Aug. 37/2 Conceived in Japan 25 years ago, Buto dancing has rapidly established itself as a kind of anti-dance.
1982 Circa No. 7. 13/3 Rational Theatre will be involved in a series of workshops with the Japanese Butoh dance company Sankai Juku.
1996 Spectator 31 Aug. 32/2 Dramatic tension and the exploration of man's dark inner depths should also be the ingredients of butoh, the Japanese theatre art halfway between dance and drama.
2004 New Yorker 12 Apr. 12/2 Maureen Fleming, perhaps the foremost American practitioner of Butoh, specializes in metamorphoses, transforming her body with agonizing slowness.
2012 B. Baird Hijikata Tatsumi & Butoh viii. 218 In so far as butoh has any essence at all, butoh is an art form that demands that artists put themselves into continually new relationships.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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