Maquillar los cuerpos/transmutar en movimiento: Reflexiones acerca de las reelaboraciones de la danza butoh y sus máscaras

Abstract

Butoh dance is usually associated with the use of white paint over the bodies. However, the remakes of this theatrical-dancing expression of Japanese avant-garde in Argentine exhibit some fading of this feature. Almost without makeup, bodies increasingly preserve the traits that individualize and particularize them. I propose in this paper a reflection on the possible meanings of the absence or disappearance of makeup. To do this, I am going to develop, from a phenomenological perspective, the concepts of somatic or embodied transmutation and sensory imagination. I am going to describe, based on the results of the ethnography done for my doctoral thesis, those features of the previous body trajectories of the performers that have an impact on in the remakes.