Costume en faceTatsumi Hijikata As the founding father of the radical dance form that he called Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata (1928 1986) is a legendary figure in the history of art and contemporary dance. Though influenced by Western artists and writersthe expressionist dance of Mary Wigman, the writings of Artaud, de Sade, Bataille, and Genet, and the drawings and paintings of Goya, Picasso, Toyen, Beardsley, and othershe was dedicated to the particular experience of

Jahan Khajavi

With depth and breadth

niet-zijn en alles daartussenin

(Soma)tic rituals are a practice of unorthodox steps aimed at breaking us out of the quotidian and into a more political and physical spiritual consciousness of The New Wilderness

These linked in unexpected juxtapositions

The author of twenty poetry books published in Europe

transforming the secret into the explicit

I wonder where / the outstretch lands

ancestral trauma

and skilled vs

following the thrilling trajectory of a great thinker

abstracted out of being – and returned into it