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Natura e paesaggio nella performance butō

Abstract

This essay investigates the relationship between body and landscape in butō performance, taking it as the structural principle of the practice and as the key to interpreting its aesthetic and ontological specificity. Starting from the theoretical and operational elaborations of Hijikata Tatsumi and the subsequent variations of the discipline, the performer's body is analysed as a surface traversed by material, climatic and temporal forces that determine its posture, rhythm and quality of presence. Through the examination of theoretical sources, testimonies and case studies, the essay aims to demonstrate how butō articulates a performative ecology in which body and environment participate in the same process of co-emergence, redefining the perceptual, spatial and temporal assumptions of contemporary performance.