Source: The Asia-Pacific Journal | Japan Focus Volume 19 | Issue 3 | Number 1 | Article ID 5531 | Feb 01, 2021
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Tsujimura Kazuko and the Body Object

Namiko Kunimoto

Abstract:
Active from the 1960s onward, Tsujimura Kazuko (1941-2004) was an avantgarde dancer who aimed for a “dance without body, without dancing.” This paper examines how Tsujimura sought, unconsciously or consciously, to reveal how the body was harnessed for — and constructed from — production in the increasingly capitalist world of high-economic growth Japan. As we shall see, through her limited, but often tense, movement in dance, in her use of costumes in fragmented installation pieces, and in her social alliances, she sought to undo the notion that the body was an expression of free agency. ...

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