PREFACE TO 2018 RE-ISSUE, Sondra Fraleigh INTRODUCTION BUTOH SHAPESHIFTERS Kaze Daruma : the origins of butoh Hijikata¿s butoh Nature, mud, and butoh morphology Butoh alchemy in global circulation Hijikata: a corpse standing desperately upright Yoneyama Kunio Studying Neue Tanz The drug of Ohno Tokyo New names Dancing life: Ohno Kazuo Born to dance Together and apart Together again Ohno¿s international stage Ohno is a bridge Butoh, community, and healing THE WORDS OF HIJIKATA AND OHNO Hijikata-speak The criminal and the fool: writing/living darkness Body as spirit: writing/speaking the butoh body Being a corpse Hijikata¿s butoh-fu : what is an image? Words that dance: Ohno¿s images Spiritual darkness: inside Ohno¿s studio and Konpaku How Ohno prepares: words for the speech of the body The Ishikari river¿s hooked-nose salmon Body as universe: Kazuo and Yoshito speak of love and care ¿ DANCES OF DEATH, SACRIFICE, AND SPIRIT Two butohists: why they dance the way they do Dance as experience: shedding the social body Challenging modernization Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors, 1959) Barairo Dansu (Rose Colored Dance, 1965) Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body, 1968) Note on Natsu No Arashi (Summer Storm, 1973) La Argentina Sho (Admiring La Argentina, 1977) Suiren (Water Lilies, 1987) Interview with Ohno Yoshito ¿ on Suiren The future of butoh DANCE EXPERIENCES Introduction to metamorphic explorations Nakajima Natsu: becoming nothing/ becoming something Ohno Yoshito: the patience of not starting Yoshioka Yumiko: body resonance Morita Itto and Takeuchi Mika: psychosomatics of butoh Takenouchi Atsushi¿s Jinen Butoh Frances Barbe and the practice of butoh-fu Harada Nobuo: butoh is everything Waguri Yukio and Butoh-Kaden CD-Rom English glossary of terms Japanese glossary of terms.