Butoh's Quotes

#1. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#2. Oh, I'm not a Berkeleian. I believe my back's against this wall. I believe there's a sten gun over there.

Graham Greene

#3. And God willing, with the force of God behind it, we shall soon experience a world without the United States and Zionism,

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#4. The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain, said Lord Byron,

Shirley Jackson

#5. Nobody gets through life without facing challenges. What's important is how we handle them. Tough times can be excellent opportunities to grow and become a better person.

Sandra Vischer

#6. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#7. The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

Pope John Paul II

#8. I love to read history books, which is where I get my ideas. I also read historical romance for pleasure.

Virginia Henley

#9. The door through which he had glimpsed such wondrous light, he had walked through. He had encountered both beauty and pain. Now he understood that was how it would always be - no matter where he went in the world.

Margi Preus

#10. A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

Jennifer Dunning

#11. Gollum was so interesting to me because he's morally ambivalent, and I love the notion of a quest that is to lose something. Not to gain, but to get rid of something.

Andy Serkis

#12. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata