Kazuo Stands: A Case Study in Auto-Ethnography and Practice-Based Research
Feb 22, 2011
12pm Kaufman room 160
This presentation will display and critique the author's transdisciplinary methodology of butoh dance theater practice and scholarship, exploring the mechanics of and socio-cultural influences on the scholar-artist entity. As a modality of historical, cultural, political, and aesthetic contextualization for his performances, the process of practice-based research-- or rather research-based practice-- is central to his "dual" identity. The author will perform and engage his "scholar" and "artist" identities as a false binary in a dialectic process of auto-ethnographic revelation, placing his artistic and intellectual influences in tension with his psycho-physiological desires and instinctual, improvisational dancing body.
Michael Sakamoto is an interdisciplinary artist active in Butoh-based dance, contemporary theater, media art, and photography. He has performed and/or exhibited in Japan, Thailand, Mexico, and throughout Europe and North America and received numerous grant awards, including from the Japan Foundation, Meet the Composer, and Asian Cultural Council. Michael has taught college/university-level classes and workshops, including at California Institute of the Arts, Chiang Mai University, and many others. He is on faculty in the MFA-Interdisciplinary Arts program at Goddard College, holds a Dance MFA from UCLA, and is a PhD student in Culture and Performance at UCLA.
Website:www.michaelsakamoto.
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