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David Joshua Jennings: Butoh

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David Joshua Jennings: Butoh
December 10, 2016 – January 4, 2017
Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 6pm

Sanctuary Cultural Arts Center
2525 Burgundy Street
New Orleans, LA 70117
(504) 920-7355
Hours: by appointment


Butoh is a style of Japanese modern dance that resists definition. Beginning in early 2015, David Joshua Jennings began collaborating with students of the Subbody Resonance Butoh school in Dharamshala, India, and over the next few months documented unscripted performances, mostly unannounced and public, around Himachal Pradesh and Rajasthan.

This subversive, avant-garde dance originated in Japan in the late 1950s but has since evolved into an international art form. Butoh is usually performed with white body paint, commonly features grotesque imagery and taboo topics, and often is performed in extreme or absurd environments. The dance itself is said to be a paradoxical process of self-oblivion and self-realization.

In its exploration of the hidden, often unconscious, impulses and emotions latent in the body, and the inseparability of body to elements and influences beyond the skin, Jennings was drawn to Butoh’s acknowledgement of the terror and rapture of human experience, as well as what he saw as its rejection of bourgeois cultural norms and the oppression of reason. To watch a Butoh dance is a shocking and enlightening experience, an axe chop into the frozen, habitual mind. These prints are intended to disrupt and lure viewers into the realm of Butoh’s unfathomability.

About the Artist

David Joshua Jennings’ interest in photography began with and grew alongside his interest in travel. Born in Oklahoma, Jennings spent most of his 20s on the road, traveling through more than 50 countries. During this time his camera served as a means of exploration as well as its justification. Without designs, he documented his journeys and allowed his craft to grow organically through experimentation and error. His photography explores globalization, alienation, desire and cultural dissolution. He lives in New Orleans.

Posted on: Nov 15 2016
Posted in: PhotoNOLA 2016, Exhibitions, Marigny, Alternative Spaces, December 10

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