Trajal
Read Introduction of “The Revolt of the Body”
- Discuss Butoh in relation to death rituals
- Trajal speaks about Tatsumi Hijikata and his relation to Katherine Dunham
- Trajal speaks about his experience in Georgia when he was 4 years old, his shock at a funeral seeing women shouting to mourn, and his first experience of performance
Showing of proposition
Sharing of the concepts of the archival work
HW: (1) Write lists of the rituals you observe in Varanasi (2) Ask yourself, when is your first experience of performance?