event highlights
Hip-Hop Japan Remix Mixer
DJ Ian Condry at the Enormous Room, Cambridge MA
Come hear the latest Japanese hip-hop, and meet others interested in Cool Japan!
Free
(In conjunction with Beat Research [www.beatresearch.com])
Date: Monday September 28, 2009
Time: 10:00 PM - 1:00 AM
Location:
The Enormous Room
569 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
 Avant-garde Dance Butoh |
"Hip Hop and Tokusatsu (Special Effects Films) Robots: Expanding the Language of the Body in the Japanese Avant-garde Dance Butoh"
Prof. Bruce Baird (U Mass, Amherst)
Talk and discussion (with free pizza lunch)
TOPIC: The avant-garde dance form butoh has both fascinated and bewildered audiences who have been struck by its power, but quite unable to understand it. What could this esoteric dance form have to do with popular culture?
BIO: Bruce Baird received his Ph.D from the university of Pennsylvania in 2005 and now teaches Japanese theater, cinema, philosophy and manga and anime at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is currently working on a book on the Japanese avant-garde dance butoh.
Date: Tuesday November 17, 2009
Time: 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Location: MIT 4-364