Hayato KOSUGE (hamlet@a3.keio.jp) is professor of Foreign Languages and Liberal Arts, Keio University, Tokyo. He earned BA and MA degrees in English literature at Keio University, and finished doctoral course in 1993 at Keio. His research interests include the Japanese underground movement of the 1960s and 1970s, with a focus on Butoh. He is involved in the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive in Keio University Art Centre, and is a research fellow at the Research Institute for Digital Media and Content, Keio University. He is the project leader of the research group, Portfolio Butoh. He is also interested in English Tudor drama mainly focusing on Shakespearean dramaturgy. Regarding Shakespeare not as canonical but as material sources, he has been considering the relationship between the dramatic conventions and the cultural context, and the influences and contrasts of performance between East and West. Among his many publications, he is the editor of Fuhai to Saisei (Corruption and Regeneration), and coauthor of Shintai I Bunka-ron (Body, Medicine, and Culture). He is visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge in 1996-98, and Stanford University in 2003. He will be in the position of the Director of Keio Research Center for Liberal Arts from October 2014.
Peter Eckersall (ed), Helena Greham (ed), Hayato Kosuge et all (Part:Joint Work, Chap. 68 AGAINST STAGING APOCALYPTIC DISASTERS WITH BUTOH DANCE: Ohno Yoshito’s Flower and Bird/ Inside and Outside)
Routledge Mar 2019 ISBN:978-1138303485
The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance
KOSUGE HAYATO Edited by Bruce Baird, Rosemary Candelario (Part:Contributor, Chap. 23. The Expanding Universe of Butoh: the Challenge of Bishop Yamada in Hoppo Butoh-ha and Shiokubi (1975))
Routledge Aug 2018 ISBN:978-1138691094
Bishop and Hoppo Butoh-ha accepted the challenge of presenting their butoh as site-specific, rural performances. While one might consider his experiment in actualizing Hijikata’s mythic northern butoh in the real world to ultimately have been a fa...
演劇を問う、批評を問う――ある演劇研究集団の試み
KOSUGE HAYATO (Part:Contributor, 第1部第7節『リチャード三世』をめぐって pp. 120-33)
Hayato KOSUGE (Keio University), Ken HAGIWARA (Meiji University), Mariko MIYAGAWA (University of Tokyo), Rina TANAKA (Meiji University), Katherine MEZUR (University of California) The Others Feb 2018 - Today
With the rapid development of international transport, information technology and international festivals, many people all over the world have more chances to see performance works related to Japan. We can see that different images of “Japanese bo...
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