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“Limitless landscapes", the Spring of the Poets event was the opportunity for rush lovers to call for contributions at the beginning of February. Our choice is contained in this collection : 15 poets and their "limitless landscapes" : http://billets.domec.net/post/2011/05/16/Infinis-paysages-est-publi%C3%A9
 The retail cost of the collection is 5 Euros. Order details and any postal costs are set out on : http://domec.net/?appel=appel#vous_



Preface and cover for the autobigraphical work of the dancer and choreographer Maura Baiocchi : "Butoh Dança Veredas D'alma" ed Palas Athena (1995, in Portuguese).

A painting of the author  on the cover is a tribute to Kazuo Ohno. This preface relates the history of Butoh and the particular context of the creation of Butoh and its theory.
This preface provides answers on understanding why foreign artists have drawn matter from the Butoh experience to question again their own identity.


Introduction to "The Autobiography of Abel Pann" Ed.du Cerf 1996

Pann was a Jewish painter of Russian origin. Born in 1883, he emigrated in 1905 to Paris. He lived at la Ruche and Montparnasse, and attended the famous " École de Paris". He was a cartoonist, a caricaturist and a painter. He emigrated to Jerusalem in 1920 and became "the Bible's only Jewish painter". This introduction provides an opportunity for a brief history of Jewish artists, mainly emigrants from Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th Century in Paris, and an overview of life in the "Holy Land" before the State of Israel was created.


Collaboration on "The Modern Scene" - world encyclopedia of performing arts in the  second half of the 20th century-under the direction of Giovanni Lista, ed Carré and Acte Sud, 1997

Background documentation for chapter XV, "Happening and Performance", and for the text and visual material for Butoh in chapter XVI, "Theatre and Dance Theatre".


"The Courage of Living for Dying" Ed.du Relié, 2000, Albin Michel for Paperback version in 2002.

How do people in good health come to terms with the the idea that one day they are going to die ? Questions on finality, decease, someone else's death and one's own death. This book is the synthesis of chance meetings to collect thoughts for a planned artistic installation, a sound and visual presentation, which took place in 1997 at the Strasbourg Cinébal. The success and public interest in the project have prompted the writing of this book. Meetings with Sogyal Rimpoché, Alessandro Jodorovsky, André Chouraqui among others.



"Psychism and creation" Psychoanalytiques Perspectives, ed Esprit du Temps  2004. Collection of articles under the direction of Céline Masson.

Thoughts on creation by psychoanalysts and a few artists to draw up a metapsychology of creation. "Put your tongue out in the rain" pp 267 to 297. An essay on memory and  corporal identity in Butoh dance.



"Artes cenicas sem Fronteiras" Ed. Anadarco, collection of articles under the direction of Adriana Vaz Ramos.

Text based on the lecture delivered at the Japan Foundation, Sao Paulo on 2 February 2006. "Butoh : a philosophy of perception - an erotisism of relations with the world, an art of non-dance" Pp105-120.
It presents Butoh in the context of avant-garde movements in the post-war world of art, and its specific development since the sixties.


Round table on the occasion of THE "PRIMAVERA" festival of the DESIGN OF ART 1997 in BARCELONA (PDF in french)