ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the impact of butoh performances, imagery, and writings on my practice as a visual artist and performer as an example of the impact of butoh on artists outside of Japan. My practice as a photographer and videographer developed both in France and Japan, creating and editing series of pictures alternating with video projects, interrogating the theme of self-portrait using dance, performance, makeup, kimono, ukiyo-e, black and white, superposition of lines and surfaces, framing, blurs, fades, and montage. 1
