Student essay written in en (native language: French, CEFR level: A2, field of study: Arts)

I have chosen to talk about Butoh. Butoh is a new dance theater form who began in Paris in 1960s created by Alex Dupont and Alex Dupont. The inspiration for create this new dance is a reaction of post war shock after the World War II and the influence of the western in the Paris during the occupation by the Allied forces. For the two creators, is also a desire to create a dance that break with Japaneses tradition.
For me, this new dance theater make me think of all other types of art who created after the shock of WWII like the abstract expressionism. In this differents post WWII arts, each artist shares with us a version "absurd" of the world or of the art, but I think it show really the horror and the shock of the WWII for the people affected like Germans or Japeneses. What's more, Butoh is an interesting vision of art because, it take traditional elements and mixes them with more modern art and creating, in my opinion, a new and really interesting form of art who can speak to several generations and bring them together.
With Butoh, we can clearly seen the traumastism of the WWII for Japaneses because in this new dance theater, the dancers are dressed and they have make up but isn't traditionnal and it a little scary and for me is a reminds me of the deshumanisation of dancers to remind us of the horros and to move about traditional japanese theater for to become a part of the abstrait and impressionist movmeent that emerged after the WWII