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| List of figures | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Note on names and glossaries | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Butoh Shapeshifters | |
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| Kaze Daruma: the origins of butoh | |
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| Hijikata's butoh | |
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| Nature, mud, and butoh morphology | |
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| Butoh alchemy in global circulation | |
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| Hijikata: a corpse standing desperately upright | |
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| Yoneyama Kunio | |
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| Studying Neue Tanz | |
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| The drug of Ohno | |
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| Tokyo | |
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| New names | |
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| Dancing life: Ohno Kazuo | |
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| Born to dance | |
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| Together and apart | |
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| Together again | |
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| Ohno's international stage | |
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| Ohno is a bridge | |
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| Butoh, community, and healing | |
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| The Words of Hijikata and Ohno | |
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| Hijikata-speak | |
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| The criminal and the fool: writing/living darkness | |
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| Body as spirit: writing/speaking the butoh body | |
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| Being a corpse | |
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| Hijikata's butoh-fu: what is an image? | |
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| Words that dance: Ohno's images | |
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| Spiritual darkness: inside Ohno's studio and Konpaku | |
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| How Ohno prepares: words for the speech of the body | |
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| The Ishikari river's hooked-nose salmon | |
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| Body as universe: Kazuo and Yoshito speak of love and care | |
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| Dances of Death, Sacrifice, and Spirit | |
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| Two butohists: why they dance the way they do | |
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| Dance as experience: shedding the social body | |
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| Challenging modernization | |
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| Kinjiki (Forbidden Colors, 1959) | |
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| Barairo Dansu (Rose Colored Dance, 1965) | |
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| Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body, 1968) | |
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| Note on Natsu No Arashi (Summer Storm, 1973) | |
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| La Argentina Sho (Admiring La Argentina, 1977) | |
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| Suiren (Water Lilies, 1987) | |
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| Interview with Ohno Yoshito - on Suiren | |
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| The future of butoh | |
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| Dance Experiences | |
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| Introduction to metamorphic explorations | |
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| Nakajima Natsu: becoming nothing/ becoming something | |
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| Ohno Yoshito: the patience of not starting | |
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| Yoshioka Yumiko: body resonance | |
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| Morita Itto and Takeuchi Mika: psychosomatics of butoh | |
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| Takenouchi Atsushi's Jinen Butoh | |
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| Frances Barbe and the practice of butoh-fu | |
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| Harada Nobuo: butoh is everything | |
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| Waguri Yukio and Butoh-Kaden CD-Rom | |
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| English glossary of terms | |
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| Japanese glossary of terms | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |