Masahiro Kobayashi

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Masahiro Kobayashi completed the doctoral course at Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine in 1992.

Title / Publisher / Year Published

• Yamai no Shiza /（Perspectives on Disease）/（coauthored with editor Yonezo Nakagawa, Medicus Shuppan Publishers, 1989）
• Yamai-ron no Genzaikei /（The Present Form of Studies on Illness）/（Seikyusha, 1993）
• 'I no Chi` no Taiwa /（Dialogue: Wisdom of Medicine - a discussion with Yonezo Nakagawa）/（Jimbun Shoin, 1995）
• Rinsho suru Geijutsugaku /（Critique and Art）/（Showado, 1999）

Throughout the '80s, Masahiro Kobayashi participated each year as a lecturer in butoh group Byakko-sha's Kumano retreat workshops. He became interested in various kinds of dance （especially butoh） and began writing criticism.
In the '90s, he became especially active in research and criticism concerned with kabuki and Nihon Buyoh （traditional Japanese dance）, which he first saw at the age of three.
Currently, Kobayashi is continuing research of combined body expression forms that include medical and welfare concerns （e.g., dance/movement therapy）.

The problem is language. There are more and more after-show discussions these days, partly because we seem to need to transform the body of dance back into language. Is this a happy thing for dance…