ABSTRACT
Catherine Diverres, a French choreographer and dancer, studied under Ohno Kazuo (1906–2010) in the early 1980s. Although she does not insist on the direct influence of Ohno on her recent work, she choreographed a piece entitled O Sensei in 2012 to pay homage to Ohno after his death in 2010. According to Sylviane Pages, the French dance researcher, there were two different paths that young French choreographers took for their studies in the 1980s. To dance, to choreograph, it is to situate the other, whether it is absent or present. The other is the condition of all movements, of all desires, of all knowledge. Diverres interprets the philosophy of Ohno's butoh as a connection between the dead and the living. Being influenced by this thought, she elaborated the concept of the other in her dance.
