Katja Centonze is Associate Professor at the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’Foscari University of Venice, where she teaches Japanese Language and Japanese Theatre. She is also Adjunct Researcher at the Tsubouchi Shōyō Memorial Theatre Museum, Waseda University, Tokyo. Her research explores the intersections of corporealities, text and politics in Japan’s performing arts – both traditional and contemporary – as well as in literature, with a particular attention to the 1960s. Among her numerous publications, she edited Avant-Gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butō: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition (Cafoscarina, 2010), and authored Aesthetics of Impossibility: Murobushi Kō on Hijikata Tatsumi (Cafoscarina, 2018).