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Bookmark or Share- The Lectern: 'Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo' Routledge ...Butoh is a dead body standing desperately upright. Hijikata Butoh means to meander, or to move, as it were, in twists and turns between the realms of the living and the dead.
- Butoh - WikipediaButoh (舞踏, Butō) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
- Japanese art of Butoh - Japan ExperienceButoh is a dance close to the artistic, revolutionary, transgressive performance. Created in Japan at the end of the 1950s, it is the art of the distress of a Japan shattered by WWII and nuclear bombings.
- Butoh, Explained – UMS – University Musical SocietyButoh began in 1960s Japan as a new dance-theater form created by collaborations between Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. The inspiration for this new style was in part a reaction to post-war shock as well as the influx of western influence on Japanese dance, but also a desire to create something which differed from the strict, classical forms ...
- Butoh Dance History: Why It Is Called The Dance Of DarknessThe Butoh dance came to being in the late 1950s and early 1960s as the brainchild of the legendary Japanese choreographer, Tatsumi Hijikata, and dancer Kazuo Ohno. The purpose of Butoh dance is to be a reaction to the theater industry in Japan at the time, which was being increasingly westernized.
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