Tatsumi Hijikata was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh. By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern Japan home.
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Horrors of Malformed Men
Blind Woman's Curse
Orgies of Edo
Love and Crime
Himiko
Magino Village: A Tale
Evil Spirits of Japan
Navel and A-Bomb
Daring Girls
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Dance of Darkness
Evil Spirits in the Darkness
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Rose Color Dance
Tatsumi Hijikata
Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength
Kaze no keshiki
The Masseurs
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School
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Tatsumi Hijikata was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh. By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern Japan home. It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.
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