Takahiko Iimura
Cine Dance: The Butoh of Tatsumi Hijkata
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Original format 8mm
Year 1963-1965
Artist(s) Takahiko Iimura
Running time 23 min
Films
ANMA (1963) 10'
ROSE COLOR DANCE (1965) 13'
Description
Two major 1960s performances by the founder of Butoh dance, Tatsumi Hijikata, with Kazuo Ohno as his principal dance partner. An essential film for understanding the origins of Butoh. (T.I.)
"The black Butoh dance created by Tatsumi Hijikata is closer to the neo-dada movement, adopting its provocative, cynical and absurd forms, rather than to the German expressionist dance with which it is generally associated."
— Nicolas Villodre, curator at the Cinémathèque française, Paris