Flowerbird Butoh: A Way of Life
2015-Jan-01
1h 25m
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Documentary
Overview
Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting point, namely, in 1959, with Kinjiki , a duet featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoshito Ohno. His father, the legendary Kazuo Ohno created another epoch-making opus in 1977 Admiring La Argentina, with Yoshito Ohno as production manager. These links are no mere coincidence. To date, we've tended to overlook Yoshito Ohno, barely granting him the recognition he merits. Just as dance requires a lengthy gestation period in which to evolve, his dance has finally come into our field of vision, in all its freshness and stark-nakedness, linking Butoh's origins to its zenith, to a point where he now stands at a crossroads.

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The Masseurs
1963-Dec-31
Dance of Darkness
1989-Jan-01
Dandy
1988-Sep-22
Rose Color Dance
1965-Mar-01
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School
2003-Jan-01
Just Visiting This Planet
1991-Sep-05
The Naked Summer
2008-Jan-19
Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength
2001-Jan-01
Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light
2004-Nov-20
The Body, The Expression of a Creature’s True Nature
2020-Jan-07
The Story of a Tree
2020-Jan-01

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