Butoh dance kazuo ohno biography
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Kazuo Ohno and the spirit of butoh dance
Kazuo Ohno was born in and died in During his last public performance he was years old. Together with Tatsumi Hijikata he is considered the co-founder of butoh dance. Tatsumi Hijikata was bewitched bygd Kazuo Ohno&#;s dance when he attended one of his performances as a spectator in It was Kazuo Ohno who brought butoh dance to the world together with his son Yoshito Ohno.
Life of Kazuo Ohno
Kazuo Ohno butoh makeup
Kazuo Ohno studied dance even before participating as a soldier in World War II, during which he was also a prisoner of war. Upon his return, he began working as a physical education teacher, an activity he would continue to pursue until the age of
Despite a year hiatus from the stage, Kazuo Ohno never stopped dancing, teaching dance and learning from dance itself. His teachers had introduced him to German expressionist dance. One of his myths was the famous dancer Antonia Mercé &#;La Argentina&#;, to whom he
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Butoh, Explained
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What is Butoh? In a word, dance-theater&#;
History of Butoh
Butoh began in s Japan as a new dance-theater struktur 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 of Kabuki and Nōh theater. The two Kanji characters that form Butoh (舞踏) translate to dance and step, although it was originally called ankoku butoh (暗黒舞踏), &#;dance of darkness&#;. Because the begrepp ‘butoh’ had traditionally been associated with Western or non-Japanese dance forms, this naming reversed expectations about the style and today butoh has come to be recognized as a one of uniquely Japanese origin.
The dance itself is difficult to define, as its founders were not teachers of a method, but commonly used are slow movements, vit body paint, a
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Biography
Kazuo Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, on October 27 in His father, the head of a fishermen's cooperative, spoke Russian and went to fish all over to Kamchatka. His mother was good at cooking European cuisine and playing Japanese zither with thirteen strings. She also plalyed organ and her children often sang to her organ.
When Kazuo was at junior high school, he was sent to one of his relatives, Shiraishi, in Akita prefecture to live with them. Shiraishi family didn't have any children. At Odate junior high school Kazuo belonged to a track-and-field events club and established a new record in the prefecture. In Kazuo entered the Japan Athletic College. A poor student as he was, a superintendent of a dormitory took him to the Imperial Theater to see a performance by the Spanish dancer Antonia Merce, known as "La Argentina," .La Argentina was also known as "the Queen of the Castanets" and she innovated 20th century Spanish dance. Spanish poet Garcia L