Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
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"Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis" is a visually striking film portrait shot on location in Japan with the participation of the major Butoh choreographers and their companies. Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. By reestablishing the ancient Japanese connection of dance, music, and masks, and by recalling the Buddhist death dances of rural Japan, Butoh incorporates much traditional theater. At the same time, it is a movement of resistance against the abandonment of traditional culture to a highly organized consumer-oriented society.
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Yoko AshikawaHerself - IntervieweeAkiko MotofujiHerself - IntervieweeNario GodaHimselfTatsumi HijikataHimselfYukio WaguriHimself
Akaji MaroHimselfNatsu NakajimaHerselfSanae HirutaHerself
Kazuo OhnoHimself
Min TanakaHimselfUshio AmagatsuYoshiyuki TakadaKeiji MoritaGoro NamerikawaAtsushi OgataMasaku KaitaToshiyuki TanigawaKo Murobushi
Akaji MaroHimselfNatsu NakajimaHerselfSanae HirutaHerselfKazuo OhnoHimselfMin TanakaHimselfUshio AmagatsuYoshiyuki TakadaKeiji MoritaGoro NamerikawaAtsushi OgataMasaku KaitaToshiyuki TanigawaKo MurobushiReviews
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