Tatsumi Hijikata

Tatsumi Hijikata
土方 巽
Tatsumi Hijikata (left) and Sada Abe (right) in 1969.
Born(1928-03-09)March 9, 1928
DiedJanuary 21, 1986(1986-01-21) (aged 57)
Known forInventor of Butoh
MovementButoh

Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽, Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 – January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh.[1] 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.[2] It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.

  1. ^ cf. International Encyclopedia of Dance, vol.3, 1998, pp.362-363 ISBN 0-19-517587-5
  2. ^ Baird, Bruce (2012). Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. doi:10.1057/9781137012623. ISBN 978-1-349-29858-7.