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Tatsumi Hijikata | |
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| 土方 巽 | |
 Tatsumi Hijikata (left) and Sada Abe (right) in 1969. | |
| Born | March 9, 1928 |
| Died | January 21, 1986 (aged 57) |
| Known for | Inventor of Butoh |
| Movement | Butoh |
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.
- ^ cf. International Encyclopedia of Dance, vol.3, 1998, pp.362-363 ISBN 0-19-517587-5
- ^ Baird, Bruce (2012). Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. doi:10.1057/9781137012623. ISBN 978-1-349-29858-7.