A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School

Overview

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance form is thought to have been founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, who both created and performed in butoh pieces from the late 1950’s - through the early 1970’s. In butoh, the style of movement is extremely stylized and deliberate, vacillating between slow and sharp, expressing feelings of dread, sexualization, violence, calmness, birth and “creatureness” among other things. This performance of Summer Storm was originally recorded in 1973 at Westside Auditorium, Kyoto University, Japan, and was Hijikata’s last public performance before his death in 1986 with Butoh of Dark Spirit School. Video version produced in 2003.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 1, 2003

Original language

Japanese

Spoken languages

Japanese

Countries

Japan

Cast

Nimura Momoko,Ryuichi Tachibana,Kôichi Satô,Yukio Waguri,Hiroshi Ono,Ikko Amamiya,Kobayashi Saga,Koichi Tamano,Katsura Mana,Hanae Naotoand 2 more

Director

Misao Arai

Producer

Misao Arai

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt3743538