Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
- Body on the Edge of Crisis
- 1990-01-01
- Documentary
- Akaji Maro, Min Tanaka, Tatsumi Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno, Hisako Horikawa, Seisaku Ashikawa, Toshiyuki Tanigawa, Shoko Ashikawa, Yoko Ashikawa, Makiko Tominaga, Akiko Motofuji, Uzumi Ashikawa, Ko Murobushi, Koichi Tamano, Sanae Hiruta, Yukio Waguri, Yoshito Ohno, Naoyuki Oguri, Nobutaka Kuwabara, Naruhiko Kadawa, Ea Sola, Ine Yatsushima, Nario Goda, Kinya Tsuruyama, Norio Imanishi, Chiyomi Tamura, Tomoe Shizune, Yukinko Ashikawa, Tetsuo Sakaibara, Ushio Amagatsu, Fumie Hippo, Ismau Ohsuka, Mutsuo Tanaka, Christine Quoiraud, Katsuyoshi Yamamura, Karuko Aiyama, Frank Van De Ven, Hikaru Otsubo, Tsuruko Noguchi, Francois Evangilisti, Keiji Morita, Masaku Kaita, Takako Suzuki, Haruko Kudo, Arawakasyu, Kasumi Muraki, Hideki Nakazato, Yoichi Mori, Kao Arahata, Megumi Ashikawa, Sadahiko Irisawa, Natsu Nakajima, Yoshiyuki Takada, Goro Namerikawa, Yuri Sakurai, Yumiko Saeki, Ritsu Minatama, Torio Nogi, Yukara Nakai, Harumi Kitaguchi, Tess de Quincy, Takeru Kono, Atsushi Ogata, Shusei Asada, Satomi Kawakami, Norikazu Sato, Sei Nagatsuka, Yasunari Tamai, Andres Salgado, Kyoko Komatsu, Mito Ashikawa
- 1 h. 30 min.
- 8.0/10
- 2
- United States of America
- Michael Blackwood Productions
Overview:
"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.