Butoh, Dance Darkness The popularity of Japanese

BUTOH IS NOT TRADITIONAL dance, not modern and not contemporary. Many people take the Japanese Butoh dance is darkness. Butoh movement expression is reverence (or protest) on the form of a life back on zero.

After World War II with the destruction Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, the multidimensional crisis in terms of human life, morality, and trust to God. Butoh is a dance that the flow of birth and have the usual movement of the body distortion, dismiss the body of traditional ideas about beauty, but back to the natural beauty of the organic. Butoh for all forms of the body is perfect, the lame, the eye, which make the body lower, who do not have hands.

Butoh important aspect is that one object into another. Form of art is not important flexibility beauty and body such as dancers or opera-dancers Latin dancers, but a mix between the elements of theater, dance, and pantomime. Is also a Butoh dance of discovery. This search feature is a Butoh artist calculations compared with the beautiful movement in response to manipulate the audience expected. Butoh is a dance-what is, very natural, and organic.

Butoh dancers are also inspired from the German Mary Wigman and Harald Krautzberg that gives freedom of creativity. Contribute Western writers such as Genet, Artaud de Sade, and then read by groups of Butoh and Butoh begin to make known. Surealisme and is a source of inspiration Dadaisme other Butoh.

Tatsumi Hijikata, the creator of Butoh, a unique method to create choreography that is in the making and realize imaji through physical words. Words is known as a Butoh-fu in Japanese means numbers Butoh. Words such as poetry, but that in each word represents a specific form of dance, movement, and the relation between body and space.

This method was developed around 1972 until 1974 when Hijikata created the working group as a 27 night season 4 or a small performance in other Asbetos-kan. Because of Butoh-fu is not popular in the community, the process choreography Hijikata not terpublikasi in a long time. Butoh performance and well outside Japan, but few are talking about Butoh choreography.

Yukio Waguri is a direct disciple of Tatsumi Hijikata and dancers at the core Asbetos-kan Hijikata during the years 1972 to 1978 that have been written with the words Hijikata while he was in the process of choreography. After over a quarter century of experience as a dancer in the studio Hijikata, Yukio decided to create a master work as a freelance choreographer.

In addition to a number of notes, he selected 88 pieces Butoh-fu, which is divided in 7 to the world through personal and interpretation and prepared the CD-ROM in 2 languages (Japanese and English). This material was published in 1998 and sold in demand over the Internet until now.