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A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School (2003)
Directed by Misao Arai
Documentary · 1h 11m
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.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- Misao Arai
- Editor
- Hiroshi Sunaga, Endo Chikako
- Producer
- Misao Arai
Details
- Original title
- 夏の嵐
- Release date
- 2003-01-01
- Runtime
- 1h 11m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- JA
- Spoken languages
- Japanese
- Countries
- Japan