Release Date

01 Jan, 1990

Runtime

01:30: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Body on the Edge of Crisis

"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.

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Actors

Yoko Ashikawa

Akiko Motofuji

Nario Goda

土方巽

Yukio Waguri

麿赤兒

Natsu Nakajima

Sanae Hiruta

大野一雄

田中泯

Ushio Amagatsu

Yoshiyuki Takada

Keiji Morita

Goro Namerikawa

Atsushi Ogata

Masaku Kaita

Toshiyuki Tanigawa

Ko Murobushi

Koichi Tamano

Shusei Asada

Hikaru Otsubo

Crew

Lynn Piasecki

Bonnie Sue Stein

Michael Blackwood

José Montes-Baquer

Bonnie Sue Stein

Leslie Megahey

Christian Blackwood

Michael Blackwood