biography
pronunciation:
[hijikahta]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928–86)
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| biography:
| Performance artist, born in Akita province, NW Japan. He was a key figure in the Japanese avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s, and with Kazuo Ohno is credited with the founding of the butoh dance-theatre movement, that draws on and yet refutes traditional Japanese Kabuki and Noh theatre and Western art forms. His 1968 piece Nikutai No Hanran (Rebellion of the Body) is acknowledged as one of the most important productions in the development of butoh. |
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