
2015
Comprising historic archive footage and texts this DVD box enlightens us greatly about Yoshito Ohno's here and now. Butoh has a distinct starting point, namely, in 1959, with Kinjiki , a duet featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoshito Ohno. His father, the legendary Kazuo Ohno created another epoch-making opus in 1977 Admiring La Argentina, with Yoshito Ohno as production manager. These links are no mere coincidence. To date, we've tended to overlook Yoshito Ohno, barely granting him the recognition he merits. Just as dance requires a lengthy gestation period in which to evolve, his dance has finally come into our field of vision, in all its freshness and stark-nakedness, linking Butoh's origins to its zenith, to a point where he now stands at a crossroads.

Yoshito Ohno

Kazuo Ohno

Tatsumi Hijikata

The Masseurs

Butoh: Piercing the Mask

The Naked Summer

Dance of Darkness

The Body, The Expression of a Creature’s True Nature

The Story of a Tree

Kazuo Ohno: Beauty and Strength

Dandy

Rose Color Dance

A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School

Just Visiting This Planet

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

Kazuo Ohno: I Dance Into the Light

Cherry Blossoms

Navel and A-Bomb

Casting a Light on the Dance of Darkness

Horrors of Malformed Men

XXL

Gloss of Darkness

Flesh, Board, and Nails