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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.
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Cast & Crew
Tatsumi Hijikata
Yoko Ashikawa
Kobayashi Saga
Nimura Momoko
Katsura Mana
Koichi Tamano
Kôichi Satô
Yukio Waguri
Ikko Amamiya
Ryuichi Tachibana
Hanae Naoto
Hiroshi Ono
Frequently Asked Questions
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School was released on January 1, 2003.
The runtime of A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School is 1h 11m.
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School is a Documentary movie.
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School is available to watch. Check streaming platforms and theaters near you.
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School was directed by Misao Arai.
The main cast of A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School includes Tatsumi Hijikata, Yoko Ashikawa, Kobayashi Saga.
A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School is originally in Japanese.