Originally recorded in 1973 at Westside Auditorium, Kyoto University, Japan; video version produced 2003. "The final performance"--Container. Hijikata Tatsumi, Kobayashi Saga, Waguri Yukio, Yoko Ashikawa. Special features: video interview with film scholar Donald Richie; still gallery.
Summary:
"Ankoku Butoh (Dance of Darkness) is the avant-garde dance form born out of the devastation of post WWII Japan but also influenced by Dadaism, Surrealism and Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty. Its legendary founder, Hijikata Tatsumi, is the supreme figure in the last half-century of Japan's experimental culture, an inspirational presence there for artists, choreographers, filmmakers, musicians and writers. His final performance with his dancers, Summer Storm, took place in 1973 at the Westside Auditorium of Kyoto University..."--Container.
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