Hijikata tatsumi biography of rory
Hijikata was acting and dancing in a series of photos that were only destined to exist within the series that Hosoe created because he made it a limited edition.!
The artist's career retrospective, curated by Rory Padeken, will open at the Denver Art Museum in At Sidecar, collaborative work with.
Tatsumi Hijikata
Japanese choreographer (1928–1986)
Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽, Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 – January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh.[1] By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern Japan home.[2] It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.
Life and Butoh
Tatsumi Hijikata was born Kunio Yoneyama on March 9, 1928 in Akita prefecture in northern Japan, the tenth in a family of eleven children.[3] After having shuttled back and forth between Tokyo and his hometown from 1947, he moved to Tokyo permanently in 1952.
He claims to have initially survived as a petty criminal through acts of burglary and robbery, but since he was known to embellish details of his life, it is not clear how much his account can be trus