I'm not sure if it was 45... I heard 40... but the really cool thing is that his son, Yoshihito, introduced him to Hijikatta. Yoshihito was already with Hijikatta.
I saw a solo performance by Yoshihito in Tokyo... the "Portrait of Dorian Gray"... in 1998(?) that he didn't move AT ALL after taking the stage... but over the 45 minutes transformed his emotional gesture facially throughout. It was a truly inspired performance and rather resonates the portrait in your closet mIEKAL. I guess you'll be hanging it again. Kazuo Ohno TRULY inspirational. Sadly, I've really fallen out of touch with Japan since returning here in 2000... I wonder of Kazuo-san? He was at least 93 (when we met at his studio/home, near Yokohama) though I saw him perform 3 or four times earlier. Truly an amazing man. VERY VERY beautiful. I was truly blessed to arrive there completely on the wrong day...(trickster style to the maX) in my confusion about the meeting we'd arranged by phone the day before... for what turned out to be a week early... Without a BLINK they received me and I shared supper with his family... spanning 4 generations. D^ On 15-Jan-07, at 2:43 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: I had a picture of Kazuo Ohno above my writing area for many years... I seem to remember that he started dancing/moving at the age of 45. Guess I need to find the picture & put it back up. ~mIEKAL On Jan 15, 2007, at 2:49 PM, P!^VP 0!Z!^VP wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butoh Of course it is always evolving... changing... and it's interesting to see this "html_performance... but I'm not sure it has anything to do with "Butoh" perse... I personally know Yoshito Ohno, Kazuo Ohno, and really, quite a large number of the original Butoh performance artists (though Tatsuo Hijikatta was dead before I ever got to Japan in 1989... I do know his widow, Motofuji Akiko... and Oikawa Hironobu was very interested in my multi-media performances with Ana... collaborating in a number of multi-mediations). I lived ten years in Japan and studied/played/mentored with them. I think it's fair to say I never did any "Butoh", but I certainly learned and borrowed lots of the "style". Namerigawa P!^VP d^Vizio __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
