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Wikipedia article on Butoh, a form of Japanese avant-garde dance theater that emerged in the late 1950s. It is characterized by surreal, often disturbing imagery and radical body transformation. This resource has no apparent relevance to AI safety.
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- •Butoh is a Japanese avant-garde dance form originating in the late 1950s
- •It is known for extreme body movements, white body paint, and surreal themes
- •Founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno as a reaction against Western dance
- •Has no discernible connection to AI safety, alignment, or related technical topics
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Post-WWII Japanese dance form
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Butoh ( 舞踏 , Butō ) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance , performance, or movement. Following World War II , butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders, Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno . The art form is known to "resist fixity" [ 1 ] and is difficult to define; notably, founder Hijikata Tatsumi viewed the formalisation of butoh with "distress". [ 2 ] Common features of the art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, and extreme or absurd environments. It is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion. However, with time butoh groups are increasingly being formed around the world, with their various aesthetic ideals and intentions.
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Butoh first appeared in post- World War II Japan in 1959, under the collaboration of Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno , "in the protective shadow of the 1950s and 1960s avant-garde". [ 3 ] A key impetus of the art form was a reaction against the Japanese dance scene then, which Hijikata felt was overly based on imitating the West and following traditional styles like Noh . Thus, he sought to "turn away from the Western styles of dance, ballet and modern", [ 2 ] and to create a new aesthetic that embraced the "squat, earthbound physique... and the natural movements of the common folk". [ 2 ] This desire found form in the early movement of "ankoku butō" ( 暗黒舞踏 ) . The term means "dance of darkness", and the form was built on a vocabulary of "crude physical gestures and uncouth habits... a direct assault on the refinement ( miyabi ) and understatement ( shibui ) so valued in Japanese aesthetics." [ 4 ]
The first butoh piece, Forbidden Colors (禁色, Kinjiki) by Tatsumi Hijikata , premiered at a dance festival in 1959. It was based on the novel of the same name by Yukio Mishima . It explored the taboo of homosexuality and ended with a live chicken being held between the legs of Kazuo Ohno's son Yoshito Ohno, after which Hijikata chased Yoshito off the stage in darkness. Mainly as a result of the audience outrage over this piece, Hijika
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