Tatsumi Hijikata
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Tatsumi Hijikata (born March 9, 1928 - 1986) is the founder of new genre of mysterious dance performance art called Butoh from Japan. By the late sixties he had begun to develop a new dance, highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of northern Japan home. It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.
Hijikata was a great innovator in movement technique. He was a great master of the use of energy qualities in constructing expressive movement. He would use sounds, paintings, sculptures, and words to construct movement, not exclusively in a formal or literal memetic application, but by integrating these elements via visualization into the nervous system to produce movement qualities that could be very subtle, light, angelic and ghost-like, or demonic, heavy. dark grotesque, violent and extreme.
This use of visualization (triggered and supported by the above mentioned elements) masters sophisticated movement qualities similar in many ways to the Mime System of Jaques Leqoc.