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Akaji Maro (麿 赤児, Maro Akaji, born February 23, 1943) is a Japanese actor, Butoka, and theater director. He was born in Sakurai, Nara and is the founder of Dairakudakan. One of his sons is the film director Tatsushi Ōmori; another is the actor Nao Ōmori.
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. 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. It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.
Tatsumi Hijikata was born in 1928, March 9 in the Akita region of northern Japan, the tenth in a family of eleven children, as Yoneyama Kunio. After having shuttled back and forth between Tokyo and his hometown from 1947, he moved to Tokyo permanently in 1952, the year in which the American Occupation of Japan ended. He claims to have initially survived as a petty criminal through acts of burglary and robbery, but as he was known to embellish details of his life, it is not clear how much his account can be trusted. At the time, he studied tap, jazz, flamenco, ballet and German expressionist dance (Nobutoshi Tsuda). He undertook his first Ankoku Butoh performance, Kinjiki, in 1959, using a novel by Yukio Mishima as the raw input material for an abrupt, sexually-inflected act of choreographic violence which stunned its audience. At around that time, Hijikata met three figures who would be crucial collaborators for his future work: Yukio Mishima, Eikoh Hosoe, and Donald Richie. In 1962, he and his partner Motofuji Akiko established a dance studio, Asbestos Hall, in the Meguro district of Tokyo, which would be the base for his choreographic work for the rest of his life; a shifting company of young dancers gathered around him there.
http://www.arte.tv/tracks Maître du buto, danse japonaise née au lendemain de l'apocalypse nucléaire, Akaji Maro a produit une cinquantaine de spectacles tout en faisant plusieurs apparitions au cinéma - en gangster chez Takeshi Kitano (L'été de Kikujiro) ou en parrain yakusa dans Kill Bill de Quentin Tarantino. Voyagez dans les archives et redécouvrez les meilleurs reportages de l?émission Tracks, diffusée sur ARTE des années 90 à nos jours. Poursuivez votre very good trip sur : http://www.arte.tv/tracks Abonnez-vous à notre chaîne : https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEvideos?sub_confirmation=1 Retrouvez Tracks sur les réseaux sociaux : - sur FB : http://facebook.com/tracksarte - sur twitter : http://twitter.com/tracks_ARTE Date de la première diffusion : 17.09.2012
Rencontre avec Akaji Maro à l'issue du spectacle " Symphonie M " par la Compagnie Dairakudakan à la MCJP de Paris Extrait final de l'Interview mené par Aya Soejima & Jean-Marc Adolphe : au sujet du Butô d'Akaji Maro & son enfance de l'Art !... Maison du Japon le samedi 23 novembre 2013 Liens : http://mcjp.fr/francais/spectacles/dairakudakan-779/dairakudakan-895 http://www.theothea.com/page335.htm#dairakudakan
Akaji Maro ist eine lebende Legende! Seit 40 Jahren frönt der Japaner mit seiner eigenen Truppe Dairakudakan der Parodie und der übertriebenen Groteske. Sein Ausdrucksmittel ist der Butoh-Tanz, der im von der Atombombe traumatisierten Nachkriegsjapan entstand und seine Inspiration aus dem Shintoismus, aber auch aus dem absurden Theater von Ionesco und Kafka schöpft. Mehr dazu: http://tracks.arte.tv/de/kleiner-crashkurs-sachen-provokation-mit-einem-japanischen-endzeit-meister-akaji-maro Der Very Good Trip geht hier weiter: http://www.arte.tv/tracks Abonniere unserem Youtube-Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/TracksARTEde?sub_confirmation=1 Besuche TRACKS in den sozialen Netzwerken: - Facebook: http://facebook.com/tracksarte - Twitter: http://twitter.com/tracks_de
Akaji Maro, el actor y danzante de Butoh, Director de grupo Dairakudakan, llegó a México para presentar su obra Hai no Hito (Hombre de Ceniza) en la sala de Miguel Cobarrubias UNAM. Akaji Maro http://www.japonartesescenicas.org/danza/personajes/akajimaro.html http://performingarts.jp/E/art_interview/0506/1.html Dairakudakan http://www.dairakudakan.com/ Música Mexican Rock - Yukio Hashi Como eta Akasaka - Los Indios Fotos : "Haino hito - Hombre de cenizas" Sala Miguel Cobarrubias, CCU, oct 2012 Miho Hagino
Using contemporary footage of leading Butoh performers, this documentary presents the history of the development of butoh dance, interviews the creator of this Japanese modern dance form, Tatsumi Hijikata and other artists and explores the cultural significance of the Butoh dance form in Japan. ______________________________________________ Documentário de 1991 sobre a historia do Butô dirigido por Richard Moore com a participação de: Nourit Masson-Sékiné, Yoko Ashikawa, Akaji Maro, Akiko Motofuji, Nario Goda, Tatsumi Hijikata, Yukio Waguri, Kazuo Ohno, Sanka Juku, Dai Rakuda Kan, Byakko-sha, Muteki-sha, Maijuku, Hakutobo.
BUTOH Body on the Edge of Crisis a film by Michael Blackwood (1990, 89 minutes, color) Website: http://www.michaelblackwoodproductions.com/md_butoh.php featuring: Min Tanaka and Maijuku; Yoko Ashikawa and Hakutobo; Akaji Maro and Dai Rakuda Kan; Kazuo Ohno; Isamu Ohsuka and Byakko-sha; Natsu Nakajima and Muteki-sha; Sankaijuku; and Tatsumi Hijikata Although Butoh is often viewed as Japan's equivalent of modern dance, in actuality it has little to do with the rational principles of modernism. Butoh is a theater of improvisation which places the personal experiences of the dancer on center-stage. The dancer is used as a medium to his or her inner life, but not for the portrayal of day to day existence. A Dionysian dance of nudity, eroticism, and sexuality, Butoh's scale of expression ra...
Besides being one of the most sought after character actors in Japanese film, with roles in Takeshi Kitano's Kikujiro, Seijun Suzuki's Zigeunerweisen and Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1, Akaji Maro is also a world-renowned butoh dancer and choreographer. Butoh, an avant-garde dance form created by legendary performer Tatsumi Hijikata in the late 1950's, has gone from its underground roots in Tokyo to packing theatres in Europe and North America. Maro, one of Hijikata's protégés, and his dance troupe Dairakudakan have played a crucial role in this spread of butoh dance across the globe. Each summer Maro and the members of Dairakudakan invite both professional dancers and curious amateurs to participate in an intimate dance retreat where they receive a crash course in the philosophy...
Hombre de cenizas Pieza del Maestro Maro Akaji con la compañía Dairakudakan Temptenshiki que se presentó en la Sala Miguel Covarrubias el 29 de octubre de 2012 Entrevista con Maro Akaji y Espartaco Martínez Realización: Jaime Soriano y Omar Soriano López Producción: DanzaNet TV México 2012
Butoh dance performed by Goldens from Dairakudakan in Koenji Daidogei(Street Performance) Festival held in Koenji, Tokyo, Japan. on April 26, 2014. Dairakudakan is a Japanese renowned Butoh performance group founded by Akaji Maro.