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Tatsumi Hijikata

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Tatsumi Hijikata was a Japanese choreographer who lived from 9 March 1928 to 21 January 1986 and founded the genre of dance performance art known as Butoh. By the late 1960s he had developed a highly choreographed style using stylized gestures drawn from his own childhood memories of his home region in northern Japan, and it is this style that is most often associated with Butoh by audiences outside Japan.

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1959 1
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Source Wikipedia: Tatsumi Hijikata
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1. Wikipedia: Tatsumi Hijikata
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    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.
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    He undertook his first Ankoku Butoh performance, Kinjiki, in 1959
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Wikidata Q2266040, class allow-list match (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926 resolve_missing)View the Source
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