Butoh Performance at Tokyo Gallery (Part 1)

[CaneyheadPictures]

Wonderful performance. To see a butoh protest of art censorship check out Whiteout: Butoh for BLU on Vimeo.

[gentecg]

Butt oh! Not Butoh.

[extrememaxxxman]

wow. this is probably my favorite performance i've come across on youtube so far. it's like he's swimming through the air...each movement getting closer and closer to him standing up. just, wow.

[mariebbbr666]

Is butoh choreographed? I'm starting to get it, but it seems completely improvised.

[solerevolutions]

just incredible...



[solerevolutions]

just incredible...

[Chino2048]

Very good work. I wonder if any of this is performed in Miami's Art Design District in Miami, FL. It would make a great exhibition for the area.

[1g0g]

хорошо!-

[donauto]

it's the perfect dance for a disco 

[amethyst7745]

each movement is apart of a long and fluid meditation for him... wow.... i dont think that a technically advanced modern dancer could have accomplished this... it isnt just about the movements and the choreography.... its about being fully concious and fully present in the NOW.... deep

[Mzisi]

What a beautiful beautiful man.... my GOD!!!

[jhordan77]

Brilliance!!!

[MERSHITEISE]

what a control, what a concentration.

[danzeaholic2008]

I love how the performer can make the human body into and art form. Movement needs to be more natural in the dance world and Butoh does it beautifully. I would love to see this one day. Butoh needs to make it's way down the eastern sea bord :) loved it. keep of the great work.

[asktohal]

GR8 !!! sometime i see a Bacon painting moving

[Ladybyron100]

Beautiful..like being reborn

[mattingbeast]

shadow plays a very interesting complementary role in this performance

[Mzisi]

@mattingbeast omg... i thought the very same thing and thought for sure i'd be the only one to think so

[ansaka12]

really good

[sophiejew]

this is the fist butoh performance i've seen and it's wierdly fascinating.. i love it ^^ especially the way he has complete control over evrey part of his body

[Jozefien12]

This is art, thanks for sharing it.

Teun

[xrisUT]

Loved it! Splendid work altogether.

[Sc6h12o6]

Thank you very much!!!

[RussellHiGGS]

Fuck. I had actually forgotten just how much I adore butoh.

[yacoomar]

q podre!!!

[aguasbuenas2008]

This is a disgrace to butoh! The median is supposed to be entirely pure and bare for the earth to see. This impostor is wearing garments! This is not butoh! This is an abomination!

[kooorga]

jesus. aren't you taking this a bit too catholic? abomination is a word normally used by people who burn other people on stakes.

[xXxnerdlovexXx]

Dancers of butoh can be naked or semi-naked

[eratocharter]

Hijikata-san wore clothes, my dear. As did many who came after him.

[HarlsBabe]

butoh dance is supposed to be done nude

[eratocharter]

HarlsBabe - don't be ridiculous. Some of the most famous Butoh performers, including the originals, wore clothing.

[davidtitterington]

This is really good butoh, I think.

[alexisgelpi]

it's becouse this is a dance for the bones, they say that in butoh dance you're dancing the corpse, the dead body.. or something like that.. i't very beautyful actually, not using your muscules, or using them in a very low rate.. i'm takin' some classes of it, it's not like any other dance i know.. altough, rather alike the afro movements..

[rhosej]

whatever.... this is ffucking ggay.... (notice i added a word for each, so ya'll can read it, ahhahaa)

[iTop90]

I'm studying this kind of Theatre in Drama right now, I think it's very interesting, creepy, though :P

[Sar0z]

same here ;o i have a preformance in two days. about this though, i dont think ill ever be able to dance like that :p

[Walkabout]

too slow in the beginning, my mind wandered off right away. the thing with abstract art is that everyone has a different take on the meaning of it. but then is there any meaning at all? no one knows what the artist is thinking or trying to portray. the piece of art is just something that catches your mind and then lets your mind explore a certain realm of thoughts. personally, abstract art is not the way i like to stimulate my mind. to each their own.

[almeshal]

He reminds me of an animal that lives in both land and water, an amphibian. He has obviously studied the minute details of each normal movement in order to compose this.

[kensatan]

that was a really beautifully controlled and executed piece. the gradual building and the containment of rhythm was perfect.

[EEMUZZii117]

this is shit, it isnt dancing.. real dancers would know that and it doesnt even deserve to be called one

[vect0rwolf]

Open your mind for once.

[QuutamoKar]

We can see you're not a dancer... :)

[YummiNai]

not conventional dance. its butoh.

[xXxnerdlovexXx]

This is butoh, it's a beautiful form of Japanese art

[ullpinky]

wow...good in dance tecnique....awesome!!

[piedrasverdes]

i just cant stop being amazed by works like this. the purest of the body impulses being followed.

[danielvdaniel]

what an artist!!! brilliant!

[inky3566]

Kinda unsettling.....scared me to tears!! It was BRILLIANT(performer & performance!!) I love Butoh! Thank you for posting this.

[slutinawhorinskaya]

Amazingly disturbing is right! WOW! The pain of birth/emergence?

[Sodowar]

Amazingly disturbing... beautiful !!!