Purple Magazine
— Purple #43 S/S 2025
The Tokyo Diary Issue

kazuo ohno

BUTOH DANCE   Butoh, the dance of darkness, is a form of avant-garde dance theater created in the 1950s by Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata. Ohno lived through the bombing of Hiroshima, and his work is inflected with imagery of death and primal strife, his hypnotic dances and gestures forming a kind of exorcistic communion […]

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Purple #43 S/S 2025 The Tokyo Diary Issue

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