| Mille Plateaux 00 Kazuo Ohno (Japan) |
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Anniversary A hundred years old butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno |
Kazuo Ohno in Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan Photo by Eikou Hosoe |
This photo album was taken by Hosoe Eikou, when Kazuo Ohno performed as a memorial butoh performance for Dr. Miyata in Hokkaido, Japan. Dr. Miyata was a earnest supporter for Kazuo Ohno for long years. Dr.Miyata's daughter Yuuka gave me these pictures for me. When I lived in Kyoto,Japan. She helped me as a music stuff at my butoh performances. I heard from her that her father suicided for suffering of management of his mental hospital. Kazuo Ohno performed at Dr.Miyata's hospital in front of mental handcapped paitients . And photografer Hosoe took his pictures at this memorial performance and in huge field of hokkaido. Life met life and separated. This photo album is work of soul. |
| Dedicated to Kazuo Ohno |
Living Weakened body Kazuo Ohno has transformed to weakened body as his whole being with taking a hundred years. What is the miracle of Kazuo Ohno? When I was young, I was so deeply crazy about Tatsumi Hijikata's weakened body that I could not understand Kazuo Ohno's butoh. Honestly saying, I did not like his dance. Because I have seen his performance so many times, it seemed as the same as always. When he was eithies he always showed same bigining. He appears on the stage, and arises his right arm, this seemed his habit to begin performance. And lets his soul fly away from his large hand. His body movement slowly starts to follow the flying of his soul in the space. That's all. Now I can feel that is great. But at the young age, because I was so deeply possessed by Hijikata's weakend body, I could not satisfy with Kazuo Ohno's butoh. Sometimes I murmured, 'Is this a kind of modern dance? ' But at that ages he put a secret poizon in his performance. When he becomes over nineties yeas old, a miracle happened. I saw a performance at Torii Hall in Osaka, Japan, at 1990's. He was arround ninety years old. He appeared on the stage as usual, and started to arise his right arm. I murmured, 'Ummm also today he is doing the same pattern---' At the moment suddenly his arm fell down and his body changed into so strange shape which I had never seen. It was so surprising moment. I felt that he must did so hard traning for this moment. After for long years he showed stereotyped movement, and at ninety years old he turned the table. His performance at that day was miraculous. His body seemed almost unable to move, his mind could not controll what he did. He mistaked exit from stage between a stage to next stage, and showed his body as a lost way body. There were no usual his patterns like as the soul goes ahead and the body follows it, but both of his soul and body seemed to belong in another dimension like a near death world. I shouted in my mind, 'This is the living weakend body!' He finally succeeded to transform into weakend body. It was not same way as Tatsumi Hijikata, kazuo Ohno invent compretly different way. It was a way to transform directly into living Budda through dancing. When he finished all performance, I hugged his weakend body firmly. I recieved a big secret present from him through the big hug, I still keep it in my darkness of body. |
| 1 October, 2007 Rhizome Lee |
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