Watch A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School (2003) Online

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avant-garde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan. The dance form is thought to have been founded by Tatsumi Hijikata, who both created and performed in butoh pieces from the late 1950’s - through the early 1970’s. In butoh, the style of movement is extremely stylized and deliberate, vacillating between slow and sharp, expressing feelings of dread, sexualization, violence, calmness, birth and “creatureness” among other things. This performance of Summer Storm was originally recorded in 1973 at Westside Auditorium, Kyoto University, Japan, and was Hijikata’s last public performance before his death in 1986 with Butoh of Dark Spirit School. Video version produced in 2003. Read More

Watch A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School online. Featuring Tatsumi Hijikata and Yoko Ashikawa, A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School is classified as Documentary genre movie with an average rating across the web of 0. It is available for streaming online in the UK The movie was filmed in Japan and was released on 2003. A Summer Storm: Butoh of Dark Spirit School was directed by Misao Arai. Read Less