A Summer Storm (夏の嵐) 51 years old

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 1973 performance of Summer Storm at Kyoto University was Hijikata’s last public performance before his death in 1986.

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A Summer Storm Cast

Name	Character
Tatsumi Hijikata He was 44, 57 years old when he died

A Summer Storm Crew

Name	Department
Misao Arai as Director.	Directing