Keiya OUCHIDA
The Story Of Smallpox (excerpt)
Nippon Visions ½
By the early 1970's Tatsumi HIJIKATA's choreographies were more performance than dance. Keiya OUCHIDA's film of HIJIKATA's 1972 performance THE STORY OF SMALLPOX captures one of HIJAKATA'S last public solo dances as part of a group performance with Asbestos Hall. The film also gives us the opportunity to see past and present butoh dancers such as Yoko ASHIKAWA, Saga KOBAYSHI and Yukio WAGURI in action.
About Keiya OUCHIDA
Keiya OUCHIDA was born in Fukuoka in 1930 and died in Tokyo in 2003.