Tatsumi Hijikata
Active Dates
1960s – 1980s
Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽 Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 - January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh. By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern Japan home. It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.
Location
- Tokyo, Japan
Relationship to other butoh artists
- Influenced Ushio Amagatsu
- Collaborated with Kazuo Ohno
- Trained Yoko Ashikawa
- Trained Ko Murobushi
- Influenced Min Tanaka
- Trained Koichi Tamano
- Trained Akaji Maro
- Influenced Natsu Nakajima (Muteki-sha)
- Trained Hiroko Tamano
- Trained Yukio Waguri
- Collaborated with Mitsutaka Ishii
- Trained Kayo Mikami, Torifune
- Trained Seisaku
- Trained Taketeru Kudo
- Trained Tomoe Shizune
- Trained Saga Kobayashi
- Collaborated with Akira Kasai
- Trained Yoshito Ohno
- Trained Atsushi Takenouchi, Jinen Butoh
- Trained Tetsuro Fukuhara (Tokyo Space Dance)
- Influenced Shinichi Iova-Koga (inkBoat)