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After the war, he began work on his dance again, and presented his first solo works in 1949 in Tokyo.<ref name=Childs/> In the 1950s, He taught Mime Studio with Shinya Ando by Hironobu Oikawa. Yoshito Ohno was student of the studio. <ref> Yukihiko Yoshida, trans. Bruce Barid, "Oikawa Hironobu: bringing Decroux and Artaud into Japanese dance practices", The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, Routledge, 2018</ref> Later, he met [[Tatsumi Hijikata]], who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh, a new form of dance evolving in the turmoil of Japan's drab postwar landscape. Hijikata, who rejected the Western dance forms popular at the time, developed with Ohno and a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement. |
After the war, he began work on his dance again, and presented his first solo works in 1949 in Tokyo.<ref name=Childs/> In the 1950s, He taught Mime Studio with Shinya Ando by Hironobu Oikawa. Yoshito Ohno was student of the studio. <ref> Yukihiko Yoshida, trans. Bruce Barid, "Oikawa Hironobu: bringing Decroux and Artaud into Japanese dance practices", The Routledge Companion to Butoh Performance, Routledge, 2018</ref> Later, he met [[Tatsumi Hijikata]], who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh, a new form of dance evolving in the turmoil of Japan's drab postwar landscape. Hijikata, who rejected the Western dance forms popular at the time, developed with Ohno and a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement. |
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During the 1960s, Ohno sought his own style, while collaborating with Tatusmi Hijikata. In 1977, he premiered his solo ''La Argentina Sho'', directed by Hijikata and dedicated to the famed Spanish dancer [[Antonia Mercé]] (known as "La Argentina" |
During the 1960s, Ohno sought his own style, while collaborating with Tatusmi Hijikata. In 1977, he premiered his solo ''La Argentina Sho'', directed by Hijikata and dedicated to the famed Spanish dancer [[Antonia Mercé]] (known as "La Argentina," whom he had seen perform in 1926.) He received Japan's prestigious Dance Critics' Circle Award for the performance and subsequently toured the piece, impacting the international dance world from the 14th International Festival at [[Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle]], in 1980, to his American debut in 1981 at [[La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club]] in New York City. Other cities on the tour included Strasbourg, London, Stuttgart, Paris and Stockholm. |
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With Hijikata directing, Ohno created two more major works, ''My Mother'' and ''Dead Sea'', performed with his son, Yoshito Ohno. Other works include ''Water Lilies'', ''Ka Chō Fū Getsu''' [Flowers-Birds-Wind-Moon] and ''The Road in Heaven'', ''The Road in Earth''. He was awarded a cultural award from Kanagawa Prefecture in 1993, a cultural award from Yokohama city in 1998, and the Michelangelo Antonioni Award for the Arts in 1999. |
With Hijikata directing, Ohno created two more major works, ''My Mother'' and ''Dead Sea'', performed with his son, Yoshito Ohno. Other works include ''Water Lilies'', ''Ka Chō Fū Getsu''' [Flowers-Birds-Wind-Moon] and ''The Road in Heaven'', ''The Road in Earth''. He was awarded a cultural award from Kanagawa Prefecture in 1993, a cultural award from Yokohama city in 1998, and the Michelangelo Antonioni Award for the Arts in 1999. |