Dance of Darkness Movie Review 1986

A record of a performance of the radical avant-garde Japanese dance genre, Ankokuh Buton, or Dance of Darkness, created in the 1960s as a defiant response to the conservative mainstream dance of the time. Butoh is characterized by lack of traditional elegance or grace, concentration on realistic adoptions of peasant life and a philosophy that dance be a method of individualistic living rather than an aesthetic or artistic act.

Distribution

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Running time 40 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Performing Arts, Dance, Dance--Performance

Director

Edin Velez

Producer

Edin Velez