Kazuo Ohno obituary by Antony Hegarty

Tender and ethereal interpreter of the modern Japanese dance form butohKazuo Ohno, who has died aged 103, was one of the pioneers of butoh, Japan's striking contribution to contemporary dance. Butoh, which incorporated elements of existentialism, surrealism, German expressionism, kabuki theatre and eastern spiritual thought, was a reaction in part to the horrors of the second world war.In 1938, Ohno had been drafted …

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