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HIJIKATA: HIJIKATA: REVOLT OF THE BODY is the first book in English devoted to the life and work of the instigator of the Ankoku Butoh ("Dance of Utter Darkness") performance art, and seminal figure in Japanese art, film and literature, Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86). The book is based on original interviews with Hijikata's surviving collaborators, and emphasises both his involvement in film and visual art as a mean to deepen his choreographic explorations, and also his engagement with European art and writing – especially work by Hans Bellmer, Jean Genet, and Francis Bacon – in the development of Ankoku Butoh. The book forms a unique cultural history of Tokyo during Hijikata's inhabitation of the city, notably in its 1960s furore of street-riots and sexual experimentation, and also in its wide-ranging reinvention by Hijikata's trajectory through it. The book includes 24 pages of rare photographic material and film images. "A brilliant and illuminating study of Hijikata
and the Japanese avant-garde" "A brilliant book" Supported by the Japan Foundation SOLAR EAST
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