15. “La Argentina" Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata
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15. “La Argentina" Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata
"La Argentina" and "My Mother"is representative works of Kazuo Ohno. Both are by choreographing and directing Hijikata Tatsumi. It is a crystal of friendship that it is continued the cooperation of the soul of the two dancers who exchanged over 30 years. When young Hijikata came out to Tokyo around the age of 20. He was surprised at the performance of Kazuo Ohno, shouted, "He is a poison dancer!"
When Kazuo Ohno was on the way to demobilize from the battlefront in the Philippine island, many of the soldiers died on a ship and were buried into the sea. Each time the ship rang the farewell whistle with a deep sad sound. While listening to it, Ohno Kazuo decided if I could come back to Japan alive, I would dance you, through you were thrown into the sea eaten up by fishes and became sea algae. His proto image of the Jellyfish dance of dead soldiers was confirmed on the ship. It was just the Ohno's desperate necessary dance that the young Hijikata encountered in Tokyo.
Also, Hijikata had lost the most favorite sister during the War. After that, they both formed an inevitable relationship and started the fight for 30 years of "Ankoku Butoh (Dark black dance)" activities.
1) Divine excerpt,
2) A girl,
3) Daily Bread,
4) Marriage between heaven and earth.
1. Divine excerpt
Hijikata cited the 1960 work “The Divine" which Kazuo Ohno performed in his choreography at the beginning. Hijikata said,
"Please become a prostitute of Jean Jeune's male prostitute."
Kazuo Ohno said
"Let's become it"."Bring it to the head and start by standing up from the audience seating, and you die on the stage."
The choreography of that time was reproduced with the gorgeous prostitute costume. It was such a perfect beginning as Kazuo's son Yoshito had to shout, "That dance was the essence of Kazuo in all performances! I watched his irreplaceable essence!"
2. A girl
The old male prostitute died and reborn as a small girl with underwear on the stage.
A girl is also a flower in Ohno dance.
Ohno's belief is "There were neither men nor women before they were born."
From a prostitute to a girl, Hijikata and Ohno tried to live both sexes in a dance.
He incarnated while repeating death and regeneration.
3. Daily Bread
"And in the following "Daily bread" part, please show your old naked body directly a lot."
It was the moment when the body of the 71year old dancer turned into a flower.
To the sharpness of his choreography of the imaginary magician Hijikata, Kazuo Ohno himself also would tremble with dancing.
It is a miracle that they realized because they both knew well each other about dancing together for many years.
And at the end of the first part, a big grand piano was brought to the stage.
"Marriage between heaven and earth".
Kazuo stands still in front of the piano and never moved. He keeps stillness for a long time.
Marriage is a unity.
It is a unity between Life and before Life, between the heavens and the earth, between the soul and the body. It was a miraculous silent crystal moment was born.
The Well-Tempered Clavier of J.S.Bach ringed out. A dark turn.
Tango, Flowers and Bird dances of the second part.
"Mr. Ohno, please do as much as you want"
Hijikata released on Ohno’s dancing soul on stage.
Ohno danced after becoming dancer Argentina who had seen and moved deeply in his youth and kept thinking to be one with her for 50 years.
Death and regeneration intermingle countlessly, and the <Jo-Ha-Kyu> has been perfected.
That is the moment Ohno and Hijikata's 30 years voyage had become one.
It can be said that it was another "marriage of heaven and earth ».
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