butoh dancers-turned-actors

[Mark Nornes]

On Apr 27, 2007, at 9:12 AM, Bruce Baird wrote:

> I haven't seen all of these films, but generally the directors use  
> the dancers when they want to depict someone who is crazed or out  
> of the ordinary, and considering the predilections of the dancers,  
> this is no surprise.
>

One more example along these lines: Hijikata rendered the dark  
insanity of a man living with a Kannon statue in Ogawa's  
(documentary) Sundial Carved With a Thousand Years of Notches,  
playing against none other than Nikkatsu Roman Porno star Miyashita  
Junko. It's a fascinating sequence marked by time slips and a crazy  
performance climaxing with an unscripted plunge into a mountain stream.

I once spoke to one of his deshis about it, and she said it was among  
her favorite performances. She sensed a self-consciousness about his  
impending death. So it could be a document of far more than that  
Magino story.

markus


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