大野一雄

大野一雄-October 27, 1906 – June 1, 2010

Kazuo Ohno, a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as It was written of him that his very presence was an "artistic fact."
He passed away on June 1, 2010, at 4.38pm (jst), in Japan Yokohama Sen-in Hoken Hospital in Yokohama due to respiratory failure, at the age of 103.

Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, on October 27 in 1906. He demonstrated an aptitude for athletics in junior high school and graduated from an athletic college in 1929, teaching physical education at a Christian high school. In 1933, Ohno began studying with Japanese modern dance pioneers Baku Ishii and Takaya Eguchi, which qualified him to teach dance at the Soshin Girls' School in Yokohama (from where he retired in 1980.)

In the 1950s, Ohno met Tatsumi Hijikata, who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh, a new form of dance evolving in the turmoil of Japan's drab postwar landscape. Hijikata, who developed with Ohno and a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement.

During the 1960s, Ohno sought his own style, while collaborating with Tatusmi Hijikata. In 1977, he premiered his solo La Argentina Sho [Admiring La Argentina], directed by Hijikata and dedicated to the famed Spanish dancer Antonia Mercé (known as "La Argentina," whom he had seen perform in 1926.) He received Japan's prestigious Dance Critics' Circle Award for the performance and subsequently toured the piece, impacting the international dance world from the 14th International Festival at Nancy, France, in 1980, to his American debut in 1981 at La Mama E.T.C. in New York City. Other cities on the tour included Strasbourg, London, Stuttgart, Paris and Stockholm.

His words:

“舞蹈是发自舞着内在的体现，所以舞者必须时时刻刻都以最真实，最深沉的形态生活”

“无须太多思考，用你的灵魂跳踏”

--大野一雄