Movie · 2012

Crazy Camel

Name: Crazy Camel
Released: 2012-01-01
Duration: 69 min
Cast: Akaji Maro, Akiko Takakuwa, Naomi Muku, Azusa Fujimoto, Jongye Yang

★ 0.0 / 10201269 min

‘Many people have a preconception about butoh — that it is performed by dancers whose bodies are painted white. So when we debuted our current program, ‘Crazy Camel,’ in France, and we came on stage covered in gold-colored powder, the fans and experts there thought we were pioneering a new style,” 72-year-old butoh master Akaji Maro says in a recent email interview. “In fact, this gold-powdered showy performance style has existed as a cabaret-show flip side of orthodox butoh since not long after the genre was started in 1959. It was developed by two trailblazers — Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) and Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010).”