ABSTRACT
Dance critic Tachiki Akiko says that butoh often slides into the work of other new dance in Japan. Narrative in dance, as in the early modern dances of Martha Graham, is cast in metaphors and symbols that peak the body's deep responsiveness to kinetic images. Experience, as such, guides Hijikata and Ohno. Hijikata and Ohno dance a satirical duet in white dresses, their dance caught in photographs now widely published. Death and life in that order is the predominant themes in the opening scenes of Admiring La Argentina, in which Kazuo poignantly portrays Genet's prostitute's last moments". The chicken squeezed between Ohno Yoshito's thighs was later sacrificed in the dance. Sacrifice is the source of all work and every dancer is an illegitimate child set free to experience that very quality. Ohno evokes the spirit of La Argentina: dancing in a dark green dress, changing to a flowing gown, and finally into a white ruffled.
