Tatsumi Hijikata, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tatsumi Hijikata

Japanese choreographer

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1928

Place of Birth: Akita Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1986

Profession: author, choreographer, dancer

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Tatsumi Hijikata (?? ?, Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 – January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh.
By the late 1960s, he had begun to develop this dance form, which is highly choreographed with stylized gestures drawn from his childhood memories of his northern Japan home.
It is this style which is most often associated with Butoh by Westerners.