Crazy Camel

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 goldcolored powder the fans and experts there thought we were pioneering a new style 72yearold butoh master Akaji Maro says in a recent email interview In fact this goldpowdered showy performance style has existed as a cabaretshow flip side of orthodox butoh since not long after the genre was started in 1959 It was developed by two trailblazers Tatsumi Hijikata 192886 and Kazuo Ohno 19062010