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"KAZUO OHNO"

"the last emperor of dance"

by Gustavo Collini Sartor

Presentation of the book:

Kazuo Ohno "the last emperor of dance".

It is a book directed to the public in general be it from the great visual impact of its photographs or from its text which brings us near the world of the philosophy of life of master Kazuo Ohno.

The present edition is the first of its kind in Spanish. This project could be concrete under the auspicies of the "Japan Foundation" and has been edited by the Vinciguerra editorial.

Kazuo Ohno, in your house in
Yokojama, Tokyo

Crític by Mariangela Módolo (Italy)

Everybody look at things, but not all the people look at in the same way:it is the action of he who works with a screen, a cloth or an objective of a camera.

It is easy to observe the external world even though it is not possible for everybody to observe and perceive with the same intensity; it is hard to sift those things of the world that are ephymerous from those that merit an everlasting remembrance, so that the essence of movement may fix in our memory, the soul of the artist that animates the world.

In the "Teatro delle Immagini" of GustavoCollini Sartor one can materially see the soul, remote as the world, vital principle that pulses in the body so that it may take forms of distant stories (collective memory), of premonitory vision and of dreams.

This is the vision that emerges when one sees the work that Gustavo Collini Sartor reveals in this book, showing us as a way between the integration of two cultures, East and West, so different and so close at the same time when they bring us near the universe of the great master of Butoh dance Kazuo Ohno, who with his philosophy goes beyond and penetrates the ethnical and cultural frontiers to enter into a language that is familiar to us all, the poetry of the everyday feelings.

The bridge made by Kazuo Ohno and which the author narrates, is formed by the encounter with Flemish dancer Antonia Mercé, so-called "La Argentina"; his conversion to Catholicism, the readings his mother gave him since he was a little boy, that western world that later on he would conquer with his philosophy of life and his dance.

But at the same time the interesting thing in this book is that when Kazuo Ohno came closer to the West he did not lose for any moment his roots and his thoughts originated by Buddhism.

Perhaps, as the author tells us, he is the Judas of his own roots, but the fact of naming it redeems it already in order to go beyond realism by turning him into the last emperor of dance of the beginning of the century.

Price book U$S 40.-

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