How Did Hiroyuki Ono Change The Spirit Of Buth Dance

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Entering the 1970s, the dance field in Japan began to have new breakthroughs. In the year 1970, Hiroyuki Ono found a dance society which nurtured dancer and released new choreographic works. Ono believes that as long as the spirit of modern dance is ascertained, the form of Butoh dance can still exist. His spirit was inherited by Akaji Maro, an avant-garde theatre actor who started a dance society. In his choreographic works, Maro kept aesthetics in the original Butoh style of Hiroyuki Ono, such as bald head, white-powdered body, sexual inversion and the violent spirit. But he changed the performance style to Butoh from pure aesthetics to theatre performance and associated it with stage effects such as flames and waterfall, which makes the