Hijikata Butoh Quotes

#1. It is odd how one can feel like someone else early in the morning - bigger, cleaner, so much more alive.

Maureen Daly

#2. Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical essence is hidden here.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#3. There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

Tatsumi Hijikata

#4. Here is a beautiful dream: A never-ending journey! The holy purpose of science is to realise this dream for all living beings!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Everybody wants to be a star right now, to be heard, to have a voice, so you have to give the confidence for people to have that ability - and give them the wardrobe to become a star.

Zac Posen

#6. You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing but a boring writing exercise for you.

Leonard Mlodinow

#7. Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

Tatsumi Hijikata

#8. I've seen some players with very big feet, and some with very small feet

David Pleat