Post 22: Kazuo Ohno

Kazuo Ohno was a Japanese performance artist who lived to be 103 years old. He used to dance the Butoh style dance, which consisted of emotional and experience-influenced dances. He was drafted into the China and New Guinea war and was captured as a POW for some time. After he returned to his hometown, he continued to pursue his love of dance and did many performances in Japan. In 2001, Ohno lost his ability to walk, but continued to make performances by doing slow, intricate movements with his hands and arms. He died of respiratory failure in June 2010. I chose to research him because he seemed to be very interesting, due to the fact that he was in the army for a long period of time, and used his experiences to create famous performance pieces.