Crazy Camel

Crazy Camel (2012)

‘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 gold-colored powder, the fans and experts there thought we were pioneering a new style,” 72-year-old butoh master Akaji Maro says in a recent email interview. “In fact, this gold-powdered showy performance style has existed as a cabaret-show flip side of orthodox butoh since not long after the genre was started in 1959. It was developed by two trailblazers — Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-86) and Kazuo Ohno (1906-2010).”

Director: Akaji Maro

Casts

	Akaji Maro as
	Akiko Takakuwa as
	Naomi Muku as
	Azusa Fujimoto as
	Jongye Yang as
	Oran Ito as
	Yuna Saimon as
	Mai Taniguchi as
	Misako Taniguchi as
	Takuya Muramatsu as
	Ikko Tamura as
	Atsushi Matsuda as
	Shioya Tomoshi as
	Naoya Oda as
	Kenta Sakazume as
	Keita Arai as
	Takeru Aso as

Crew