Ushio Amagatsu, dancer and choreographer, founder of the Sankai Juku company, died at the age of 74 on March 25. With him disappears a master of butoh, a Japanese form of contemporary dance immediately recognizable by its dancers with almost naked bodies, covered in white “shironuri” A bridge between France and Japan also collapsed with his death.
In 1972 he participated in the creation of the butoh dance form under the direction of Akaji Maro.