Tatsumi Hijikata, Shizukana le, 1973. Photograph by Makoto Onozuka. “My mother used to say: Run with the heart of the blind.”
Tatsumi Hijikata, Shizukana le, 1973. Photograph by Makoto Onozuka. “I keep one of my sisters alive in my body when I am absorbed in creating a Butoh piece, she tears off the darkness in my body and eats more than is necessary of it…when she stands up in my body I sit down impulsively.”
Renai Butoh-ha, choreographed by Tatsumi Hijikata, 1984. Photograph by Masato Okada. “Our bodies love tradition; I feel Butoh when I face my traditional body…Avant-garde is an intense love affair with tradition.” – Min Tanaka.
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Three ladies have lunch with a leopard at the Luna Park Zoo in Los Angeles, CA - c.1920s
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Which Came First? (by jack_mord)
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The Princess in the Backyard, Heinz Hajek Halke 1930
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German postcard, hand colored, by A.G. Steglitz, 1904
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If this isn’t cute to you, you’re dead inside.
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Wuppertal Schwebebahn









