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Kazuo Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, in 1906. After graduating from the Japan Athletic College, he began working as a physical education teacher at Kanto Gakuin High School, in Yokohama.

In 1929, after seeing a performance by the Spanish dancer Antonia Merce, known as La Argentina, he was so impressed that he decided to dedicate his life to dance.

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He began training with two of Japan's modern dance pioneers, Baku Ishii and Takaya Eguchi, the latter a choreographer who had studied Neue Tanz with Mary Wigman in Germany.
In the 1950s, Kazuo Ohno met Tatsumi Hijikata, who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh (originally called Ankoku Butoh, the "Dance of Utter Darkness").

Butoh was evolving in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape. Hijikata, who rejected the Western dance forms so popular at the time, developed with a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement.

In 1959, Hijikata created one of the e