The spirit was gone: a tribute to Kazuo Ohno

Kazuo Ohno, who died in 2010, pioneered Japanese Butoh. German film-maker Peter Sempel made this tribute to Ohno using archive footage. The backing track is The Spirit Was Gone, taken from Antony and the Johnsons’ album, Swanlights

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