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Nakajima Natsu is a Japanese dancer, and one of the first female butoh dancers. She studied with Ohno Kazuo and worked with Hijikata Tatsumi, and founded the dance company Muteki-sha in 1969.

Life and Career

Nakajima was born in 1943 in Sakhalin, which was occupied by Japan at the time.

In 1955, she began to study classical ballet, and entered the Ohno Kazuo Dance Institute in 1962. She has appeared in films as well as theater productions, including Adachi Masao's 1969 film Sexual Play and the 1990 documentary Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis.