Despite the setting — a small stage filled with nine dancers — there was a feeling of separateness and sadness. The Vangeline Theater, a Butoh dance group, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February ...

BODY LANGUAGE: Japanese butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi, pictured, and composer Hiroko Komiya are the featured performers at the upcoming Asheville Butoh Festival. Photo by Raul Bartolome A wisp-thin ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was an auspicious beginning: It was May 1959, at a dance performance in Japan where a man was ...

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

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A radical Japanese dance workshop is being led by a pioneer of the form this weekend. Butoh, a physical art form that can incorporate myriad dance techniques, will be taught in a workshop at Kaufman ...

Butoh, a contemporary Japanese performance art that features dancers completely covered in white body makeup, reaches for ideas below the surface. Local butoh dance collective Nenkin Butoh Dan will ...

Press release from the Asheville Butoh Collective: The Asheville Butoh Festival is entering it’s 13th season. It was established in 2000 by Julie Gillum and the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “People who feel different feel at home in Butoh,” said the founder of an annual performance series, which this year will take place online. By ...