In the dimly lit auditorium, audience members filled the seats of the first level, leaving only a few spots open for Sankai Juku’s performance of Utsushi at Hancher. Dancing a piece that combined many ...

Kazuo Ohno, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, has died. He was 103. Ohno was credited along with ...

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 ...

The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku gave the U.S. premiere of its mesmerizing work Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land at the Granada Theatre. (David Bazemore photo) The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku ...

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 ...

To understand Amagatsu’s work, it helps to know a bit about Butoh. Butoh (roughly translated as “dance step”) originated as a revolutionary performance art in Japan in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Yes, watching Butoh for the first time is maddeningly weird, like so much in Japanese culture, but if you are the curious type it is also wonderful for reasons that are hard to identify. As an artform ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Butoh performance will feature Akihito Ichihara and students in costumes ...

Sankai Juku weaves meticulous spellbinding movement with breathtaking visual spectacle to create deeply moving theatrical experiences. The work of choreographer Ushio Amagatsu and his company are ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Butoh, the controversial Japanese dance regimen, is a regular feature of Second Saturday Art Walk programming at Deep Tanks Studio, the alternative North Shore art space. But ...

TO DANCE butoh is not to dance at all. The word comes from two Japanese characters: bu, which means "dance," and toh, which means "step." The term describes the Japanese-derived expressionistic ...