(Note: Nicole Vivien Watson's The Mud Formed A Finger, Pointed was the opening piece for Programs 2, 3 and 4 -- the latter two dates on Saturday and Sunday were reserved for the headliners acts of The ...

SLOW DANCE: New York-based dancer Vangeline performs and leads workshops at the annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were ...

The cast of the 2021 Salish Sea Butoh Festival performs in Fort Worden Historical State Park in Port Townsend. After three years in Port Townsend, the festival moves to Bellingham for its 2024 run ...

BUTOH THE LINE: This year’s Asheville Butoh Festival features dancers and teachers Seisaku, center, and Yuri Nagaoko, right, from Tokyo. Local dancer and festival artistic director Julie Becton Gillum ...

Enter Your Email to Unlock This Article Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Since 2002, Vangeline Theater and ...

More often than not, the San Francisco Butoh Festival is an unintentional hoot. Amateurish, vapid, vulgar and pretentious, it can be entertaining for all the wrong reasons. The show that opened ...

Ankoku butoh (dance of darkness) -- that post-World War II Japanese expressionist movement form that can induce ecstasy and ennui in a flicker of a second hand -- just isn't what it used to be. The ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The third annual Salish Sea International Butoh Festival will begin today with a free street performance at the Haller Fountain in downtown Port Townsend. The celebration at various ...

Dance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets — call it the “men in tights” syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to say they ...

Is there such a thing as Butoh comedy? Apparently so, if “The Last Potato: Sacrament and Gluttony” is anything to go by. “Potato” wrapped up the opening night of The Next WAVE Seattle Butoh Festival ...

The KL Butoh Festival is back in full force this year, celebrating its 10th year with performances, exhibitions and master classes. This festival, which ends on Nov 12, reflects on the evolution of ...

You can’t beat butoh for variety, creativity and utter investment. Despite, or because of, performers’ intense self-focus, it seems butoh can be more open than conventional dance to craft and ...