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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. New York Butoh Institute will present Hijikata's Three Chapters on Wednesday, ...

The history of butoh makes it plain, yet again, that banning something objectionable only elevates its status. A form of dance theater from Japan, butoh is known for its mysterious, grotesque and ...

Subversive. Dangerous. Angst-ridden. These adjectives characterize butoh, the avant-garde Japanese dance form that grew out of that nation’s response to the bombing of Hiroshima. Loosely translated, ...

TOKYOTOKYO — 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 ...

“We shake hands with the dead, who send us encouragement from beyond our body; this is the unlimited power of butoh.” BUTOH was born in the decade after World War II as the ultimate underground dance ...

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 ...

Eikoh Hosoe, “Kamaitachi #31” (1968/2015), gelatin silver print; image size: 12 x 17-13/16 inches; paper size: 16 x 19-15/16 inches; frame size: 19-1/2 x 25 in ...

Here, Inuhiko Yomota takes on Yoshito Ohno (born 1938), the "mythical figure" of butoh — a genre so undefinable that poet Miyoshi Toyoichiro once called it "a dance, performance, acting, or whatever ...