Assistant professor of theater arts Mitsu Salmon creates original performance and visual works that fuse multiple disciplines, but she has a special connection to butoh. She has taught the unique ...

In the uncertain realm between life and death dwell mystical creatures — tengu demons, yōkai folklore monsters and spirits of the dead. It’s these shadows that choreographer and director Kaiji ...

Alternately subtle and flamboyant, hearty and austere, literary and visceral, the traditional dance idioms of Japan offer contemporary artists a vast array of experiences and vocabularies to adopt, ...

Bread & Butter Theatre returns to Potrero Stage with the World Premiere of Lana Palmer's FUNERAL GAME. Artistic Director Bruce Avery directs this two-person play about memory and omission, love and ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A variety of Japanese and Japanese American arts -- including Butoh and ...

Maybe 90s globalism will render the brutal originality of Japanese butoh as the cherry blossoms: precious, scattered, transient. Sankai Juku’s 1993 Yuragi: In a Space of Perpetual Motion, recently ...

Butoh returns to Bratislava AFTER a long break, the Japanese dance form butoh has again returned to Bratislava – this time in the form of a one-woman-show by Sumako Koseki, a Japanese dancer living in ...

's production of "Oedipus the King" expecting to see Sophocles' play set in a traditional Greek setting, you'll be surprised. Artistic director Elizabeth Huffman wants to take the company in a new ...

We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurches from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts ...

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 ...

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 ...