It's not hard to see why Sankai Juku is the leading popularizer of Japanese butoh, so wildly loved that co-presenters San Francisco Performances and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts counted ...

SINGAPORE — Can you sit through an hour and a half of non-stop gorgeous? In slow motion? That’s exactly how Sankai Juku’s production, Kagemi: Beyond The Metaphors Of Mirrors, felt like. There seems to ...

With elegant simplicity, white-painted male dancers compose a series of patterns against a black backdrop. Sankai Juku, a Tokyo- and Paris-based butoh dance troupe, presents “Kagemi (Beyond the ...

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 ...

Butoh, that decidedly anti-Western, post-Hiroshima dance genre known for its enigmatic, bizarre and impenetrable productions, has become over the years, if not exactly pop, then at least more ...

The award-winning Japanese butoh troupe Sankai Juku has returned for a fourth visit to Taipei, to perform Kagemi — Beyond the Metaphors of Mirrors to the National Theater this weekend for three ...

“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 ...

The year 1984 was an unforgettable one for Toronto as the Toronto International Festival presented a glittering array of the best arts groups in the world to celebrate the city's 150th birthday.

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