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 ...

Semi-spoiler alert: Do not arrive late for the butoh company Sankai Juku’s Umusuna: Memories Before History this week at Carolina Performing Arts. Its opening image is one you might never forget. Here ...

For those looking for something a little different, the passion of flamenco, the grotesquerie of Butoh and the innovations of modern dance are on the program at the 27th Annual Dionysian Dance ...

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 ...

On the third Thursday of each month, the lobby of the Salvage Vanguard Theater reveals a tableau of living art known as butoh. As different from the more familiar Western forms of modern dance as an ...

An “underground” festival now under way traces the history of the modern Japanese dance form of “butoh” against the backdrop of the postwar period of rapid economic growth in Tokyo. The Tokyo Real ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Gloomy," "eerie," "vulgar," "avant-garde" and "conceptual" are adjectives often used to describe butoh, the genre of Japanese modern dance started in 1959 by Tatsumi Hishikata and Kazuo Ohno in which ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Kids, the first of three works in this adventurous annual showcase, began unassumingly. Clad in grey sweatshirt ...