BODY LANGUAGE: Japanese butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi, pictured, and composer Hiroko Komiya are the featured performers at the upcoming Asheville Butoh Festival. Photo by Raul Bartolome A wisp-thin ...

There are days when we instinctively feel out of place in our own body and mind; making us feel disconnected with our own selves. This is where Yumiko Yoshioka steps in with her Body Resonance ...

For this special event, Nakatani will perform a musical score accompanied by a dance piece in the style of Japanese Butoh choreographed by PhD student Iván-Daniel Espinosa, creating an immersive ...

To understand Amagatsu’s work, it helps to know a bit about Butoh. Butoh (roughly translated as “dance step”) originated as a revolutionary performance art in Japan in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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 ...

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 ...

“Butoh Medea” will be presented at Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. These performances are $20 ($15 with a student/senior discount), with ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “People who feel different feel at home in Butoh,” said the founder of an annual performance series, which this year will take place online. By ...

When it comes to the tragedies of William Shakespeare, the most heartfelt and poignant one has probably got to be King Lear. That’s because while it is set on a grand scale, with kings and earls ...

Joan Laage first saw a picture of Butoh practitioner Akaji Maro in the early 1980s while living and performing contemporary dance in Hong Kong. She recalls the striking image of him crouched in a ...

The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku gave the U.S. premiere of its mesmerizing work Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land at the Granada Theatre. (David Bazemore photo) The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku ...