Two upcoming festivals will transform Seoul into a stage for renowned choreographers and dance companies. The 31st Changmu International Arts Festival, running from Aug. 22 to 30, will feature Sankai ...

According to the media and publicity consultant of the play, Sara Haddadi, the performance, produced by Mohammad Hossein Tootoonchian, will be staged in the second half of the year. Regarding the ...

SINGAPORE – Famed Japanese butoh dance troupe Sankai Juku is staging the international premiere of its latest show, Totem – Void And Height, at the Esplanade. Totem is the final work by the group’s ...

The cast of the 2021 Salish Sea Butoh Festival performs in Fort Worden Historical State Park in Port Townsend. After three years in Port Townsend, the festival moves to Bellingham for its 2024 run ...

Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who brought worldwide visibility to Butoh, a hauntingly minimalist Japanese form of dance theater that arose in the wake of wartime devastation, ...

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 ...

Not content to rest on its reputation for hot springs, 1300-year-old Kinosaki is luring visitors with street art and the hard-won return of a once extinct bird. Kinosaki Onsen is full of strange ...

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 ...

The article I wrote recently reviewing the soundtrack CD for the movie “The Mountain Minor,” has elicited more responses from readers than just about anything I’ve ever had published by The Oak Ridger ...