Post-war Japan was home to exciting new theatrical forms. These included the often grotesque and contorted, but at times flowing, dance style “butoh”, created by dancer/choreographer Hijikata Tatsumi ...

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

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.

Japanese Butoh group Sankai Juku made recurring visits to Dallas in the early seasons of performing arts presenter TITAS, appearing three times in the 1980s and '90s. Now the legendary troupe is back ...

A Japanese dance-theatre art form lands in Cyprus this July as Dance House Lefkosia hosts a workshop dedicated to the Butoh dance genre. Led by Paris-based Japanese Butoh dancer and teacher Maki ...

Despite the setting — a small stage filled with nine dancers — there was a feeling of separateness and sadness. The Vangeline Theater, a Butoh dance group, celebrated its 10th anniversary on February ...

Stark white, pitch black, or drenched in gold. "During the full rehearsal on Thursday, I painted my entire body black — now even the undersides of my fingernails are stained," Yang Jong-ye said with a ...

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 ...