There’s a moment in your first life-drawing class where your perception shifts and you start looking at the naked body in front of you differently. At least that was my experience. Instead of feeling ...

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 ...

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.

It is most unusual for a choreographer to shout "Stop dancing!" to the African dancers he is working with. To confuse matters further, Boaz Barkan claims: "Butoh isn't a dance. You have to live it. We ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Rebellious Bodies: International Butoh Dance Festival 2023 presents performances ...

Here on a recent weekend, a group of people has gathered to begin a 100-mile journey on foot through the desert, a trek organized by Los Angeles dancer and choreographer Oguri. Four years ago, Oguri, ...

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 ...

Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute, in collaboration with The Brick, will present the ninth annual Queer Butoh from Wednesday, June 25 - Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8pm at The Brick Theater, ...

Naropa University guest artist Katsura Kan is a master Butoh artist and ranks among Japan’s first generation of Butoh. The Kyoto native studied at the Kongo School, formed his own multinational dance ...

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 ...