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 ...

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 ...

1. Historical: "In May, 1959, Butoh pioneer Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) premiered his seminal work, 'Kinjiki' ('Forbidden Colors'). It is considered the first public Butoh performance. The more ...

Japanese butoh is at once exquisite and confounding. Launched in the 1950s, this expressionistic art drew from Eastern and Western traditions and injected grotesque elements into modern dances — ...

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There’s a difference of opinion about something among some of the members of an upcoming performance titled “Fragments of Dream: Butoh Dance Relations from Over the Rainbow.” The dance/theater ...

“In the present, we are not suffering in this moment. It’s only in the past and future that we dwell on all our suffering.” — Ledoh During the social upheaval and rapid Westernization of Japan ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Just hours before the surreal "LUMEN" extravaganza Saturday on the New Brighton shoreline, comparably extraordinary juxtapositions were occurring on the Rosebank waterfront, ...

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Art Complex, responsible for the phenomenally successful show "GEAR" in Kyoto, plans to open a new theater to showcase the Japanese avant-garde dance, Butoh. The Kyoto Butoh-kan, likely the first ...

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 ...