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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Butoh performance will feature Akihito Ichihara and students in costumes ...

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 ...

On October 25 and 26, Theater for the New City will present prize-winning Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN, the leading representative of butoh dance in Sweden, in "SOOT," a new solo butoh ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...