A radical Japanese dance workshop is being led by a pioneer of the form this weekend. Butoh, a physical art form that can incorporate myriad dance techniques, will be taught in a workshop at Kaufman ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was an auspicious beginning: It was May 1959, at a dance performance in Japan where a man was ...

When Sara Baird, artistic director of Anemone Dance Theater (recently relocated from New York City to Asheville) teamed up with Julie Becton Gillum, artistic director of local company Legacy Butoh, ...

Butoh, a contemporary Japanese performance art that features dancers completely covered in white body makeup, reaches for ideas below the surface. Local butoh dance collective Nenkin Butoh Dan will ...

TO DANCE butoh is not to dance at all. The word comes from two Japanese characters: bu, which means "dance," and toh, which means "step." The term describes the Japanese-derived expressionistic ...

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 ...

In honor of our 10th anniversary, Yumiko will perform her seminal work Before the Dawn, a piece that represents butoh at its most profound level of movement exploration and philosophical inquiry. In ...

With elegant simplicity, white-painted male dancers compose a series of patterns against a black backdrop. Sankai Juku, a Tokyo- and Paris-based butoh dance troupe, presents “Kagemi (Beyond the ...

“Butoh Medea” will be presented at Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. These performances are $20 ($15 with a student/senior discount), with ...