At twilight, a kitsune (fox) and akaname (filth-licking toilet demon) lead a group of excited Tokyoites and visitors around ...

"It makes me want to go to the chiropractor," moderator Todd Field told director Robert Eggers of Depp's enormously physical ...

In the early 1970s, he started performing butoh, a form of Japanese dance theater, after meeting Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ono, the two key founders of the genre. Butoh performances are typically ...

An “underground” festival now under way traces the history of the modern Japanese dance form of “butoh” against the backdrop of the postwar period of rapid economic growth in Tokyo. The ...

SINGAPORE – A Japanese dance form best known for its bald ... these misfit stages are introducing a new generation to butoh, the post-war medium that has since 1959 smashed up the niceties ...

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 ...

The “butoh” – also known as “ankoku-buto,” meaning “dance of darkness” – appeared in Japan in the 1960s. But Sakabe explained – in an email conversation – that this dance ...

She held a Butoh workshop in Sydney as part of the exhibition. Japanese Butoh dance and the Japanese tea ceremony. What do these two have in common? In the audio, Ms Umiumare explains what Butoh ...

Butoh is an intense and often confrontational dance style that emerged from a Japan devastated by WWII. It is as grueling to perform as it is to watch: A series of slo-mo friezes, angular ...

Ankoku Butoh is a style of avantgarde dance that established itself in the counter culture experimental arts scene of post WWII Japan The dance form is thought to have been founded by Tatsumi ...