Ushio Amagatsu, a globally acclaimed performer and choreographer who was a key figure in butoh dance, died on March 25 from heart failure. He was 74. A funeral was held for close family members.

“Butoh,” literally “dance of darkness,” is an avant-garde form of dance from Japan that few know about, and even fewer practice. As its only practitioner in Singapore, Xue tells us how she ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Away from the confines of the concert hall, these misfit stages are introducing a new generation to butoh, the post-war medium that has since 1959 smashed up the niceties of modern dance.