These haunting figures are a mix of butoh and contemporary dancers in costume, and their meandering performance is titled ...

He pioneered a surrealistic narrative style in collaborations with dancers, artists and the author Yukio Mishima, with whom ...

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.

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.

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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 ...

Eikoh Hosoe, who died on Sept. 16 in Tokyo, was part of a group of avant-garde artists in postwar Japan who were determined ...

A butoh dancer (Atsushi Matsuda, of the internationally-renowned group Dairakudakan) travels across Tokyo on his way to rehearsals, traversing a subconscious landscape that bridges the interior ...

A butoh dancer embodies a castaway doll and performs in a shifting landscape of disappearing bodies of water from intertidal phenomenons. Butoh, also known as the ‘dance of utter darkness’, is ...