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

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.

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 ...

Still, this much is true: the measure of any good butoh performance is that it creates the kind of creepy image that crawls into bed with you at night. And by those terms, Murobushi-san certainly ...

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.