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 ...

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 ...

TOKYOTOKYO — Kazuo Ohno, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, has died. He was 103. Ohno was ...

STAUNTON - Julia Vessey didn’t imagine that one of the biggest Butoh performances of her life would also coincide with the start of her ninth month of pregnancy. As the dance instructor rehearsed for ...

Assistant professor of theater arts Mitsu Salmon creates original performance and visual works that fuse multiple disciplines, but she has a special connection to butoh. She has taught the unique ...

Suppose you combined kabuki, pantomime, modern dance, and avant-garde performance art. Suppose you added some haunting, atonal music. Suppose you stripped the performers of most of their clothing and ...

“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 ...

Established in 1975 and having performed in 700 cities and 40 countries since then, the Japanese butoh company Sankai Juku brings its 1998 award-winning work, Hibiki, to the Irvine Barclay theater ...

Kazuo Ohno, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, has died. He was 103. Ohno was credited along with ...

Dance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets — call it the “men in tights” syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to say they ...

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 ...