Semi-spoiler alert: Do not arrive late for the butoh company Sankai Juku’s Umusuna: Memories Before History this week at Carolina Performing Arts. Its opening image is one you might never forget. Here ...

SLOW DANCE: New York-based dancer Vangeline performs and leads workshops at the annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were ...

To understand Amagatsu’s work, it helps to know a bit about Butoh. Butoh (roughly translated as “dance step”) originated as a revolutionary performance art in Japan in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Triskelion Arts, in association with Vangeline Theater and The New York Butoh ...

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 Tokyo Real ...

For those looking for something a little different, the passion of flamenco, the grotesquerie of Butoh and the innovations of modern dance are on the program at the 27th Annual Dionysian Dance ...

In honor of our 10th anniversary, Yumiko will perform her seminal work Before the Dawn, a piece that represents butoh at its most profound level of movement exploration and philosophical inquiry. In ...

Sankai Juku weaves meticulous spellbinding movement with breathtaking visual spectacle to create deeply moving theatrical experiences. The work of choreographer Ushio Amagatsu and his company are ...

Australia’s only international arts festival that focuses exclusively on Asia will bring a range of performances to Adelaide venues. Launching his first OzAsia Festival program, director Joseph ...

Kazuo Ohno, 103, a founder of an experimental modern dance style called butoh that took hold in Japan after World War II and uses dark, grotesque imagery, painstakingly slow movement and themes of ...

KOCHI: Full body painted in shades of white or gold, grotesque costumes and clawed hands, this is what comprises the theatre of protest, Butoh, which is a type of Japanese dance theatre. This dance is ...