YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters Life!) - No chickens were strangled at the gala performance for Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno's 100th birthday, a sign of just how much Japan's most provocative dance has changed ...
NEW YORK — In his dances and in life, choreographer Kota Yamazaki believes that a person needs to be fluid, like water. As he said in a recent interview, “You have to keep flowing, so people of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"I am a living Butoh dictionary." That's how Vincent Truter introduces himself. Odd that, because he lives in Johannesburg, not in Japan, where this art form, focused on body consciousness and ...
The dark sensibilities and cultural resonances of Butoh, the radical Japanese dance movement, are explored in this multilayered work. Profoundly rooted in both traditional and contemporary Japanese ...
Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute will present Queer Butoh Festival, marking a decade of radical performance at The ...
Min Tanaka is not a name heard frequently on this coast. Nor is his unusual and intensive butoh school of dance and dance/farming concept particularly well known by L.A.'s dance community. That may be ...