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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

TO DANCE butoh is not to dance at all. The word comes from two Japanese characters: bu, which means "dance," and toh, which means "step." The term describes the Japanese-derived expressionistic ...

In “Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!: The William Faulkner Dance Project,” a new piece by Los Angeles dance artist Oguri, Butoh dance meets America’s Nobel Prize-winning novelist meets Japanese minimalist staging ...

As an underground dance style to emerge from Japan during the late-1950s, Butoh was wooed by Western critics and enjoyed great popularity from the 1980s to 1990s for its risqué appeal. Despite its ...

The history of butoh makes it plain, yet again, that banning something objectionable only elevates its status. A form of dance theater from Japan, butoh is known for its mysterious, grotesque and ...

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 ...

Butoh, a contemporary Japanese performance art that features dancers completely covered in white body makeup, reaches for ideas below the surface. Local butoh dance collective Nenkin Butoh Dan will ...