PORT TOWNSEND — The third annual Salish Sea International Butoh Festival will begin today with a free street performance at the Haller Fountain in downtown Port Townsend. The celebration at various ...

Butoh Ritual Dance and Theater will present Raw Butoh Night, with a performance of 'Happy Chocolate' by Vangeline and Coco ...

Japanese butoh is at once exquisite and confounding. Launched in the 1950s, this expressionistic art drew from Eastern and Western traditions and injected grotesque elements into modern dances — ...

Raquel Almazan will perform EL ODIO DE UN PAÍS, a site-specific Butoh performance and reading, at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre on February 27-28.

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 ...

1. Historical: "In May, 1959, Butoh pioneer Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) premiered his seminal work, 'Kinjiki' ('Forbidden Colors'). It is considered the first public Butoh performance. The more ...

Art Complex, responsible for the phenomenally successful show "GEAR" in Kyoto, plans to open a new theater to showcase the Japanese avant-garde dance, Butoh. The Kyoto Butoh-kan, likely the first ...

“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 ...

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 ...

There’s a difference of opinion about something among some of the members of an upcoming performance titled “Fragments of Dream: Butoh Dance Relations from Over the Rainbow.” The dance/theater ...

Renowned South African choreographer, academic researcher, and theatre-maker jackï job is set to unveil a captivating exploration of artistic engagement through her latest collaboration, 1–2–3 As One: ...