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 ...

Post-war Japan was home to exciting new theatrical forms. These included the often grotesque and contorted, but at times flowing, dance style “butoh”, created by dancer/choreographer Hijikata Tatsumi ...

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.

Japanese Butoh group Sankai Juku made recurring visits to Dallas in the early seasons of performing arts presenter TITAS, appearing three times in the 1980s and '90s. Now the legendary troupe is back ...

Artists interested in performing at the event may join the workshop on September 7 and 8 and learn simple choreography directed by award-winning director Vangeline ...

For this special event, Nakatani will perform a musical score accompanied by a dance piece in the style of Japanese Butoh choreographed by PhD student Iván-Daniel Espinosa, creating an immersive ...

Into the Depth in Off-Broadway at New York Butoh Institute/Vangeline. Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute are excited to announce a five-week course, Butoh: Into the Depth, set for July 8 ...

Butoh, a Japanese style of dance created in the 1960s, is as unique as it is intense. According to a Butoh expert who introduced last Wednesday’s performance of “To the White, to the Sky,” a Butoh ...

Discover Butoh, a captivating Japanese dance born from WWII chaos, designed to unleash the primal spirit within during intense performances. The drunkest countries in the world Iran brands US rescue ...