“Butoh Medea” will be presented at Dell’Arte’s Carlo Theatre in Blue Lake on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m. These performances are $20 ($15 with a student/senior discount), with ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Press release from the Asheville Butoh Collective: The Asheville Butoh Festival is entering it’s 13th season. It was established in 2000 by Julie Gillum and the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre ...

BUTOH THE LINE: This year’s Asheville Butoh Festival features dancers and teachers Seisaku, center, and Yuri Nagaoko, right, from Tokyo. Local dancer and festival artistic director Julie Becton Gillum ...

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 ...