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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 ...

There is something new under the sun: a combined festival of butoh and breakdancing, the brainchild of curator Nicole LeGette, who points out that both forms challenge social and physical boundaries.

The Butoh and dance community mourns today the great Butoh dancer Ko Murobushi, who just passed away in Mexico. Ko Murobushi is one of the best known and acclaimed Butoh artists in the world, and is ...

Second-generation Japanese Butoh group Sankai Juku in "KOSA: Between Two Mirrors," which will be presented by TITAS/Dance Unbound on Oct. 13-14 at Moody Performance Hall. Manuel Mendoza is a freelance ...

Seeing upstate electro-poppers Leverage Models live is like watching a fireworks display. Frontman Shannon Fields is a powder keg of nervous energy, belting words through a megaphone, jangling a ...

Naropa University guest artist Katsura Kan is a master Butoh artist and ranks among Japan’s first generation of Butoh. The Kyoto native studied at the Kongo School, formed his own multinational dance ...

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 ...

Butoh is dance – that much is certain. But more broadly, it’s an art form that defies definition. Whereas for most dance styles beauty is the watchword, for Butoh it could be seen as the antithesis.

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 ...