Photographer Tom Johnson was introduced to Butoh by his friend Mari Ohashi around six years ago. “I quickly became obsessed ...

OBSERVATION, a Butoh dance trilogy devised and performed by Scoop Slone, at 3AM Theatre in Astoria. The program explores identity and perception through the works Origin, Mutation, and Entropy at ...

BODY LANGUAGE: Japanese butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi, pictured, and composer Hiroko Komiya are the featured performers at the upcoming Asheville Butoh Festival. Photo by Raul Bartolome A wisp-thin ...

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women invites the campus community to attend a free performance of Butoh, a dance form with roots in Japan. Internationally known Butoh dancer Minami Azu will perform ...

If Myopia: the secret boxcars of pubescence, Djalma Primordial Science’s butoh dance performance, is successful, then viewers will be viscerally reconnected with life’s most awkward stage, the one ...

Surface Area Dance Theatre, an innovative dance company based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, will join Queer Butoh 2025 on June 25 and 26. This performance will be led by Christopher Fonseca, a talented ...

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 ...

Seattle Summer Butoh Festival This dance practice was born from the devastation of WWII and the realization by Japanese artists that they would have to live with a heritage they could not explain, but ...

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The art of Butoh is anything but self-explanatory: A post-war Japanese phenomenon, the discipline is neither traditional in nature nor definable by set rules, although its intent tends to run deep and ...

Yes, watching Butoh for the first time is maddeningly weird, like so much in Japanese culture, but if you are the curious type it is also wonderful for reasons that are hard to identify. As an artform ...

Makah Days, a history center fundraiser and the Salish Sea Butoh Festival highlight this weekend’s events on the North Olympic Peninsula. • Makah Days, the Makah Tribe’s annual celebration, is set for ...