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 ...
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 ...
SARATOGA SPRINGS — The National Museum of Dance will host a performance at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24 on Butoh, a form of dance, performance and movement based on art that first appeared in Japan as a ...
Vangeline Theater's New York Butoh Institute will hold a Noguchi Taiso class series led by Melissa Lohman at its Wooster ...
“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 ...
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 — ...
Japanese Butoh dance breathes new life into a tale of Lady Macbeth, as a part of United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row (The Studio Theatre), 410 W. 42nd St., New York City, in an added ...
Stark white, pitch black, or drenched in gold. "During the full rehearsal on Thursday, I painted my entire body black — now ...
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 ...
Dance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets — call it the “men in tights” syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to say they ...