Looking for a bit of holiday culture, minus the Sugar Plum Fairies? Try a Christmas play with a Butoh-licious twist — no ifs, ands or nuts: Syzygy Butoh and Maureen Freehill present A Butoh Christmas ...

The cast of the 2021 Salish Sea Butoh Festival performs in Fort Worden Historical State Park in Port Townsend. After three years in Port Townsend, the festival moves to Bellingham for its 2024 run ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Butoh performance will feature Akihito Ichihara and students in costumes ...

Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly ...

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 ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The weeklong Salish Sea Butoh Festival is taking place at Fort Worden. “Butoh is like a contemporary dance theater,” said festival founder and executive producer Iván-Daniel Espinosa.

For those looking for something a little different, the passion of flamenco, the grotesquerie of Butoh and the innovations of modern dance are on the program at the 27th Annual Dionysian Dance ...

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 ...

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 ...