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 ...

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 Ritual Dance and Theater will present Raw Butoh Night, with a performance of "Happy Chocolate" by Vangeline and Coco Villarreal on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 7:30PM at StudiodB, Uferstraße 8-11 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “People who feel different feel at home in Butoh,” said the founder of an annual performance series, which this year will take place online. By ...

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 — ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...