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 ...

Butoh for 9/11, a free 60-minute ensemble Butoh dance piece commemorating 9/11 victims in Times Square, with live cello ...

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 — ...

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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 ...

1. Historical: "In May, 1959, Butoh pioneer Tatsumi Hijikata (1928-1986) premiered his seminal work, 'Kinjiki' ('Forbidden Colors'). It is considered the first public Butoh performance. The more ...

Art Complex, responsible for the phenomenally successful show "GEAR" in Kyoto, plans to open a new theater to showcase the Japanese avant-garde dance, Butoh. The Kyoto Butoh-kan, likely the first ...

Butoh, the combination of dance, theater and meditation, is not for everyone. And performance artist Katrina Wolfe acknowledges her pieces are not for everyone. In her small Sumner theater, El Teatro ...

Assistant professor of theater arts Mitsu Salmon creates original performance and visual works that fuse multiple disciplines, but she has a special connection to butoh. She has taught the unique ...

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 ...