“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 ...

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

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 ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Dance By Claudia La Rocco ELEVEN students were walking backward in a crouch, eyes closed, with raw eggs cradled in their mouths and potatoes wedged ...

A Japanese dance-theatre art form lands in Cyprus this July as Dance House Lefkosia hosts a workshop dedicated to the Butoh dance genre. Led by Paris-based Japanese Butoh dancer and teacher Maki ...

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 ...

A radical Japanese dance workshop is being led by a pioneer of the form this weekend. Butoh, a physical art form that can incorporate myriad dance techniques, will be taught in a workshop at Kaufman ...

Dance Review | 'Kazuo Ohno 101' By Claudia La Rocco “Kazuo Ohno 101: 3-Week Butoh Parade,” a birthday party for one of the founders of the Japanese dance form Butoh is something for even jaded New ...

The instructor is down on his knees, peering between my legs, licking his lips like a pervert. "You're a woman," he tells me, "naked from the waist down, walking across a glass floor. Everyone is ...

As an underground dance style to emerge from Japan during the late-1950s, Butoh was wooed by Western critics and enjoyed great popularity from the 1980s to 1990s for its risqué appeal. Despite its ...