If dance is unfamiliar, butoh can seem unapologetically strange. Birthed in Japan nearly 60 years ago, butoh (boo-tow) dance has been mutating like crazy around the world, drawing on traditions ...

TO DANCE butoh is not to dance at all. The word comes from two Japanese characters: bu, which means "dance," and toh, which means "step." The term describes the Japanese-derived expressionistic ...

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.

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.

It's not hard to see why Sankai Juku is the leading popularizer of Japanese butoh, so wildly loved that co-presenters San Francisco Performances and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts counted ...

In a workshop, when asked a question she doesn’t want to answer, butoh artist Natsu Nakajima just turns away. Just as in her native Japan, a teacher will allow students to save face by not ...

His interest in dance was ignited when he was 19 and saw a photograph of Tatsumi Hijikata, who in the late 1950s had developed what became known as butoh dance. “It was very shocking to me -- it ...

KYOTO – Butoh has found a permanent home in Kyoto. Appropriately, for a form of dance that originated in Japan but has flown under the radar here, that home is a tiny 154-year-old kura, or ...

Japanese dance troupe Sankai Juku, under the direction of choreographer Ushio Amagatsu, returns to BAM for the first time in nearly a decade with this Butoh piece exploring the ravages of history ...

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.

Dive into the world of Butoh with artist Vangeline, exploring its challenging nature and transformative power in correctional facilities. US airstrikes targeting Houthis ‘was an overwhelming ...