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 ...

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 ...

Here on a recent weekend, a group of people has gathered to begin a 100-mile journey on foot through the desert, a trek organized by Los Angeles dancer and choreographer Oguri. Four years ago, Oguri, ...

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 ...

In the uncertain realm between life and death dwell mystical creatures — tengu demons, yōkai folklore monsters and spirits of the dead. It’s these shadows that choreographer and director Kaiji ...

The stereotype of butoh includes very, very serious dancers, covered in rice flour and doing painful movement really slowly. But while the dance form, originally developed in postwar Japan, does have ...

Chances are you'll laugh or cry from fun or fright at "Curious Fish," a butoh dance performance slated to take place this weekend at culture/art club La Plantation. Butoh, the eclectic, avant-garde ...

3 National Black Theatre Opens 2026-2027 SOUL Series LAB Applications Opening the 2012/13 season at Irondale is the magnificent, intense and intelligent Butoh Electra created and performed by the ...

For last year’s performance of City/Escape, the members of Marianne Kim’s butoh-inspired dance workshop alternately crept and sprinted east down Randolph Street from the Chicago Cultural Center to ...

Ushio Amagatsu, a globally acclaimed performer and choreographer who was a key figure in butoh dance, died on March 25 from heart failure. He was 74. A funeral was held for close family members. A ...

Opening the 2012/13 season at Irondale is the magnificent, intense and intelligent Butoh Electra created and performed by the highly acclaimed ensemble, The Ume Group, running August 29 - September 8.