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 ...

I have never seen a nightclub fall silent. All eyes are on a solitary female figure in white body paint, writhing under a spotlight. She’s almost unearthly, a ghostly pupa. For many of those gathered ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Japanese Butoh group Sankai Juku made recurring visits to Dallas in the early seasons of performing arts presenter TITAS, appearing three times in the 1980s and '90s. Now the legendary troupe is back ...

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 ...

Butoh is dance – that much is certain. But more broadly, it’s an art form that defies definition. Whereas for most dance styles beauty is the watchword, for Butoh it could be seen as the antithesis.

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, ...

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.