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 ...

SLOW DANCE: New York-based dancer Vangeline performs and leads workshops at the annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were ...

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 ...

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 ...

BODY LANGUAGE: Japanese butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi, pictured, and composer Hiroko Komiya are the featured performers at the upcoming Asheville Butoh Festival. Photo by Raul Bartolome A wisp-thin ...

On the third Thursday of each month, the lobby of the Salvage Vanguard Theater reveals a tableau of living art known as butoh. As different from the more familiar Western forms of modern dance as an ...

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 ...

The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women invites the campus community to attend a free performance of Butoh, a dance form with roots in Japan. Internationally known Butoh dancer Minami Azu will perform ...

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 ...

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

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 — ...