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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

2 Review Roundup: MAYBE HAPPY ENDING, Starring Darren Criss and Helen J Shen. On October 26 from 6-7pm, Visionaire presents a performance directed by Matthew Placek by renowned Butoh dancer Vangeline ...

“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 ...

Art Complex, responsible for the phenomenally successful show "GEAR" in Kyoto, plans to open a new theater to showcase the Japanese avant-garde dance, Butoh. The Kyoto Butoh-kan, likely the first ...

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. The more ...

La Lucha Arts, in association with the New York Butoh Institute, will present EL ODIO DE UN PAÍS / THE HATE OF A COUNTRY by Raquel Almazan on February 27 and 28 at 7 p.m. at the Puerto Rican Traveling ...

THE discovery that Sunderland is the last resting place for a visiting 15-month-old Japanese boy has become the starting point for a new arts project. Nicole Vivien Watson, creative director of ...

Suppose you combined kabuki, pantomime, modern dance, and avant-garde performance art. Suppose you added some haunting, atonal music. Suppose you stripped the performers of most of their clothing and ...