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 ...

Inside every person, Yang Jong-ye believes, lies a house with countless rooms. One is left untouched, sealed beneath layers ...

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 ...

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. Despite its ...

Practitioners coming from Tokyo, Seattle and New York City ...

PORT TOWNSEND — The weeklong Salish Sea Butoh Festival is taking place at Fort Worden. “Butoh is like a contemporary dance theater,” said festival founder and executive producer Iván-Daniel Espinosa.

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 ...

Butoh Ritual Dance and Theater will present Raw Butoh Night, with a performance of "Happy Chocolate" by Vangeline and Coco Villarreal on Thursday, March 12, 2026 at 7:30PM at StudiodB, Uferstraße 8-11 ...

“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 ...

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 ...