Traditional art meets high technology on Jan 30 and 31 at *SCAPE when butoh dancer Elden Zachery performs Morningstar, ...

Semi-spoiler alert: Do not arrive late for the butoh company Sankai Juku’s Umusuna: Memories Before History this week at Carolina Performing Arts. Its opening image is one you might never forget. Here ...

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 ...

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 ...

The art of Butoh is anything but self-explanatory: A post-war Japanese phenomenon, the discipline is neither traditional in nature nor definable by set rules, although its intent tends to run deep and ...

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 ...

"Romance" isn't a word usually associated with the Japanese dance form butoh, but inkBoat's "Ame to Ame (Candy and Rain)," which opened Friday at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and repeats this ...

More often than not, the San Francisco Butoh Festival is an unintentional hoot. Amateurish, vapid, vulgar and pretentious, it can be entertaining for all the wrong reasons. The show that opened ...

Butoh, that decidedly anti-Western, post-Hiroshima dance genre known for its enigmatic, bizarre and impenetrable productions, has become over the years, if not exactly pop, then at least more ...

Kazuo Ohno, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, has died. He was 103. Ohno was credited along with ...