Feifei Liao performing in the village ruins. Photo by and courtesy of Teo Swee An. Melbourne-based Tony Yap is a leading figure in Australian interpretations of the abstract Japanese dance form of ...
Butoh, the combination of dance, theater and meditation, is not for everyone. And performance artist Katrina Wolfe acknowledges her pieces are not for everyone. In her small Sumner theater, El Teatro ...
Like punk-rock music or paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, butoh rejects any mainstream norms -- Eastern and Western. Lofty refinement and sophistication, beauty standards, politeness and poise ...
In 1975, a Japanese dancer trained in Western dance forms founded his own small ensemble -- Sankai Juku -- in an aesthetic style labeled Butoh, which rejected undue reverence to technology and Western ...