There’s a moment in your first life-drawing class where your perception shifts and you start looking at the naked body in front of you differently. At least that was my experience. Instead of feeling ...

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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 ...

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YOKOHAMA, Japan (Reuters Life!) - No chickens were strangled at the gala performance for Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno's 100th birthday, a sign of just how much Japan's most provocative dance has changed ...

It's not hard to see why Sankai Juku is the leading popularizer of Japanese butoh, so wildly loved that co-presenters San Francisco Performances and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts counted ...

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 ...

There is something new under the sun: a combined festival of butoh and breakdancing, the brainchild of curator Nicole LeGette, who points out that both forms challenge social and physical boundaries.

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “People who feel different feel at home in Butoh,” said the founder of an annual performance series, which this year will take place online. By ...