Japanese Butoh group Sankai Juku made recurring visits to Dallas in the early seasons of performing arts presenter TITAS, appearing three times in the 1980s and '90s. Now the legendary troupe is back ...

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 Butoh and dance community mourns today the great Butoh dancer Ko Murobushi, who just passed away in Mexico. Ko Murobushi is one of the best known and acclaimed Butoh artists in the world, and is ...

Opening the 2012/13 season at Irondale is the magnificent, intense and intelligent Butoh Electra created and performed by the highly acclaimed ensemble, The Ume Group, running August 29 - September 8.

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.

Seeing upstate electro-poppers Leverage Models live is like watching a fireworks display. Frontman Shannon Fields is a powder keg of nervous energy, belting words through a megaphone, jangling a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Butoh is dance – that much is certain. But more broadly, it’s an art form that defies definition. Whereas for most dance styles beauty is the watchword, for Butoh it could be seen as the antithesis.