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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

'Imagine yourself as an aeroplane", a woman in loose-fitting paisley pants and tortoise-shell sunglasses told the 15 actors, singers and dancers circled around her in B-Floor Theater. Leading by ...

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.

Exiting the Huilong (迴龍) MRT Station and following a sign that reads Losheng (Happy Life) Sanatorium (樂生療養院), you immediately find yourself surrounded by a huge construction site where a Mass Rapid ...