Five decades ago in post-nuclear Japan, butoh innovator Tatsumi Hijikata shocked audiences with grotesque performances that upset established notions of esthetic beauty, resulting in the banishment of ...
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 ...
Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh will resume in-person butoh classes and workshops in New York, starting February 5, 2022. Online classes will continue to be offered via Zoom, along with an expanded ...
Japanese Butoh artist Yumi Umiumare moved to Melbourne in 1993. Ms Umiumare is visiting Sydney to attend her joint interactive exhibition titled 'Coffee & SerendipiTEA' at the Banktown Arts Centre.
Post-war Japan was home to exciting new theatrical forms. These included the often grotesque and contorted, but at times flowing, dance style “butoh”, created by dancer/choreographer Hijikata Tatsumi ...
Australia’s only international arts festival that focuses exclusively on Asia will bring a range of performances to Adelaide venues. Launching his first OzAsia Festival program, director Joseph ...
Butoh returns to Bratislava AFTER a long break, the Japanese dance form butoh has again returned to Bratislava – this time in the form of a one-woman-show by Sumako Koseki, a Japanese dancer living in ...