Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was an auspicious beginning: It was May 1959, at a dance performance in Japan where a man was ...

TOKYO — Kazuo Ohno, 103, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, has died. Ohno was credited along ...

He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...

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 ...

1–2–3 As One: A Japanese-South African Butoh Experience will be performed on 5 and 6 December at The Little Theatre on Hiddingh Campus in Cape Town. Accompanied by a number of masterclasses, this ...

Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and choreographer who brought worldwide visibility to Butoh, a hauntingly minimalist Japanese form of dance theater that arose in the wake of wartime devastation, ...

Renowned South African choreographer, academic researcher and theatre maker Jackï Job presents a bold, new, provocative collaboration of performance and masterclasses that explore non-Western dance ...