Butoh, the combination of dance, theater and meditation, is not for everyone. And performance artist Katrina Wolfe acknowledges her pieces are not for everyone. In her small Sumner theater, El Teatro ...

Feifei Liao performing in the village ruins. Photo by and courtesy of Teo Swee An. Melbourne-based Tony Yap is a leading figure in Australian interpretations of the abstract Japanese dance form of ...

Like punk-rock music or paintings of the Abstract Expressionists, butoh rejects any mainstream norms -- Eastern and Western. Lofty refinement and sophistication, beauty standards, politeness and poise ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1975, a Japanese dancer trained in Western dance forms founded his own small ensemble -- Sankai Juku -- in an aesthetic style labeled Butoh, which rejected undue reverence to technology and Western ...