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SLOW DANCE: New York-based dancer Vangeline performs and leads workshops at the annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were ...

Semi-spoiler alert: Do not arrive late for the butoh company Sankai Juku’s Umusuna: Memories Before History this week at Carolina Performing Arts. Its opening image is one you might never forget. Here ...

Kazuo Ohno, 103, a founder of an experimental modern dance style called butoh that took hold in Japan after World War II and uses dark, grotesque imagery, painstakingly slow movement and themes of ...

On the third Thursday of each month, the lobby of the Salvage Vanguard Theater reveals a tableau of living art known as butoh. As different from the more familiar Western forms of modern dance as an ...

For those looking for something a little different, the passion of flamenco, the grotesquerie of Butoh and the innovations of modern dance are on the program at the 27th Annual Dionysian Dance ...

In the uncertain realm between life and death dwell mystical creatures — tengu demons, yōkai folklore monsters and spirits of the dead. It’s these shadows that choreographer and director Kaiji ...

The dance style known as butoh emerged in the 1950s and 1960s as a highly original and local Japanese form. Very quickly, however, it became known, talked about and rhapsodized over in cities and ...