An “underground” festival now under way traces the history of the modern Japanese dance form of “butoh” against the backdrop of the postwar period of rapid economic growth in Tokyo. The ...
this has included the Japanese modern dance form butoh. On October 4 through 6, he and his company will perform his piece Deathbed as part of “Edges of Ailey,” a major retrospective on dancer ...
When he was exploring Butoh, he used to break into unused building sites and dance. EITAN BEN MOSHE (credit: Tomer Tzur) Created in Japan after the Second World War, Butoh seeks to break away from ...