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

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

Suppose you combined kabuki, pantomime, modern dance, and avant-garde performance art. Suppose you added some haunting, atonal music. Suppose you stripped the performers of most of their clothing and ...

STAUNTON - Julia Vessey didn’t imagine that one of the biggest Butoh performances of her life would also coincide with the start of her ninth month of pregnancy. As the dance instructor rehearsed for ...

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 ...

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, ...

One of the world's most exciting dance troupes, Japan's Dairakudakan, breezed into town Friday night and gave us an extraordinary show. "Kochuten: Paradise in a Jar," choreographed by Kumotaro Mu- kai ...

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 ...

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 ...