Dance is a foreign language to, well, most Americans. Many scorn even the most popular form, story ballets — call it the “men in tights” syndrome. People who see dance, but seldom, tend to say they ...

Yokko (AKA Ren Gyo Soh)'s Butoh Medea directed by Brian Rhinehart received 4 awards at United Solo Theatre Festival at Theatre Row on 42nd street in New York City last month. The awards were announced ...

Butoh isn’t your everyday entertainment. A product of post-World War II Japan, it’s pointedly bizarre, glacially slow (think the MacArthur grant-winning duo Eiko & Koma) and culturally subversive.

It's not hard to see why Sankai Juku is the leading popularizer of Japanese butoh, so wildly loved that co-presenters San Francisco Performances and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts counted ...

“Gloomy,” “eerie,” “vulgar,” “avant-garde” and “conceptual” are adjectives often used to describe butoh, the genre of Japanese modern dance started in 1959 by Tatsumi Hishikata and Kazuo Ohno in which ...