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 ...

Atsushi Matsuda, a Japanese Butoh dancer, performing on the street in Japan. Atsushi is featured in a documentary film Queer Japan Source: Queer Japan ...

Noguchi Taiso or Noguchi gymnastics is the foundation of Butoh. Professor Noguchi developed this release technique between the 1950s and 1970s in Japan, in search of a method “devoid of ego or ...

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 ...