Butoh on Wikipedia Butoh (sometimes written butô) is the collective name for a diverse range of techniques and motivations for dance inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement.

A Historical Highlight on Butoh AsiaWeek story August 2000

Butoh - Dance of Darkness by Harmen Sikkenga of Kobo Butoh

Butoh -- Dance of Darkness? by Christopher Keimling -Austin Downtown Arts Magazine

Butoh's Inner Life by Chitra Mahesh interviews Denise Fujiwara for The Hindu

Butoh in the Late 1980's by Kazuko Kuniyoshi a critical article on Butoh in the 1980s (.PDF)

Butoh: The Good of Going Out of Style by Alissa Cardone Brooklyn Rail Article February 2004

Butoh - Revolt of the Flesh in Japan and a Surrealist Way to Move © Copyright by surrealist Johannes Bergmark. First published in and written for Mannen på gatan, Stockholm 1991

Butoh:The Darkness Amongst the Joy by Emily Burke an exploration of Butoh by a student of dance written as a paper for a dance course at Oregon State College in 2002

History of Butoh: An Art Form In Transition article by Don McLeod (originally appeared in Melt Magazine in a slightly different format)

Mind-Body Learning by Butoh Dance Method by Toshiharu Kasai, MA and Mika Takeuchi

Towards the Bowels of the Earth: Butoh Writhing in Perspective by Paul Roquet. Published in May 2003, this short book (~80 pages) on Butoh was adapted from the author's thesis last year at Pomona College in California, USA

What is Butoh Dance? by Dan Hermon of Butoh Net and Tangentz Performance Group

What Is Butoh? A handful of Bay Area artists speak their mind several quotes printed in AsiaWeek August 2000

Estudos Sobre Artes Cenicas Asiaticas & Butô: Pensamento EM Evolucao & O Teatro No E O Ocidente. An article from: Asian Theatre Journal (costs 5.95 for a digital copy)

 

 

 


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