buto
noun
a contemporary expressionist dance form that originated in postwar Japan, first called Ankoku Butoh, or Dance of Utter Darkness.
butoh
-
a variation of
buto.
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Stone’s iPad, with its open sonic complexity, created a sense of space, a roomy aural soundscape in which jazz and butoh became elements not egos, not larger than life, just more life, the merrier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2025
The dancers moonwalk and roll their necks; their motions are smooth and spasmodic by turns, and several of them present bulging eyes and pained expressions that recall the existential intensity of butoh.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2022
It includes a response to the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, expressed through butoh dance and large-scale puppets by the Phantom Limb company, called “Falling Out.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 21, 2019
Katrina Wolfe is trying to “wake up the senses” with butoh, a combination of dance, theater and meditation.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 16, 2018
While some butoh dancers later came to embody an almost impenetrable stoicism, and others grotesque horror, Ohno expressed something more ethereal, feminine and ecstatic in his reveries.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 7, 2010
