Exciting programs in the 'New York Butoh Institute Festival 2020' online this month by Deb Miller

First performed in 1959, by dancers Tatsumi Hijikata (1928"86) and Kazuo Ohno (1906"2010), the abstract, expressive, and unconventional art of butoh ("dance of darkness") developed in post-World War II Japan as an avant-garde reaction to the destruction propagated by the atomic bomb, the loss of identity caused by the westernization of Japanese culture, and the […] The post Exciting programs in the 'New York Butoh …

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