As an underground dance style to emerge from Japan during the late-1950s, Butoh was wooed by Western critics and enjoyed great popularity from the 1980s to 1990s for its risqué appeal. Despite its ...

Here, Inuhiko Yomota takes on Yoshito Ohno (born 1938), the "mythical figure" of butoh — a genre so undefinable that poet Miyoshi Toyoichiro once called it "a dance, performance, acting, or whatever ...

We are between sanity and insanity, beauty and ugliness. Good and evil don't matter; emotion lurches from serenity to rage without warning. East and West, too, have merged: Leering Japanese ghosts ...