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Ushio Amagatsu (天児 牛大 Amagatsu Ushio, born in 1949 in Yokosuka, Kanagawa) is a Japanese choreographer known as the leader of the Butoh dance group Sankai Juku, which he founded in 1975. He is the a...
Kazuo Ohno (大野 一雄 Ōno Kazuo, October 27, 1906 – June 1, 2010) was a Japanese dancer who became a guru and inspirational figure in the dance form known as Butoh. It was written of him that his very ...
Tlalpujahua, Mexico
Tatsumi Hijikata's pupil and principle dancer for many years. Hijikata called himself "the image" and Ashikawa "the dictionary."
Göttingen, Germany
After studying under Tatsumi Hijikata in the late 1960's, Murobushi gave up dance to become a wandering monk in the Yamabushi tradition. He returned from his ascetic life in the mountains and co-fo...
Yamanashi-ken, Japan
Min Tanaka developed an approach to dance that he called Body Weather. In 1977, he travelled the length of Japan, dancing every day, from Kyushu to Hokkaido. He improvised naked and usually out...
Akaji Maro co-founded the group Dai Rakadua Kan in 1970.
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tamano was one of Tatsumi Hijikata's principle dancers from 1965-1972. Hijikata called him "the bow-legged Nijinsky."
Boston, United States and New Orleans, United States
1980s – Present
Director of CHIMERAlab Dance Theatre
Chicago, United States
Portland, United States
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Berlin, Germany
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upstate NY, upstate NY
Dharamsala, India
Nara, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
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Tokyo, Japan
San Francisco, United States
Tokyo, Japan
Sapporo, Japan
Sapporo, Japan
Helsinki, Finland
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Berlin, Germany
Seattle, United States
Mexico City, Mexico
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Seattle, United States
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Tokyo, Japan
Berlin, Germany
Motimaru is a butoh dance company created in Tokyo by Motoya Kondo and Tiziana Longo, two dancers trained at the Kazuo Ohno Butoh Dance Studio. They both studied for five years under the direction ...
Berlin, Germany
Tokyo, Japan and Paris, France
Salt Lake City, United States
Singapore, Singapore
Kyoto, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Sapporo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Sapporo, Japan
Kyoto, Japan
Toyama Prefecture, Japan
Toyama, Japan
Berlin, Germany
1970s – 2000s
was born in Tokyo in 1952 in 1972-75 studied under professor Yoshiro Irino in the Toho-gakuen College of Music since 1973 worked as a choreographer, performer and scenarist in various groups in J...
1980s – Present
New York, United States
New York, United States
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Tokyo, Japan
Seattle, United States
Brooklyn, United States
Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Tadashi Endo (born 1947) is a butoh dancer resident in Göttingen, Germany. Endo is a Japanese national. He studied theatre direction in Vienna before touring Europe giving solo performances accompa...
San Francisco, United States
1980s – Present
Shinichi serves as the Artistic Director of the physical theater and dance company inkBoat, founded by Shinichi in 1998. He has toured in North America, Europe, South Korea and Japan, often collab...
Tokyo, Japan
1960s – 1980s
Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽 Hijikata Tatsumi, March 9, 1928 - January 21, 1986) was a Japanese choreographer, and the founder of a genre of dance performance art called Butoh. By the late 1960s, he had ...