Butoh
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Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 th
Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno
Butoh performers
Jay Hirabayashi performs a butoh dance piece in memory of his parents, Gordon and Esther Hirabayashi, at a Day of Remembrance event in Seattle, Washington, February 22, 2014.
American singer-songwriter Mitski performing butoh-inspired choreography in 2022
Mitski
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Mitski Miyawaki, known professionally as Mitski, is an American musician and singer-songwriter. She self-released her first two albums, Lush, and Retired from Sad, New Career in Business, while studyi
Butoh
…their performance art pieces, Otherwise (2001) and The Australian National Anthem (2001), to Butoh. In 2019, Japanese-American indie rock musician Mitski began incorporating Butoh-inspired choreography into her live performances, including "highly stylized, sometimes unsettling gestures," developed with…
Mitski performing at All Points East in 2024
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Mitski performing at Paradise Rock Club in November 2016
Mitski performing at a concert in Seattle in October 2018