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Butoh performances by Spank Dance Company

"...Theater reveals a tableau of living art known as butoh. As different from the more familiar Western forms of..."

Dec. 10, 2010 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Still Now

Shrewd Productions' Still Now provides a fresh perspective on cancer through butoh

"...sensei, a master of the Japanese postwar dance form butoh, who is pushing her to feel "the unending decay..."

Sept. 26, 2014 Arts Review by Robert Faires

They Are Not Halle Berry

L.A.'s Hi Fashion are coming to Austin Pride to rock your butoh face paint off

"...RG: We're also drawing from Kabuki theatre and Butoh and Japanese fashion...."

Sept. 6, 2013 Features Feature by David Estlund

Who Gives a Damn About Big Range Austin?

The answer might be a lot closer than you think

"...it's not extraterrestrial, but it seems otherworldly: There's your Butoh performance...."

June 24, 2011 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Big Range Austin Dance Festival

The Big Range Dance Festival shows why that art is worth everyone's attention

"...but it was their loss: Program C, an improvisational Butoh session, followed after a short break. For the past..."

July 8, 2011 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

Spank Dance Company: Butoh

The dancers in this performance evoke nothing so much as machinelike armatures slowly, intermittently, gorgeously going haywire

"...Spank Dance Company: Butoh..."

April 4, 2008 Arts Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

Fast Forward Austin Does Compute

New-music champions science the shit out of its upcoming concert with The Difference Engine

"...a few unlikely collaborators such as Peter Bay and Butoh dancers. What quality does an artist or ensemble need..."

Sept. 21, 2018 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Fusebox Festival Review: Water and Tears

A butoh-inspired dance for two bodies existing as one

"...With the work, Seki, trained in ballet and butoh, gave space to a mesmerizing primordial intimacy. In a..."

April 22, 2018 Arts Post by Jonelle Seitz

Interior Landscape of the Emotional Mind

Chaddick Dance Theater stages vignettes throughout Ballet Austin's home, but they don't quite connect

"...by UT student Chris Donahue. Two figures in white butoh-inspired masks and draped in red fabric crouched on the..."

March 1, 2013 Arts Review by Jonelle Seitz

The Stage Uncaged

How a performative open mic From Iowa became a theatrical springboard in Austin

"...made an interesting piece of experimental theatre. Like this Butoh piece by Caroline Sutton, about dating and relationships, where..."

April 15, 2005 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

All the World SA Stage

The Debut of the International Theater Festival at San Antonio

"...perky Swiss clown and a father-son team of Japanese butoh dancers. (English-Italian) Magik Theater. $18...."

Oct. 22, 1999 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Flirt

"...and Dwight's. Caught in the emotional crossfire between her butoh dance instructor and his desperate wife, Miho struggles to..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

999 Eyes Freakshow & Surreal Sideshow Invites You to Step Inside an American Tradition

The beauty of the bizarre

"...his vision for a new carnival, with traditional Japanese butoh dancers sharing the stage with goblin musicians, "but it..."

Oct. 20, 2023 Arts Feature by Richard Whittaker

Ellen Bartel and Global Water Dances

Joining a global cause, choreographers invite Austin to the water's edge

"...Eve to perform a sort of nondenominational prayer, organized butoh performances in galleries and basements, and choreographed dancers on..."

June 23, 2017 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Movers & Shakers

A guide to Austin dance

"...or emotionally ("Somebody Else," 2012). Also, a performer-steward of butoh, the stark-silent-slow Japanese performance art, and a dance collaborator..."

Dec. 4, 2015 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Table Banquet

The nominees for the 2013-2014 Austin Critics Table Awards

"...Angie Obermeyer, "Chambers"/"Hazy Eyes"/Basement Butoh..."

May 8, 2014 Arts Post by Robert Faires

Toot Your Unicorn Horn This NYE

Eight gay ways to partying like it's 2014

"...artists Douglas Little and Emily Hughes. Firecrackers, fortune cookies, Butoh dancers, a Chinese Dragon dance troupe, a drag performance,..."

Dec. 30, 2013 Qmmunity Post by Lawrence Everett Forbes

Gay Place

Let's tuck '13 in with a li'l kiss (or a swift kick)

"...20,000 firecrackers, an installation of a "warren of dens," Butoh dancers, and (we bet) dragons. Tue., Dec. 31, 9pm...."

Dec. 27, 2013 Column by Kate X Messer

2012 Austin Critics Table Awards

For the 20th time, a big hand for the nominees if you please

"...Ellen Bartel, Mari Akita, and Adam Sultan, Program C: Butoh (Big Range Dance Festival)..."

May 25, 2012 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

School of Dance

Post-MFA, Ellen Bartel has a brand-Spankin' new choreographic point of view

"...connects with [Bartel's Nineties slow-motion troupe] the Creeps and Butoh and site dance and the way I like to..."

May 11, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

Top 10 (+ 1) Dances With Big Heart in 2011

Recalling when contemporary dance and ballet showed huge heart in 2011

"...3) PROGRAM C: BUTOH (Big Range Dance Festival)..."

Jan. 6, 2012 Arts Feature by Jonelle Seitz

The FronteraFest Way

Christi Moore's top rule for producing the annual festival: Just say 'yes'

"...poets, modern dancers, improv troupes, hip-hop artists, classical musicians, Butoh dancers, filmmakers; you have kitchen-sink realism, absurdist comedy, musical..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Antony & the Johnsons

"...Lou Reed crony. The Crying Light, dedicated to centenarian Butoh dancer Kazuo Ohno, who graces the album's cover, is..."

Feb. 20, 2009 Music Review by Darcie Stevens

David Ohlerking

The whirlwind force behind Austin Figurative Gallery is spinning away to Jersey

"...(with a little help from Ellen Bartel and friends) Butoh performances over the past two years. He has galvanized..."

Dec. 5, 2008 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

Austin Museum of Digital Art Performance Series 2

In Austin Museum of Digital Art's Performance Series 2, three artists sank the mind's inner core into a calm and melting psychosis

"...lingering and spontaneously melodic, to mesmerizing footage of a Butoh dancer trapped within an abandoned, dilapidated warehouse full of..."

June 25, 2004 Arts Review by Heather Barfield Cole

The Earth Moves

For choreographer Ellen Bartel, dance does make the world go 'round

"...The "it" that they did was movement reminiscent of Butoh: an extremely slow-motion progression from one point to another,..."

Jan. 23, 2004 Arts Feature by Wayne Alan Brenner

The North Project

Local theatre genius Ron Berry and his talented friends of the Refraction Arts Project have turned the Blue Theater into a snowed-under tundra, with an amazing array of multimedia effects, live performers, sounds, and moments real and imagined, all inspired by the frozen North.

"...all in one dizzying blast: dancers in hypnotically slow, Butoh-like movement dwarfed by sheer walls of white; a 15-foot-high..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Arts Review by Robi Polgar

Fusion Culture

The 21-century fusion palette of Shen Wei Dance Arts spans countries and centuries, from traditional Chinese opera and Tibetan Buddhist chants to modern Japanese Butoh and 16th-century English music.

"...company. With its elegant, minimalist movement -- influenced by Butoh and by the stately pace of Chinese opera --..."

April 4, 2003 Arts Feature by Katherine Catmull

25 Minutes and Nothing to Lose

Onstage, as in life, the impulse to be adventurous is often curbed by Practical Concerns, but FronteraFest is a performance jamboree that gives artists the freedom to go for broke.

"...their bodies covered with white powder, and enacted a Butoh-esque performance in which they posed as statues, vomited fake..."

Jan. 11, 2002 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

The Long and the Short of It

The expansive Cinematexas short film festival

"...improvisation of sound and body," featuring the emotive Japanese Butoh style of dance. Rounding out the Eye + Ear..."

Sept. 14, 2001 Screens Feature by Michael Chamy

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