Japan Society will present Nihon Buyo in the 21st Century: From Kabuki Dance to Boléro, with three performances only taking place Wednesday, January 24 through Friday, January 26 at 7:30pm at Japan ...
CONTEMPORARY DANCE FESTIVAL: JAPAN + EAST ASIA Announced At Japan Society Japan Society relaunches a proud tradition with this biennial event, which was last slated to appear in New York in January ...
He brought worldwide attention to a radical yet elemental form of contemporary dance that emerged in the wake of wartime destruction. By Alex Williams Ushio Amagatsu, an acclaimed dancer and ...
Kazuo Ohno, who brought the Japanese modern dance style of Butoh to the international stage and charmed audiences with eerie but poetic performances, died Tuesday in Tokyo of respiratory failure, ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Sahomi Tachibana, a Japanese American master teacher and performer of Nihonbuyo (traditional Japanese dance) lives in Portland. Tachibana just turned 100 in April. The legacy she ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — American actor and comedian Fred Armisen has just learned that his grandfather was a legendary dancer from Japan who, while living in Germany in the 1930s and ’40s, allegedly ...
Sahomi Tachibana was a petite woman. She stood at just 4 feet, 9 inches tall. But when she performed, her diminutive size didn’t matter. “Her presence would just fill a stage,” said her daughter, ...
The Nippon Domannaka Festival, more commonly known as the Domatsuri, is the largest annual dance festival in central Japan. In 1999, a Chukyo University student named Mizuno Koichi — the festival’s ...