Butoh:The Darkness Amongst the Joy by Emily Burke an exploration of Butoh by a student of dance written as a paper for a dance course at Oregon State College in 2002. Thank you for your submission, Emily.
What is Butoh Dance? by Dan Hermon of Butoh Net and Tangentz Performance Group.
Butoh in the Late 1980's by Kazuko Kuniyoshi a critical article on Butoh in the nineteen-eighties and available only as a downloadable Adobe Acrobat Reader (PDF) document through the website hosted by Harmen Sikkenga of Kobo Butoh. To download the free Acrobat Reader, click HERE.
Towards the Bowels of the Earth: Butoh Writhing in Perspective by Paul Roquet. Published in May 2003, this short book (~80 pages) on Butoh was adapted from the author's thesis last year at Pomona College in California, USA. The thesis won the Asian Studies Thesis prize at the college and Paul decided to make the book avaliable online in the hopes of developing an ongoing dialogue about butoh history and practice. The site also has the book available for download in .PDF form. Thank you, Paul for sharing your work.
Butoh - Dance of Darkness by Harmen Sikkenga of Kobo Butoh.
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