Butoh Dancers

Dancers and choreographers of Butoh, the Japanese avant-garde dance form that arose in the late 1950s and 1960s, known for slow, stylized movement, white body paint and themes of death and the body. A person belongs here when the cited article names Butoh as the person's form or as a form they founded. It excludes modern dancers and ballet artists, who have their own groups. Its performers work in a deliberately slow, inward manner, often in near nakedness or ghostly makeup, and pass the form on through studios and workshops in Japan and abroad.