The street where I live… Butoh in New York
Tanya Calamoneri
Excerpted from “Butoh in New York and San Francisco” published in Latvia in 2013 in English and Latvian, in “butos” edited by Simona Orinska.¹ Butoh dance is a post-modern dance-theater form that began in Tokyo in the late 1950s, instigated by founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Ohno Kazuo. It has since become a global diaspora, centered in many urban locales and intentional communities throughout the world…