New 'Butoh' Photo Book Captures Japan's Dance of Darkness

SummaryTom Johnson's upcoming Butoh book is now available via SixteenShot on Oshima Island, the series follows a troupe of butoh dancers in artistic, expressive acts of surrenderAt the height of Japan's counter culture movement came butoh, a form of avant-garde dance-theater form, characterized by shaved heads, white-painted faces and slow, at times grotesque, movements. As the country at large began to shake off rigid, restraints in favor of radical modes of self-expression, butoh sough...