london butoh dance company
London
‘I am an artist, choreographer and performer trained in Butoh since 1992. My
desire to see this type of work grow and evolve in the UK led me to develop this
organisation. Audiences and participants for this art form are now fully
established in the UK and Butoh has now become quite mainstream, and as familiar
to students and audiences as African, Contemporary or Indian Dance. But it is
important to acknowledge that Butoh is also always best when it’s not trying to
be mainstream – it is an edge dance, a dance of the underground, a dance in the
shadows’. (Marie-Gabrielle Rotie 2020) A Tiny History of Butoh in the UK. In the
1980’s Lizzie Slater (writer/historian) was very active in promoting Butoh and
organising performances and workshops for Japanese practitioners including:
Sankai Juku, Natsu Nakajima, Mutsutaka Ishi and Kazuo Ohno.
