Article: NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL/AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

In art from postwar Japan and between-wars Europe, light and dark fight for soul and body

NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL

Various locations

October 4 through 26

AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE

New York City Center

131 West 55th Street

212-581-1212

Through Sunday

FIELDS OF BATTLE

Butoh performances affect my nervous system. Either my pulse slows or my skin begins to itch. I leave curiously uplifted or go home and have nightmares. Two backto-back shows in this year's New York Butoh Festival, presented by the intrepid arts organization and studio Cave, sent me into the street wrung out. The feeling might have been a kinesthetic response to the long solo Howl, co-choreographed by Berlin-based Yuko Kaseki and ...

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