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Article: NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL/AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE
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- The Village Voice
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- November 2, 2005
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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 ...