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Japanese performing arts
Bugaku, a court dance adapted to Japanese tastes from the dance and music of 8th-century China and Korea.
The Butoh movement, also known as ankoku butō or "dance of darkness," was founded in the 1950s by Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo.1
This postmodern movement emerged as a radical rejection of both Western mimesis and traditional Japanese aesthetics. In Butoh, performers eschew formal dance techniques to explore themes of primal sexuality and the grotesque.1