from The New York Times obituary: Kazuo Ohno, a founder of Butoh, the influential Japanese dance-theater form whose traditional look of darkness and decay evoked for many the horrors of the wartime bombings of Japan, died on Tuesday in Yokohama, Japan. He was 103 and had continued to perform beyond his 100th year. Continue Reading Here.

Please visit the Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio.

Wesleyan University Press is proud to have published Kazuo Ohno’s World: from without & within.