Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s

Butoh America unearths the artists and networks that popularized butoh dance in the Americas, through a focused look at key producers and festivals in United States and Mexico.

Over the ensuing decades, highly-trained dancers and theater artists who were looking for innovative approaches to performance found their way to butoh training and wove butoh methods into their own genres, bringing butoh further into the mainstream.

Tanya Calamoneri stitches together the flow of people and ideas, highlights the connections in the butoh diaspora, and incorporates interviewee perspectives regarding future directions for the genre in the Americas.

Tanya Calamoneri is a dancer, choreographer, and Assistant Professor of Dance at Texas Tech University. Her primary area of research is Butoh dance. She also writes about issues concerning the migration of forms across cultural boundaries in a globalized world. Her writing has been published in Routledge's Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal, Dance Chronicle, Journal of Dance Education, and Movement Research Journal, as well as a chapter on Butoh pedagogy in the Routledge Butoh Companion and a chapter in Routledge's Intercultural Actor and Performer Training.