Yumiko yoshioka biography of albert

Yumiko Yoshioka (吉岡由美子); Photo provided by author

As a Japanese Butoh choreographer, dancer, teacher, and art director, Yumiko Yoshioka (吉岡由美子) maintains that audiences have a lot of profound misunderstandings and misconceptions about Butoh.

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This is the third time Yoshioka has been invited by Moving Arts Hong Kong to coach Body Resonance Butoh Dance Workshop (HK) and the improvised work Black Milk and White Coal Butoh (黑乳白炭) in Hong Kong. Yoshioka talked to dance journal/hk about the serendipitous nature of her entry into Butoh, her Butoh philosophy, and the challenges and prospects of Butoh in Hong Kong today.

Japanese Butoh, known as “Dance of Darkness”, was initiated by Tatsumi Hijikata (土方 巽) and Kazuo Ohno (大野一雄) after World War II.

Compared to the elegance of ballet and the energy of contemporary dance, the anti-traditional and anti-aesthetic Butoh seems to feature distress and torture. Butoh dancers are freq