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bu·to or bu·toh  (bt)
n.
A dance form developed in postwar Japan which rejects Eastern and Western dance conventions, expressing intense emotions through slow, controlled, and sometimes distorted movements.
[Japanese but, short for (ankoku) but, dance (of darkness) : Chinese (Mandarin) w, dance + Chinese (Mandarin) tà, step, stamping.]


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Shovels, old black suits, and barbed wire set the scene for a butoh exploration of William Faulkner titled Caddy
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