History

A foremost butoh piece was by Kinjiki (Forbidden Colours), by Tatsumi Hijikata. According to a novel of the equivalent title by Yukio Mishima, a piece explored the taboo of homosexuality and ended with a smothering of a survive chicken between the legs of Yoshito Ohno (Ohno Kazuo's boy) & Hijikata chasing Yoshito off a stage darkly. This piece outraged a audience, resulted in a forbiddance of Hijikata from either the festival in which Kinjiki premiered & established him as an iconoclast.

Hijikata went in farther to deliberately function against conventional notions of dance, & inspired per works of writers like Yukio Mishima, Lautréamont, Artaud, Genet and de Sade, delved into worlds of a grotesque, darkness, decay & the transformation of the person into more materials like smoke, dust, ghosts & brute. He likewise developed the poetic & surreal choreographic-language, butoh-fu (fu means "word" inside Japanese), to help a dancer turn into more materials.

Starting from either the early Fourscore`s, Butoh own household budget a renaissance while Butoh groups began performing first outside of Japan. A best known one groups is Sankai Juku.

Butohs status now is ambiguous. Accepted as a performance art overseas, it remains fairly unknown around Japan.