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- noun A form of Japanese contemporary dance.
- adjective Pertaining to butoh.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kazuo Ohno, 103, a founder of an experimental modern dance style called butoh that took hold in Japan after World War II and uses dark, grotesque imagery, painstakingly slow movement and themes of despair and desolation to reflect the atrocities of war, died June 1 of respiratory failure at a hospital in Yokohama, Japan.
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Trudi is an aficionado of the dance style called butoh, and the performance reminds her of the interests she forsook to raise a family.
California Chronicle 2009
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Awhile ago Rojaks told me 'butoh' in Malay means 'ass.
Pocky! Pocky! Pocky! Jerine 2009
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Givenchy combined the bizarre extremes of the Japanese 'butoh' dance movement, with elaborate 'plumage' embroidery and fluorescent embellishments based on the construction of robot-toys, the polar opposite of Elie Saab 's extravagant red carpet Chantilly lace gowns, encrusted with crystals, and aimed at Hollywood royalty like Cameron Diaz and Scarlett Johansson.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Givenchy combined the bizarre extremes of the Japanese 'butoh' dance movement, with elaborate 'plumage' embroidery and fluorescent embellishments based on the construction of robot-toys, the polar opposite of Elie Saab 's extravagant red carpet Chantilly lace gowns, encrusted with crystals, and aimed at Hollywood royalty like Cameron Diaz and Scarlett Johansson.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Givenchy combined the bizarre extremes of the Japanese 'butoh' dance movement, with elaborate 'plumage' embroidery and fluorescent embellishments based on the construction of robot-toys, the polar opposite of Elie Saab 's extravagant red carpet Chantilly lace gowns, encrusted with crystals, and aimed at Hollywood royalty like Cameron Diaz and Scarlett Johansson.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Place Vendôme, for example, took inspiration from the traditional Japanese art of 'butoh', and the late master of this dance art, Kazuo Ohno.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I think they played all of the new album,: ankoku butoh:, as well as a few older songs.
"I, dread lord of shadows, With broken spell, Unto this rotting age, I bid farewell." greygirlbeast 2010
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My thanks to Kenji Schwartz of Seattle, for sending me a copy of The Sauropods: Evolution and Paleobiology, and to William and Monica for sending me a copy of the new Faith and the Muse CD,: ankoku butoh:.
Howard Hughes loves lava crabs and glacier penguins. greygirlbeast 2010
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I think they played all of the new album,: ankoku butoh:, as well as a few older songs.
"I, dread lord of shadows, With broken spell, Unto this rotting age, I bid farewell." greygirlbeast 2010
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