Butoh Dance Performance Filmed at Z Space in San Francisco
Updated: Aug 19
I love Butoh! So much fun to film!
Butoh is an avant-garde Japanese dance-theatre form that emerged in the late 1950s following World War II. Co-created by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, it acts as an anti-establishment counterculture movement that embraces the grotesque, absurdity, and extreme human emotions. Performers typically use slow, hyper-controlled movements and white body paint.
EKF Productions filmed this Butoh dance performance at Z Space in San Francisco, capturing the slow, highly controlled movement and dramatic visual language of this unique Japanese dance-theatre tradition. Butoh presents an unusual challenge for a cinematographer, requiring careful attention to movement, composition, timing, and the relationship between performer and space. This project is an example of EKF Productions' work filming dance, theater, and live performance in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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