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Casting a Light on the Dance of Darkness

Nov 2, 2024
0h 7m
★ 0.0

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“Butoh,” literally “dance of darkness,” is an avant-garde form of dance from Japan that few know about, and even fewer practice. As its only practitioner in Singapore, Xue tells us how she fell in love with this obscure, yet liberating, art form.

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