Casting a Light on the Dance of Darkness

“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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Pardon My Wrench

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A Kiss From Your Lips

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Siren

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Double or Nothing

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Phantoms, Inc.

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La Jetée

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Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory

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Breakdowns of 1938

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TRAJECTOIRE

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Black Mass

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