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Butoh dance

Butoh is a Japanese dance form that emerged from the body's capacity to express psychological extremes, shadow, and states outside normal social performance—dancers move with intense slowness and exaggerated control, creating a grammar of gesture that feels more like embodied poetry than ballet. It assumes the body can express what language cannot, through precise distortion rather than naturalism.

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