Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet

- Tatsumi Hijikata

Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's radical es…

- Tatsumi Hijikata

The dance of darkness must spout blood into the air, in the name of the experience of evil

- Tatsumi Hijikata

There are as many types of Butoh as there are Butoh choreographers.

- Tatsumi Hijikata

When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much…

- Tatsumi Hijikata