“ATK doesn’t aim to abide by all butoh’s rules and incorporates other elements. One is wonderful music that includes harmonic singing by the large cast of dancer/singers and live saxophone and percussion by Jeremy Slater and Gregory Reynolds. The recorded soundscape includes music by Bloody Panda and Bryan Camphire....Continued

“Part Marcel Marceau, part Mick Jagger, Kasai would leap into the air but start another step before landing… his low groans and high sighs all seemed part of a kind of existential fun.” Dance Magazine

“Yuko Kaseki is the Ginger Rogers of Butoh. Time speeds up and then slows, and childlike play and sexual prowess whirl around with humor either wry or raucous.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Yuko Kaseki is the Ginger Rogers of Butoh. Time speeds up and then slows, and childlike play and sexual prowess whirl around with humor either wry or raucous.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

“‘Quick Silver” was full of piercing accuracy. With a prizefighter’s grace, he darted from spot to spot, collapsing backward onto the stage only to spring up in a mercuric flash.” – Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“Murobushi’s Butoh is a theatre of revulsion, convulsion or repulsion. The body is like a half-monkey, half-reptile. It recurves and always crawls on the round, full of violent energy, soft, anti-human, and cannibal. There is no form of Occidental physical naturalism.” – Jean Baudrillard, Theatre of Revulsion