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According to legend, travelling performers of bugaku, the ritual dance and music of the imperial palace, visited Hachimantai Town in northern Japan in the early eighth century, during the ...

SARASOTA — The Sarasota Ballet has added a work once called by former New York Times reviewer Anna Kisselgoff “the sexiest show in ballet” to its 2017-18 season lineup. “Bugaku,” a rarely performed ...

Maria Kowroski took to Balanchine’s “Bugaku” so well in her debut Wednesday night that, at first, I wondered why she hadn’t been cast in the ballet earlier in her career. But, on second thought, I ...

To Choreographer George Balanchine, the dancers of the Japanese Imperial Household, who made an American tour three years ago, offered more than an unfamiliar art form. They gave him a novel idea: Why ...

At an old shrine in Kazuno in Akita, Dainichido Bugaku has been held continuously for 1,300 years. It consists of seven ancient dances, kept alive through the centuries by local families. This is a ...