A Japanese dance form, developed in the 1960s. Butoh is dangerous, provocative, sexually explicit. Moving across the centuries, it is this very physical approach to acting and movement that has characterized Japanese theater. And, since 1990, student actors at SFSU have benefited from the rigorous training in Asian theater techniques offered by Professor Yukihiro Goto.
Asian techniques is twofold.
You may watch a Sony TV, drive a Honda or ride a Nishiki bicycle to work. Once in a while you go out for sushi. To effectively communicate with an audience, theater must be inclusive. Traditional theater education, which emphasizes European and Northern American plays and techniques, fails to match the realities of our global cultural experience. Just as it's important for drama students to study Greek tragedy and Shakespeare, so must they also learn nonwestern forms in order to be complete.