Question: Atsushi Takenouchi is a Japanese dancer that specializes in what form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations, and includes playful and grotesque imagery?

Context articles: African-American dance
Suzushi Hanayagi
Minnesota Dance Theatre
Jazzart Dance Theatre
Peter Randazzo
Butoh
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre
Atsushi Takenouchi
Restless Dance Theatre
Motionhouse

African-American dance has developed within Black American communities in everyday spaces, rather than in studios, schools or companies.
 These dances are usually centered on folk and social dance practice, though performance dance often supplies complementary aspects to this.
 Placing great value on improvisation, these dances are characterized by ongoing change and development.
 There are a number of notable African-American modern dance companies using African-American cultural dance as an inspiration, amongst these are the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, and Lula Washington Dance Theatre.
 Unlike European-American dance, African-American dance was not taxed in the fields of Europe where it began and has not been presented in theatrical productions by generations of kings, tzars, and states.
 Instead, it lost its best dancers to the draft and started requiring taxes from establishments in the form of a federal excise tax on dance halls enacted in 1944.
 Dance halls continue to be taxed throughout the country while dance studios are not, and African-American dance companies statistically receive less than taxpayer money than European-Americans.
 However, Hollywood and Broadway have provided wonderful opportunities for African-American artists to share their work and for the public to support them.
 Michael Jackson and Beyonce are the most well-known African-American dancers.
Suzushi Hanayagi (花柳 寿々紫 , Hanayagi Suzushi ) , (August 15, 1928 – October 1, 2010), was a Japanese dancer and choreographer.
 Born in Osaka, Japan, she found her way in the international art world through her Japanese classical dance theater forms and experimental performance art forms.
 For over fifty years she actively performed, taught and choreographed in classic Japanese dance forms and contemporary collaborative multimedia performance works.
 She appeared in Japan, the United States and Europe as a choreographer.
 She collaborated on many of famed director and designer Robert Wilson’s most revered works created during the years 1984 through 1999.
The Minnesota Dance Theatre (MDT) dance company and school in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded by Loyce Houlton in 1962 as the Contemporary Dance Playhouse.
 It was renamed the Minnesota Dance Theatre in 1969.
 Lise Houlton succeeded her mother as artistic director in 1995.
 Each holiday season MDT presents the ballet "Loyce Houlton's Nutcracker Fantasy" based on Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.
 Ballet Arts Minnesota and the company's school joined in 2006 to become The Dance Institute.
 The organization is based in the Cowles Center for Dance and the Performing Arts.
 Prince was a member of the Minnesota Dance Theatre.
Jazzart Dance Theatre - is a leading contemporary dance company in South Africa.
 It is known not only for its combination of Western and African styles, but also for its focus on social justice and community improvement.
 Jazzart Dance Theatre aims to be a trransformative dance company that reflects the changing social environment of South Africa.
 Meanwhile, Jazzart's training programme provides dance theatre training and creative interventions to South African communities most in need of opportunities to express their artistic impulses.
Peter Randazzo (born January 2, 1943, in Brooklyn) is an American dancer and choreographer known for his contributions to modern dance.
 From 1962–1968 he was a principal dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company.
 In 1968 he co-founded the Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) and its associated school, The School of Toronto Dance Theatre, with fellow Martha Graham disciples Patricia Beatty and David Earle.
 A prolific choreographer, the TDT has featured his works in performances internationally for more than 40 years.
Butoh (舞踏 , Butō ) is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement.
 Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo.
 The art form is known to "resist fixity" and be difficult to define; notably, founder Hijikata Tatsumi viewed the formalisation of butoh with "distress".
 Common features of the art form include playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and it is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion.
 However, with time butoh groups are increasingly being formed around the world, with their various aesthetic ideals and intentions.
Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre has been creating site-specific productions throughout Southern California and beyond since 1985.
 Originally incorporated as Collage Dance Theatre (CDT) in 1988, the company has created and presented over 100 dance performances in Los Angeles, New York City, Miami, Las Vegas, Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, Montreal, Hong Kong, and Russia.
 In 2010, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre celebrated its 25th anniversary; Duckler was recognized with two significant honors: an American Masterpieces Award from the National Endowment for the Arts to tour Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre’s signature work "Laundromatinee"; and a commission to be a part of the Night International Festival of Music & Dance on the Volga in Russia.
 Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre works exclusively outside of the traditional proscenium stage setting, which inherently invites the community to become the epicenter of the work.
Atsushi Takenouchi (竹之内 淳志 ) (born 1962) is a Japanese Butoh dancer who performs various solo works as well as collaborations; such as "Enclosure" performed in conjunction with Brighton based arts company, "Red Earth", on Hambledon Hill, Dorset.
Restless Dance Theatre is a dance theatre company based in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.
 Founded in 1991, Restless works with people with and without disability to collaboratively create inclusive dance theatre informed by disability.
 The company presents dance theatre works in multiple mediums to diverse audiences.
 Restless has an extensive workshop program for all ages.
 The company, originally called Restless Dance Company, changed its name to Restless Dance Theatre in 2008.
Motionhouse is a dance theatre company based in Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
 Founded in 1988, Motionhouse operates under the direction of husband and wife team Louise Richards and Kevin Finnan and the company aims to create startling, passionate dance theatre that fuses images, action and dynamism to surprise, challenge and delight their audiences.
 Imagery, theatricality and immediate impact combine with modern, contemporary dance and a focus on accessibility.
 Motionhouse also draw on theatre, circus, acrobatics and film to create performance spectacle with meaningful and resonant content which speaks directly to people through imagery and physicality.