Akira Kasai Dance Unit at the Dance Center

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 20, 2000| Author: Hedy Weiss | Copyright information

If nothing else, Japanese dancer Akira Kasai can serve as an unrivaled advertisement for the remarkable youth-preserving effects of butoh, the radical dance-theater style that may be viewed as an aesthetic movement, a philosophy of the universe, or both. Whether or not you wish to spend 90 minutes with Kasai, however, is a very different matter.

At 67, the dancer looks like a terminally hip, slightly decadent club-hopper of 20. With a slight body as lithe and muscular as a young lynx, ...

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