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	Catch the Last Wave The San Francisco Butoh Festival moves on By Yafonne Special to AsianWeek A big wave is coming to San Francisco Aug. 3 to 11, and scores of people are getting naked to experience it. Getting naked, that is, in the sense of the art of butoh. The most naked dance of all, butoh is not just about shaved heads and bodies painted white moving at a snail’s pace on stage, but it’s about stripping all things down to their bare essentials. This visceral, mercurial “dance of darkness” from post-war Japan — founded by Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazue Ohno — has become the craze and main dish of many Bay Area artists over the last decade, thanks to Dance-Network’s San Francisco Butoh Festival, now the largest and most influential butoh festival in the United States... COMPLETE STORY...		Defending Our Youth (Feature) Asian Pacific, All the Time (in National News) Game Over in Little Saigon? (in Bay Area News) Ultimate Diversions: ‘Warcraft III’: Blizzard Does it Again (in Business) Even a Little Growl From Tiger Would Be Enough (in Sports) Catch the Last Wave (in A&E) Emil Amok: The Failure of Mare Urine (in Opinion)

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