Butoh, the dance of darkness, a primal Japanese art form

The Film for You on Instagram: "For his preparation for ‘Frankenstein’, Jacob Elordi studied Butoh, a Japanese dance-theater art form defined by slow, deliberate movement that exists between beauty and horror. Often called the “dance of darkness” or “dance of death,” butoh seeks to explore the depths of human experience, finding authentic expression through “non-intention” and embodying universal themes like suffering, transformation, life, and death. Since the Creature is born into the world as