Summary • Tom Johnson's upcoming Butoh book is now available via Sixteen • Shot on Oshima Island, the series follows a troupe of butoh dancers in artistic, expressive acts of surrender

At the height of Japan's counter culture movement came butoh, a form of avant-garde dance-theater form, characterized by shaved heads, white-painted faces and slow, at times grotesque, movements. As the country at large began to shake off rigid, restraints in favor of radical modes of self-expression, butoh sought after a new bodily language that embraced the subconscious's full spectrum of beauty and horror.

Photographer Tom Johnson delves into this world in his new book, Butoh, published by Sixteen. Shot on the volcanic Oshima Island, the images — first appearing in Atmos — captures ghostly dancers a

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