Ko Murobushi

Ko Murobushi trained and performed with butoh’s creator Tatsumi Hijikata and was a founding member of Dairakudakan, the longest-running butoh company. His influential group Ariadone introduced Europe to butoh in 1978. Based in Japan, he leads the Edge Company and tours internationally throughout Europe and South America.

Ko Murobushi trained and performed with butoh’s creator Tatsumi Hijikata and was a founding member of Dairakudakan, the longest-running butoh company. In 1974, he founded the female butoh company Ariadone with Carlotta Ikeda; two years later he founded Sebi, a corresponding all-male butoh group. In 1978, Murobushi introduced butoh to Europe with a co-production of these two groups. Throughout the following decades, his work has led him around the world, to Europe, India, Brazil, Mexico, Great Britain, Austria, and Malaysia. In 2002, he was a participant in the U.S. – Japan Choreographers Exchange Residency and made his solo debut at the Japan Society.