This artistic current created and impelled by Japanese masters Tatsumi Hijikata, Akira Kasai, Yoshito Ohno and Kazuo Ohno during the 60's, tries to break established patterns or stereotypes, with a poetry characterized by carrying along a deep philosophy of life that stresses above all human essence and its need of expression.

Even though its roots can be found in the oldest folkloric Japanese traditions, Butoh Dance recognized influences from post-war European movements like the Dadaism and Surrealism but most specially from German Expressionism.

"The Butoh goes beyond the will of reason to enter into the art of the magic world", points out Gustavo Collini Sartor. "We work in formative courses with the laws of gravity: weight, space, time and flow.

 Etymologically the name comes from "BU" (burying with the feet) and "TOH" (so as to be able to fly with the arms). This idea gives West a different perspective, a point of view "in which feet and hands can be joined in the inside not in the outside". It is to go in favour of gravity and at the same time to go against it. The idea is to break with "beauty", with the idea of "myself". It is the "anti-myself", the "anti-show".

Collini Sartor, founder in Italy of "Teatro delle Immagini" has travelled around the world following his masters Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno, Asbestos-kan, Akira Kazai one of the founders of this discipline.

In his book Kazuo Ohno. The last emperor of dance, Collini Sartor affirms that the subjects the Butoh deals with are infinite. The mother, death, birth, dreams, figures of primitive savages, film stars and Flemish dancers are only some of them. The Butoh dancer tries to capture the subtleties of the soul understanding that dance is the movement of the soul that is accompanied by the body.

The soul is not there for others to like it. It is there to express what it has to express. The only requisite to do the workshops is not to lose neither hope nor faith. To persecute dreams and grab them strongly in the body, like a beautiful treasure that keeps us alive. Once there, it begins to wake up and move the world of emotions and feelings".