Hip-hop and Japanese butoh dance collide in 'Flash'
What happens when hip-hop meets butoh? In broad terms, it's a meeting that promises to be more of a car crash: Hip-hop is superfast, butoh superslow; hip-hop wows the crowd, inward-focused butoh ignores it; hip-hop is essentially African-American, butoh Japanese. On the other hand, as "Flash" writer-dancer-choreographers...