Butoh has found a permanent home in Kyoto. Appropriately, for a form of dance that originated in Japan but has flown under the radar here, that home is a tiny 154-year-old kura, or storehouse, hidden down an alley and squeezed between a medical college and residential buildings slap bang in the middle of the city.

With an audience capacity set at a mere eight people, and only two shows a week that are both on Thursdays, the team behind the Butoh-kan are well aware that butoh will continue to fly under the radar, but fly it will.

Keito Kohara, executive producer of Art Complex, the theater company behind the glitzy production "Gear" — which, since 2012, has been running across town in the old Mainichi Shimbun newspaper offices — has been at the forefront of establishing a base for butoh in Kyoto.