Tadashi Endo (born 1947) is a butoh dancer resident in Göttingen, Germany. Endo is a Japanese national.[1] He studied theatre direction in Vienna before touring Europe giving solo performances accompanied by leading jazz performers. In 1980, he was hired as head of a theater program for the city of Northeim, where he worked until 1986. In 1992, founded the MAMU butoh center in the near-by university city of Göttingen. The center holds performances as well as training students of the dance form and holding an annual festival in the Goettingen Junges Theater.[2] Endo also tours internationally. In 2009, he choreographed Georg Friedrich Händel's opera Admeto , directed by Doris Dörrie and performed at the Edinburgh International Festival.[3]
Endo was greatly influenced by Kazuo Ohno, whom he met in 1989.[4] Endo's style is harsh and stark, sometimes accompanied by live or recorded jazz, a dance form that Endo sees as having a natural affinity with butoh.[5]