POHRC was founded by Kae Ishimoto and Rosa van Hensbergen in 2013 with the aim of creating opportunities to journey into Tatsumi Hijikata’s historic butoh choreography as a way to discover new research and creative pathways towards butoh’s future. Much of our work has focussed on widening access to historic butoh knowledge – both embodied and archival – through translation. Since 2013, we have worked closely with the Tatsumi Hijikata Archive at Keio University Art Center and collaborated with dancers and researchers to organise practice-led research events.