Salish Sea Butoh 2024 Festival Performances
** Tadashi Endo’s participation and performance at the 2024 SALISH SEA BUTOH FESTIVAL is funded in part by a grant from Germany’s NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.
** Unterstützt durch das NATIONALE PERFORMANCE NETZ Gastspielförderung Tanz International, gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival presents:
* A LIVE PERFORMANCE GALA *
with Butoh dance artists from Japan, Germany & the USA
Friday August 16th & Saturday August 17th
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show Starts @ 7:30 PM
@ FIREHOUSE ARTS CENTER
BUY TICKETS HERE: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/salish-sea-butoh-festival-live-performance-gala-tickets-922245600417
TWO NIGHTS of theatrical performances by our 2024 workshop teachers and guest artists on the Firehouse Arts Center stage in BELLINGHAM!!
Performance NIGHT # 1 — Friday, August 16
* DIVINEBRICK / josie j (Los Angeles, CA)
* Ginger Krebs (Chicago
* Sara Zalek (Chicago) & Shoshana Green (San Fran)
Performance NIGHT # 2 — Saturday, August 17
* TADASHI ENDO (Germany)
* JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT BUTOH (Seattle)
* YUKIO SUZUKI (Japan)
Join us for a very special theatrical evening celebrating the unique artform of Japanese Butoh. This is a production of the 4th-ever Salish Sea Butoh Festival in Western Washington Pacific Northwest. These curated evenings of Live performance highlight master artists of the 2nd generation of Butoh from the Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno lineage along with 3rd generation Butoh artists from all over the world performing on the same stage. All ticket purchases include admission to a post-show talk for a chance to meet the artists.
ABOUT BUTOH:
Butoh is an avant-garde dance-theater that originated in Tokyo, Japan shortly after WWII. It is characterized by physical movements that move towards the earth and the subconscious. Butoh, which is influenced by Surrealism, Dada, French Existentialism, German Expressionism, Japanese theater, and Eastern spiritual thought, was developed in the late 1950s and 1960s through experimental performances led by founder Tatsumi Hijikata and his collaborators Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, Yoko Ashikawa and others. Their work established Butoh as disciplined and rigorous, yet spontaneous and idiosyncratic, intellectual and philisophical, yet grounded in the human body. Instead of aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, Butoh reveals the primordial human being and the inner world. It implies total presence where dance is an expression of being in the world as well as containing the world within oneself. Butoh grows from themes such as dreams, ghosts, androgyny, nature, solitude, and the natural cycles of life and death, and continues to evolve into a global artform in the 21st century.