2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival
AUGUST 16—24, 2025
PORT TOWNSEND, Washington
* SATURDAY, AUGUST 16
JOAN LAAGE (Seattle) and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO (Austin, TX) workshops
11:30 AM – DOORS OPEN for arrival and self-directed stretching/warm up
12:15 PM — OPENING CIRCLE
12:30 PM to 4:00 PM – workshops
4:00 PM to 5:00 PM – short break + SWITCH GROUPS
5:00 PM to 8:00 PM – workshops
* SUNDAY, August 17
SAGA KOBAYASHI (Japan) and ESPARTACO MARTÍNEZ (México) workshops
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series)
Lecture and Q&A with Dr. BRUCE BAIRD on the “HISTORY OF BUTÔ: The Birth and Maturation of a New Global Art Form”
* MONDAY, August 18
SAGA KOBAYASHI (Japan) and ESPARTACO MARTÍNEZ (México) workshops
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series)
Lecture + Q&A with Dr. TANYA CALAMONERI on BUTOH AMERICA: Butoh in the U.S. & Mexico from 1970 to early 2000’s
* TUESDAY, August 19
JOAN LAAGE and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO workshops
+ STUDENT WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 2:00 PM – workshops
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM – BRING LUNCH TO NORTH BEACH COUNTY PARK
3:30 PM to 5:00 PM – rehearse at performance site near North Beach Park (Battery Samuel Walker)
6:30 PM to 8:00 PM – outdoor student performance with Live music @ Battery Samuel Walker
* WEDNESDAY, August 20
DAY OF REST (NO WORKSHOPS) + BUTOH CABARET @ Night
7:00 PM – pre-show talk with Dr. Bruce Baird on the History of Butoh and Cabaret in Japan
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH CABARET show!!
Featuring Butoh CABARET Headliner MELVIN COPPALLE from FRANCE
* THURSDAY, August 21
SEISAKU + YURI (Japan) and Melvin Coppalle (France) workshops
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS
3:00 PM to 6:30 PM – workshops
8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series)
Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Rosemary Candelario on “BUTOH ECOLOGIES: Dancing with Nature as Embodied Ecological Praxis”
* FRIDAY, August 22
SEISAKU + YURI (Japan) and Melvin Coppalle workshops + Mainstage Performances
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops
7:30 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime
FRIDAY EVENING, August 22 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 1
Rosemary Candelario (Austin, TX)
Joan Laage (Seattle, WA)
– INTERMISSION –
Eugenia Vargas (México)
Espartaco Martinez (México)
* SATURDAY, August 23
YUMI UMIUMARE (Australia) & EUGENIA VARGAS workshops + Mainstage Performances
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops
1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS
3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops
7:30 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists
8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime
SATURDAY EVENING, August 23 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 2
Yuri Nagaoka (Japan)
Seisaku (Japan)
Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Co.
– INTERMISSION –
Yumi Umiumare (Australia)
SUNDAY, August 24
YUMI UMIUMARE (Australia) and EUGENIA VARGAS (México) workshops
+ STUDENT WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE
9:30 AM — studio doors open
10:00 AM to 2:30 PM – workshops
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Lunch Break: BRING LUNCH TO CHETZEMOKA PARK
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM – group rehearsal at performance site (Chetzemoka Park)
7:15 PM to 8:15 PM – outdoor student performance with Live music @ CHETZEMOKA PARK
^^ The beautiful City of Port Townsend waterfront where our 2025 festival takes place. Port Townsend is a coastal city on the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the original location where we founded our festival.
^^ A photo of a 2021 Butoh workshop student performance directed by JOAN LAAGE at North Beach Park in Port Townsend, a scenic oceanfront park that we will be performing at once again for our 2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival.