About this Event
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival proudly presents:
* A LIVE PERFORMANCE GALA *
with veteran dance artists from Japan, Germany and the USA
Friday August 16th AND Saturday August 17th
Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show starts @ 7:30 PM
@ FIREHOUSE ARTS CENTER
TWO NIGHTS of Live performances by our 2024 Salish Sea Butoh Festival guest artists:
Performance NIGHT # 1 — Friday, August 16
* DIVINEBRICK / josie j (Los Angeles, CA)
* Ginger Krebs (Chicago)
* Sara Zalek (Chicago) & Shoshana Green (San Francisco)
Performance NIGHT # 2 — Saturday, August 17
* TADASHI ENDO (Gottingen, Germany)
* JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT BUTOH (Seattle)
* YUKIO SUZUKI (Tokyo, Japan)
Join us for an unforgettable evening of theatrical performances celebrating the unique artform of Japanese Butoh at the Firehouse Arts Center in Bellingham. Immerse yourself in the intensely mesmerizing art of Butoh and experience a unique blend of dance, theater, and performance art. This event 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 Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno lineages along with 3rd generation Butoh artists from all over the world performing on the same stage. Don't miss out on this rare opportunity to witness regional and INTERNATIONAL artists showcase their passion on stage.
ABOUT BUTOH: Butoh (舞踏, Butō) is an avant-garde form of 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 experimental, 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.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Firehouse Arts & Events Center Bellingham, 1314 Harris Avenue, Bellingham, United States
USD 20.00 to USD 40.00
