Winter

Join us for an evening of Butoh Dance Saturday and Workshop Sunday. Butoh is an evocative, compelling, and truly unique experience. Five internationally acclaimed artists will present new works January 24th.  A workshop led by renowned Butoh Master Joan Laage/KogutButoh January 25th. Discover the transformative power of this avant-garde art form and immerse yourself in a night of creativity and inspiration.

Butoh Dance Performance                                                                                                             

January 24th 8:00pm Tacoma Armory 1001 S Yakima Ave  

Tickets $20.00  https://events.humanitix.com/winter-sykrtfhs

Kaoru Okumura            

Ash Pillar: Carl Annala,  Joe McLaughlin, Tess Vanderkin and Nicole Walters. 

Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh 

Stevi Rose Kamphaus 

 Helen Thorsen with Mary Cutrera, Leatha McKenzie, Suzanne Parenteau, Amy Ward 

Embodying The Spirit Butoh Workshop

 with Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh January 25th 11:00 am Tacoma Armory 1001 S Yakima Ave Tickets $30.00 

Embodying the Spirt: the body finds its way

Butoh workshop taught by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh

This workshop explores innovative ways to create personal movement, emphasizing the space and stillness between movements within our bodies, and the process of erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation with nature imagery. The special focus for this workshop is working with the haunting and evocative paintings of Polish artist Beksinski, whose body of work greatly inspired Joan while collaborating with the much-respected Warsaw-based butoh artist Sylwia Hanff. Joan’s butoh practice and art are influenced by the Ohnos and Yoko Ashikawa and Atsushi Takenouchi and Tai Chi and professional gardening.

Butoh represents embodied movement, a shift from the conscious to the sububconscious, where the dancer accesses an inner state in the moment, and each movement, even when choreographed, comes from within and must be authentic. It is an improvisational and personal art form that can be both shocking and deeply moving, and an immersive exploration into the connection lost and found that humanity has with the intricate tapestry of the natural world.