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    • Voice MooveMoov Voice with Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek Next Workshop FREE Thanks to Roman Susan Berger Park Cultural Center 6205 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL Combines classical vocal techniques with fundamental Butoh exercises, exploring the physical sensations of sound on, in, and with the body. 
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  • A very red photo. Sara Zalek is in a leans over an inflatable mannequin on the floor. They have a full bodysuit on so their face cannot be seen. They strike a dramatic pose holding a material which hovers over the mannequin.

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  • Monthly Butoh Body in Chicago

    Monthly Butoh Body in Chicago

    Come experience our last class of the year with us on December 20! Celebrating one year of Butoh Dance at the Japanese Culture Center,…

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  • Moov Voice

    Moov Voice

    Moov Voice with Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek Next Workshop FREE Thanks to Roman Susan Berger Park Cultural Center 6205 N Sheridan Road, Chicago IL…

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  • Free Student Performance bam bam boom____

    Free Student Performance bam bam boom____

    June 1 6pm Links Hall bam bam boom____ transforming / expressing intensities / violent impulses recently saw an enzo sign… a sign of world…

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  • Min Yoon aka “Citizen Truth”

    Min Yoon aka “Citizen Truth”

    Min Yoon aka “Citizen Truth” leads a series of post/butoh workshops and a solo performance, dancing-being-in-time at Links Hall, May 27-31, 2025 Min Yoon…

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  • NexGen Butoh Lovers Showcase

    NexGen Butoh Lovers Showcase

    April 11, 12, 2025 @Dovetail Studios: Joyously supported by the Community of Partners through a 3Arts Project Award and a subsidized program at Dovetail…

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  • Explore Butoh: Body and Nature Workshop

    Explore Butoh: Body and Nature Workshop

    Embodying the Spirit explores endless questions: What is life? What is the human condition? What is the body? This workshop is a process of…

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  • Piercing Heart

    Piercing Heart

    ONE NIGHT ONLY February 23, 7:30pm Piercing Heart, 50 minutes Solo Butoh Performance Created and Performed by Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh Commissioned music by Bill…

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  • Nesting at No Nation

    Nesting at No Nation

    On Monday, November 4, at 8pm Butoh Curious proudly presents a World Premiere in Chicago: Nesting, a solo performance by Mari Osanai, contemporary dancer…

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  • Collective MA

    Collective MA

    August 10, 70pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere, Come to witness the Collective of over 25 Butoh Curious performers after a five day intensive Butoh workshop…

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  • Shinkai no tamashīi 深海の魂

    Shinkai no tamashīi 深海の魂

    Chicago PremiereTadashi Endo Solo Performance August 3, 8pm Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N. Elston Ave, Chicagodoors open at 7:30pm TADASHIENDO 深海に生き続ける死者の魂。 あらゆる波のうねりは彼らの叫び。 The…

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  • ExTra Terrestrial

    ExTra Terrestrial

    Yumiko Yoshioka lands soon in Chicago for another deep training workshop called Body Resonance. Based on Butoh and Organic Movement, we focus on the…

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  • Move / Move Collaborative

    Move / Move Collaborative

    Move Move Collaborative has adapted to center care and become an intentional space of exploration across difference. On Saturday, November 12, these performers and…

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  • Hot Mess! E6 & 7

    Hot Mess! E6 & 7

    Expect (Butoh) dance, poetry, talk show, music, free jazz, noise, video, glitch, interactive environments, improvisational scores, theatrical moments, the unexpected

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  • Into the Garden

    Into the Garden

    A two day Butoh inspired outdoor performance workshop in Evanston, IL culminating in a live public performance in hopes to re-inspire, to re-spark joy…

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  • Hot Mess!

    Hot Mess!

    Hot Mess! Saturday, May 28 Two Sets: 4:20 and 8pm CST at Elastic Arts 3429 W. Diversey #208 or streaming online at elasticarts.org/streaming. Featured Artists…

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  • HOT MESS!

    HOT MESS!

    HOT MESS! Open Broadcaster Software LIVE Improvising Environment. Saturday, March 5, 2022 @Elastic Arts 3429 W Diversey Ave #208 TWO SETS IRL and live streaming…

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  • Spring Training

    Spring Training

    SAVE THE DATES March 18-20, 2022 Three daily 90 minute classes with an opportunity for Q&A after the third class on March 20.

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  • Saturday, November 13: HOT MESS!

    Saturday, November 13: HOT MESS!

    Saturday, November 13: HOT MESS! Part 3 EXPERIMENTS WITH HYBRIDS IN LIVE AND STREAMING ENVIRONMENTS, in partnership with Elastic Arts Featuring Cristal and Julius…

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  • Yumiko Yoshioka’s Fall Schedule

    Yumiko Yoshioka’s Fall Schedule

    Yumiko Yoshioka is offering live classes in Europe this fall or spring 2022…if you are there or by any miracle able to get there,…

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  • Bob’s list (reprise)

    Compilation list of Butoh classes and teachers from around the globe. Compiled by Bob, edited by S. Zalek. This is an expansive list, but…

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  • April 9-11 Secret Rivers

    3 days of Body Resonance with Yumiko Yoshioka APRIL 9-10-11, FRIDAY-SATURDAY-SUNDAY Body resonance is a key to opening up the doors of an ever-changing…

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  • Desert Turtle

    Desert Turtle

    Mitsu Salmon will lead a Butoh, Japanese contemporary dance, workshop. February 27th – March 20th, Saturdays at 11am PST. www.rogersartloft.com/mitsusalmon to register.

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  • Bob’s Compilation

    Bob’s Compilation

    Bob’s Compilation is a solid list for anyone looking to tap into sensitivity trainings of mind body awareness from a lineage of Butoh training.…

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  • Body Resonance with Yumiko Yoshioka

    Body Resonance with Yumiko Yoshioka

    Belonging to a third generation of Butoh artists, Yumiko has developed a personal style of bodywork called Body Resonance, which integrates Butoh practice with…

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  • Online Workshops with Minako Seki

    Online Workshops with Minako Seki

    The Power of Imagination Series with Minako Seki July 10,11, 12 2020 70 minutes every day. You can choose to attend 1, 2 or…

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  • Safe Hiatus

    Safe Hiatus

    With sadness, and with a terrific need to respond in some way. Not knowing words, or combinations of words for these feelings, clearly in…

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  • Press!

    #1 Butoh Non Festival (various venues) Workshops and performances in the Japanese avant-garde discipline with local and visiting artists take place at OuterSpace Studios,…

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  • Conference of the Birds : Nejla Yatkin

    Conference of the Birds : Nejla Yatkin

    Workshop participants will perform in Conference Of The Birds, a series of six site-specific, interactive performances presented on Saturdays and Sundays in September in…

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  • Dance of Life with Hiroko Tamano

    Dance of Life with Hiroko Tamano

    Join The Renkon Project for a series of heart-opening experiences for the 80the observance of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, including Butoh…

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  • Save the Date

    Save the Date

    September 26, 2024
    butoh teachers × butoh workshops × news
  • Tadashi Endo

    Tadashi Endo

    June 6, 2024
    butoh teachers × butoh workshops × news × performance archives × performance events
  • MERGE

    MERGE

    February 29, 2024
    butoh teachers × news × performance events
  • Hot Mess! E10

    Hot Mess! E10

    September 29, 2023
    news × performance archives × performance events

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