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, our proud partner! We offer fundamental body and breath exercises, resources for future study, and opportunities to experiment with your imagination and to delight with your darkest soulmate. Look for our…
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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
Combines classical vocal techniques with fundamental Butoh exercises, exploring the physical sensations of sound on, in, and with the body.
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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 workshops, performances, video, and live projection on the Waikiki War Memorial Natatorium, August 1-9, 2025.
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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 without beginning or end.
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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 explores difficult truths beyond language, and against inherited social knowledge, through researching and dancing with unintentional/subconscious movements within impulsive improvisation, physicality, and stillness.
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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 Studios. NexGen Butoh Lovers Showcase highlights a diverse cast of emerging artists working to carry forward the lineage and curious path that is Butoh into the Future.
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arboring
arboring: winter sunday, march 2nd 1:00-2:00 p.m. Indian Boundary Park, Chicago (free) a Butoh vigil dedicated to and danced with our tree neighbors a ritual practice of slow endurance a meditation on collectivity through freeze and thaw brightness, thirst, whispers, skin, telepathy, underworld
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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 erasing and re-creating the body through guided improvisation inspired by nature imagery. Experience training methods towards a supple body and mind and investigate aesthetics common to butoh through creative explorations.
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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 Horist Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL
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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 from Aomori, Japan. Opening sets by Special Guests Jinlu Luo of Chicago and Luciana Arias from Atlanta at No Nation Tangential Unspace Art Lab.
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