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Free Student Performance bam bam boom____

June 1, 6pmLinks Hall, 3111 N. Western Ave RSVPMin Yoon has brought her work to us from Berlin, and for 4 consecutive days we have worked through images and themes of violence, victim, perpetrator, joker, and supported each other with our hands, faces, and hearts expressing all together. In Mins words: transforming / expressingintensities / violent impulsesrecently saw an enzo sign… a sign of…

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Min Yoon aka "Citizen Truth"

May 28-31, 2025Links Hall, Chicago, ILworkshops / student performance / solo performanceTickets and Registration coming soon About Min Yoon With post/butoh dance, vocals, and conflict studies, Min makes intimate, surreal, and psychosomatic performances and experimental moments to create moments of heightened complex / relational emotions, permission to go there, go deep, and look for what is…

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NexGen Butoh Lovers Showcase

Dovetail StudiosApril 11 & 12, 2025 Joyously funded by the Community of Partners through a 3Arts Project Award and a subsidized program at Dovetail Studios. This mini-festival will highlight artists working to carry forward the lineage and curious path that is Butoh into the Future. We are humbly and gratefully supported by donations by the community and ticket sales, which will be largely…

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Monthly Butoh Body in Chicago

We are extremely Proud to offer a Monthly Butoh Body Dance/Performance class at the Japanese Culture Center in 2025. Look for our classes (about) every third Saturday evening of the month, beginning Saturday, January 25. Register for any class up to May 2025, and be sure to use the Student Discount if you need to ❤ Looking forward to sharing Noguchi Taiso, Daoyin warmups, and many fun visual and…

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Explore Butoh: Body and Nature Workshop

Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh Workshops February 20-23, 2025 Embodying the Spirit. 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

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.  Joan Laage/Kogut ButohButoh…

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Piercing Heart

ONE NIGHT ONLYPiercing HeartCreated by Joan Laage/Kogut ButohCommissioned music by Bill HoristFebruary 23, 7:30pmAsian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N Elston Ave, Chicago, ILGet Tickets So many thoughts and desires pierce our consciousness, our hearts, sometimes settling, other times escaping through the fleeting air. Where do we find our freedom and peace? In confinement or total abandonment?…

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Spawned Seeds II (excerpts from 2015) from sara zalek on Vimeo.

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Nesting at No Nation

On Monday, Nov 4, we present Mari Osanai's special solo with a couple of opening sets with Special Guests Jinlu Luo and Luciana Arias at our favorite home away from home, No Nation T a π g e π t i a l  U π s p a c e  A r t  L a b in Chicago, IL. FREE

We are really looking forward to presenting Mari Osanai’s special solo with a couple of opening sets with Special Guests Jinlu and Luciana at our favorite home away from home, No Nation T a π g e π t i a l  U π s p a c e  A r t  L a b. Our roots have long been enriched here, and with that nurturing, continuous offering, and radical actions, this red palace continues to hold space for an infinite…

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Save the Date

Save the Date for Mari Osanai's Noguchi Taiso workshop November 1-4! We are still looking for a home to host this beautiful release technique workshop, a fundamental aspect of Butoh training. Mari is a dancer, choreographer and Noguchi Taiso specialist.

Water Body WorkshopMari Osanai Noguchi Taiso November 1-4, 2024 Mark your Calendars for this beautiful release technique workshop. While we are still looking for a place to host us, we hope to find that home any day now. We will update and the time and place ASAP. If you are someone with a space of more than 1200 sq feet and have open availability on that weekend, please be in touch. We are in…

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Collective MA

Come to witness the Collective of over 25 Butoh Curious performers after a five day intensive Butoh workshop culminating in this site specific, time based live performance. Tadashi Endo leading a Workshop at Outerspace in Chicago, IL USA, 2016. During the workshop, Tadashi gives us time and space to research yourself and our signature movements under his guidance. Our focus is on recovering,…

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Shinkai no tamashīi 深海の魂

Shinkai no tamashīi is a solo Butoh performance by Tadashi Endo. He expresses a synthesis of theater, the field of tension between yin and yang, male and female and their everlasting alteration. He is the master of being "in between'', that is Butoh - MA

Chicago PremiereTadashi Endo Solo Performance August 3, 8pm Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N. Elston Ave, Chicagodoors open at 7:30pm PURCHASE TICKETS 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 souls of the dead live in the depths of the sea. Every roar of the waves is their cry. Purchase Tickets Souls in the sea. Refugees, these people fled of war, desperate situations and hunger.…

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Shinkai no tamashīi 深海の魂

Shinkai no tamashīi is a solo Butoh performance by Tadashi Endo. He expresses a synthesis of theater, the field of tension between yin and yang, male and female and their everlasting alteration. He is the master of being "in between'', that is Butoh - MA

Chicago PremiereTadashi Endo Solo Performance August 3, 8pm Asian Improv aRts Midwest, 4875 N. Elston Ave, Chicagodoors open at 7:30pm PURCHASE TICKETS 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 souls of the dead live in the depths of the sea. Every roar of the waves is their cry. Purchase Tickets Souls in the sea. Refugees, these people fled of war, desperate situations and hunger.…

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Tadashi Endo

Chicago Premiere Solo Performance 深海の魂Shinkai no tamashīi August 3, 8pmAsian Improv aRts Midwest  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 souls of the dead live in the depths of the sea.Every roar of the waves is their cry. Workshop and Student Performance Five day intensive Butoh workshop culminating in a student performance. Dance or movement background not required, but a curiosity for your…

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MERGE

CURATED BY HELEN LEECOLLIDING MUSICIANS AND DANCERS IN UNEXPECTED CONFIGURATIONS PROGRAM ONE: HANNAH MARCUS & MITSU SALMON MARCH 28, 29 & 30 AT 8PM This program begins with Hannah Marcus performing bones fragile, a movement and live sound looping piece that explores moments of infiniteness, tenderness, and memory featuring Milo Sachse-Hofheimer. Afterwards artist Mitsu Salmon accompanied by…

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Moov Voice

Moov Voice, Fridays, Feb 2 and 9, 2024 7:30-9:30pm @BimBom Studios. Two hour workshop, combines classical vocal techniques with fundamental Butoh exercises, exploring vocal improvisation and playfully passing sound and movement.

Elaine Lemieux and Sara Zalek Fridays, Feb 2 & 9, 20247:30-9:30pmsliding scale $15-25@BimBom Studios Combines classical vocal techniques with fundamental Butoh exercises, exploring the physical sensations of sound on, in, and with the body.  We work up to group improvisational scores by playfully passing sound and movement in simple patterns. Each two hour workshop starts with connecting our…

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