The Red Chador: A Butoh Activation
Sat, Jun 22
|Seattle
Anida Yoeu Ali in collaboration with the DAIPANbutoh Collective @ The Seattle Asian Art Museum, The Fuller Garden Court
Time & Location
Jun 22, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Seattle, 1400 E Prospect St, Seattle, WA 98112, USA
About the event
On Saturday, June 22nd, a Butoh performance activation of Anida Yoeu Ali’s The Red Chador will take place in conjunction with her solo exhibition, Hybrid Skin, Mythical Presence, currently on view at the Seattle Asian Art Museum through July 7th. Ali is a Khmer-Muslim American whose work uses religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness. The Red Chador emerged from a period of intense Islamophobia and misogyny and has been performed in 16 cities across seven countries since 2015.
In this live performance, Ali collaborates with the Seattle-based Butoh dance collective DAIPANbutoh, along with Leah Mann, Kawika Harold Costa, Martha Daniels, Hana Shiozaki, Betty Peralta, and live music by Leanna Keith, see bios bellow.
Butoh is an avant-garde art form born in a 1950s post-war Japan and is now practiced around the world. Articulated with breath, movement and embodied ritual, Butoh confronts and transcends lived experiences through primordial dance theater.…