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History: Seattle Butoh Festival
History 2010 - 2026 · produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective
Year | Number | Theme | Date | Venue | Guests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2010 | 1st | Northwest Butoh WAVE Agogo | Nov 5-6 | Velocity Dance Center | Kokoro Dance (Vancouver, BC); Mizu Desierto (Portland); Sharoni Siegel (Boulder) |
2011 | 2nd | NEXT WAVE / Dance of Darkness | Jun 2-18 | Velocity Dance Center | Koichi & Hiroko Tamano (SF/Japan); Tanya Calamoneri (LA); Michael Sakamoto |
2012 | 3rd | Oct 22-28 | Velocity Dance Center | SU-EN (Sweden); Atsushi Takenouchi (Japan/Paris) | |
2013 | 4th | Summer Butoh Festival | Aug 1-31 | Citywide: Pioneer Square, Seattle Japanese Garden, Whidbey Island, Snoqualmie Depot, Olympic Sculpture Park | Community-wide month of events |
2014 | 5th | Spring: Solo Fest | May 30-31 | Taoist Studies Institute | Eight solo works by DAIPAN members |
2015 | 6th | Investigating the Global Body | Jul 10-19 | Broadway Performance Hall; Taoist Studies Institute; Kubota Garden | Diego Pinon (Mexico) |
2016 | 7th | Cultivating Olympia Connections | Jul 9-17 | Youngstown Cultural Arts Center | Olympia butoh ensemble; LimenButoh Theatre (Warsaw) collaboration with Joan Laage |
2017 | 8th | Hidden Histories of the Body | Mar 31-Apr 9 | Shoreline Community College | Natalia Cuellar / Ruta de la Memoria (Chile); Ken Mai (Japan/Helsinki) |
2018 | 9th | Awakenings | Jul 5-15 | Shoreline Community College; Taoist Studies Institute; JCCCW; Myrtle Edwards Park | Mushimaru Fujieda (Japan); Mizu Desierto (Portland); Crow Nishimura; Ginger Krebs (Chicago) |
2019 | 10th | (Re)evolution | Nov 1-3 | Taoist Studies Institute; JCCCW | DAIPAN members; Natsu Nakajima Legacy Workshop (Oct 18-20) |
2020 | Not held (COVID-19) | ||||
2021 | 11th | FemAlchemy | Nov 19-21 | YAW Theater | Vangeline (New York) |
2022 | 12th | Emergence | Nov 18-19 | eXit SPACE / NOD Theater, Capitol Hill | DAIPAN members with Fernando Rocha (Brazil) |
2023 | 13th | Unveiling | Nov 17-19 | YAW Theater | Shinichi Iova-Koga (San Francisco); Julie Becton Gillum (North Carolina) |
2024 | 14th | Nov 22-24 | YAW Theater | Mari Osanai (Japan); Eugenia Vargas (Mexico); Tebby Ramasike (video) | |
2025 | 15th | Nov 13-16 & 18-23 | YAW Theater | Atsushi Takenouchi & Hiroko Komiya (Japan/Italy); Natalia Cuellar (Chile); Maria Belen Espinosa Pena (Chile) | |
2026 | 16th | Nov 19-22 | YAW Theater | Maureen Fleming (New York) |
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