RECENT EVENTS
Past Performances and Events
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TATSUMI HIJIKATA MEMORIAL IN SEATTLE 2019
January 19, 2020
Teatro de la Psychomachia
Performers: Kaoru Okumura, Aoi Lee, Vanessa Skantze
TATSUMI HIJIKATA MEMORIAL IN SEATTLE 2019
January 20, 2019
Teatro de la Psychomachia
Performers: Kaoru Okumura and Aoi Lee, Vanessa Skantze with Masaaki Masao, and Joan Laage with Helen Thorsen and poet David Thornbrugh
FIBUTOH, SANTIAGO, CHILE
October 2018
DAIPAN in “Corporate” plus individual solos in a park
BODY IS HOME: AIR UNITES US
September 22, 2018, Green Lake Park
An Earth/Body/Home event
Organized by Erica Akiko Howard
Sponsored by Arts in Parks (Seattle Office of Arts & Culture and Seattle Parks & Recreation)
WANDERING AND WONDERING
July 29, 2018
Kubota Garden
August 2, 2018
Seattle Japanese Garden
A free annual site-specific event directed by Joan Laag: Visitors to the garden will encounter dancers and musicians dispersed in surprising locations throughout the gardens as the performers engage in a minute-by-minute response to all the scents, sounds, sights and sensations of the gardens.
W&W Sponsors: 4Culture & The Artful Garden
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL BUTOH FESTIVAL 2018
July 5 - 15, 2018
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EARTH IS HOME: WATER UNITES US
April 14, 2018
Pritchard Island Beach
Watch dancers percolate from wetland to lakeshore as part of a live-streamed national movement choir. This free, outdoor performance produced by DAIPANbutoh Collective is part of National Water Dance 2018. The Earth/Body/Home project explores our connections to our planetary home and to each other through dance and contemplative movement.
Performers, Artists & Teaching Artists: Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Erica Akiko Howard, Trina Cooper, Joan Laage, Kaoru Okumura, Shoko Zama, Devin Bews, Leah Mann, Martha Enson, Abby Enson, Lynelle Sjoberg, Hayley Shannon, Emma Jones, UW Bothell students, and Vashon parents and kids: Holly, Utisah, and Walliud Durahim; Coco, Cassandra, and William Walchli; Shane Rhoads-Weaver; and Kairos Lamblin.
BUTOH+ #3
March 17, 2018
Youngstown Cultural Arts Center
Performers: Alan Sutherland, Ari Rudenko, Brooklyn Dicent, Carol Rashawnna Williams, Dhyana Garcia-Snyder, Erica Akiko Howard, Helen Thorsen, Jeffrey Robert, Mary Cutrera, Trio De Femmes (Lela Besom, Marina White Raven, Sheri Brown)
BUTOH+ #2
January 14, 2018
18th & Union (Performance Space)
Butoh+ #2 is DAIPANbutoh Collective’s second variety performance art event, a nourishing opportunity for art sharing, relationship building, and collaboration across our varied human experiences and artistic disciplines.
Performers: Helen America, Marcia Tate Arunga, Alycia Scott Zollinger, Izumi Fairbanks, Jay Hamilton, Kaoru Okumura, Sheri Brown.
TATSUMI HIJIKATA MEMORIAL 2018
January 20, 2018
Teatro de la Psychomachia
Performers: Joan Laage, Kaoru Okumura, Vanessa Skantze