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SUMMARY:Salish Sea BUTOH Festival MainStage Performances 2026
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a very special weekend of Live theatrical performan
 ces in downtown Port Townsend celebrating the unique artform of Japanese B
 utoh\, a unique form of avant-garde dance-theater known for its striking p
 hysicality and powerful themes of transformation\, dreams\, spirits\, and 
 connection to nature . The advent of Butoh (舞踏\, Butō) in 1960’s To
 kyo was a major innovation in 20th-century dance and performance\, not onl
 y in Japan but around the world. This event is a production of the 2026 Sa
 lish Sea Butoh Festival in Port Townsend\, Washington in celebration of ou
 r festival's 6-year anniversary. This show highlights veteran Japanese per
 formers of the 1st and 2nd generation of Butoh in the lineage of its found
 ers Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno\, along with 3rd and 4th generation Bu
 toh artists from all over Japan and the United States performing on the sa
 me stage. * FRIDAY\, July 31 — MainStage Performance # 1 8:00 PM – Doo
 rs open 8:15 PM to 10:15 PM – showtime Artist LINEUP for MAINSTAGE PERFO
 RMANCE Night # 1 EMIKO AGATSUMA (Tokyo\, Japan) Iván Espinosa with Live m
 usic by Katinka Kleijn – INTERMISSION – YUMIKO YOSHIOKA (Tokyo/Berlin\
 , Germany) * SATURDAY\, August 1st — MainStage Performance # 2 8:00 PM 
 – Doors open 8:15 PM to 10:15 PM – showtime Artist LINEUP for MAINSTAG
 E PERFORMANCE Night # 2 MŌE YAMAMOTO and KEI SHIRASAKA (Kanazawa\, Japan)
  – INTERMISSION – AKIRA KASAI (Tokyo\, Japan) * SUNDAY\, August 2 — 
 MainStage Performance # 3 8:00 PM – Doors open 8:15 PM to 10:15 PM – s
 howtime Artist LINEUP for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE Night # 3 JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT
  BUTOH MITSUTAKE KASAI from Tokyo\, Japan – INTERMISSION – KOTA YAMAZA
 KI + MINA NISHIMURA from Tokyo\, Japan $25 general admission | BUY YOUR TI
 CKETS FOR THE SHOW at: https://www.givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026 To re
 ad full biographies of the artist lineup and guest performers\, go to: htt
 ps://www.salishseabutoh.com/workshop-teachers ABOUT BUTOH: Butoh (舞踏\,
  Butō) is a form of avant-garde dance-theater that originated in Tokyo\, 
 Japan after WWII. It is characterized by physical movements that tend towa
 rds the earth and the subconscious. Butoh\, which is influenced by Surreal
 ism\, Neo-Dada\, German Expressionism\, French avant-garde literature\, Ja
 panese theatre\, and East Asian spiritual thought\, was first developed in
  the late 1950s and 1960s through experimental collaborations led by its c
 hief founder and architect Tatsumi Hijikata. Later on\, women and female B
 utoh dancers that studied with Hijikata such as Yoko Ashikawa\, Saga Kobay
 ashi and Natsu Nakajima -- as well as pioneering Japanese dancers like Kaz
 uo Ohno and Akira Kasai -- profoundly influenced the course of the art for
 m and its development abroad. Hijikata and his collaborators established B
 utoh as a dance form that is disciplined and rigorous yet spontaneous and 
 idiosyncratic\, intellectual and experimental while grounded in the human 
 body. Instead of aspiring to an aesthetic ideal\, Butoh reveals the primor
 dial human being and the inner world. It implies total presence where danc
 e is an expression of being in the world as well as containing the world w
 ithin oneself. Butoh grows from themes such as dreams\, ghosts\, androgyny
 \, nature and ecology\, solitude\, and the natural cycles of life and deat
 h. ABOUT SALISH SEA BUTOH: Salish Sea Butoh Festival is an annual dance & 
 performance festival that takes place in Port Townsend\, Washington to dee
 pen the study and exploration of Japanese Butoh. The festival was original
 ly co-founded in 2021 by Iván-Daniel Espinosa and Cosmo Rapaport. Under E
 spinosa's leadership\, it has quickly grown to become one of the largest a
 ctive Butoh festivals in the United States with a robust teaching artist l
 ineup of renowned Japanese teachers from the senior generation of Butoh. N
 ow in its sixth year\, Salish Sea Butoh continues to be the only artistic 
 organization consistently bringing international Butoh artists to the Olym
 pic Peninsula and producing an annual festival that features both Japanese
  guest artists from overseas and regional performers from the Pacific Nort
 hwest.\n\nhttps://mycityscene.com/71961-9c9e6bdd
LOCATION:American Legion Hall (Post 26)\, 209 Monroe Street\, Port Townsend
 \, WA 98368\, United States
URL:https://mycityscene.com/71961-9c9e6bdd
DTSTAMP:20261112T142639Z
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