We're pleased for the return of Butoh Cabaret Saturday May 11th. Join us for an evening of Butoh infused dance and ritual theatre to celebrate Spring and the blossoming of life that surrounds the season. A provocative dance infused art performance with a cast of talented local and guest dancers and performance artists.Saturday May 11thDoors: 7pm. Performance: 8pm$25 (Seating is first come first served)Please bring tips for the artists and the house if you can!Bar service will be available at venue. With wine, beer, cider, champagne and non alcoholic choices too.Primaltones Community Venue2925 S.E. Ferry Slip Rd. #122 (Aquarium Village)Newport, Or. 97365About Butoh:Butoh is an avant-garde performance art originally developed in the 1950s and 60s by Japanese dancers Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. In the words of American butoh icon Joan Laage, butoh is a "philosophy of the body," a process of questioning and exploring the boundaries of the human experience. Butoh can simultaneously deconstruct and reveal meaning that is hidden or unknown. Its unconventional movements and aesthetics invite those who are witnessing to reimagine existence and their own expectations of art, society, and the body.About Butoh Cabaret:Around the same time and place as the inception of butoh, dancers began experimenting within the cabaret and nightlife scenes of the Tokyo underground. Butoh Cabaret invites a more festive and flirty fusion approach to the typically dark and heavy themes of butoh. Butoh and butoh cabaret are informed by surrealist imagery and implement structured choreography as well as improvisation.About the Producer:Sophia Solano is an artist, activist, and community organizer currently living and dancing in and around Newport, Oregon. She began studying butoh in 2017 with Iván Espinosa and more recently studied and performed with American butoh pioneer Joan Laage, including several iterations of her environmentally charged project Earth Tomes. She has also been deeply influenced by workshops with Sheri Brown, Julie Gillum, Rosemary Candelario, Yuko Kaseki and Katsura Kan through ongoing participation in Salish Sea Butoh events. Sophia is the daughter of flamenco guitarist José Solano and over the past few years her dance work has explored the intersections of butoh and flamenco.
General Admission is first come first serve mixed seated and standing room only.
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