Butoh Cabaret returns to the Primaltones stage this Día de los Muertos, Saturday, November 2nd. Enjoy an evening of butoh-influenced dance and ritual theater investigating life and death as transformative processes. This performance art show will feature local and guest talent in a dance between the worlds of the living and dead, something and nothing, light and dark.
Attendees are invited to bring a small offering, a token of significance, a photo, flower, or other symbol for a participatory moment. You will take it home with you!
Saturday November 2nd
Doors: 7pm Showtime: 8pm
$20 presale $25 at the door
All ages until 10pm
About 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 master 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 along the Oregon coast. 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 many other butoh artists through ongoing participation in Salish Sea Butoh events. Sophia is the daughter of flamenco guitarist and impresario 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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