Eugenia Vargas (Mexico)
​Eugenia has trained with some of the most recognized butoh dance teachers in Mexico, Japan, and Germany, performing choreographic productions of Natsu Nakajima, Tadashi Endo, and Yukio Waguri. She has performed in Mexico, Japan, Spain, Canada, Colombia, and Chile. Eugenia’s education integrates choreography, dance research, and literary creation. Her artistic interest is based on the question about the body, butoh and the composition of the poetic image on stage. In her workshops, Vargas focuses on the investigation of the electrical impulse as a spark of sensation to delve into the training of nervous sensitivity and transformation body, based on energy and its multiple qualities. She is the founder and director of Laboratorio Escénico Danza Teatro Ritual (LEDTR), a space that has served not only as an incubator for dance and interdisciplinary projects but also as an artistic residence and a formative space for butoh dance, from which several generations of artists have emerged or have been influenced. She is co-founder and director of Cuerpos en Revuelta - Butoh International Festival -, of the Seminar “Thinking from the body with and against butoh”, among several other initiatives focused on the practice and study of butoh. 
Eugenia’s piece: The dream of the moon
Music by Guillermo González Phillips
Produced by Laboratorio Escénico Danza Teatro Ritual
This is the choreography that takes up the first piece of the UMBRÍA trilogy, created collaboratively with Eugenia Vargas and Tadashi Endo in 2018. Now, Vargas recreates this piece to turn it into the preamble to the presentation of what she internally calls "Flowers for the Wolf Girl", a scenic offering for Natsu Nakajima, who died last March in Mexico City.

​​photo by Alberto Guzman