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SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL BUTOH FESTIVAL 2024

November 22 - 24, 2024

YAW Theater, 
6520 5th Ave S, Seattle 98108

Workshops & performances by 

  • Mari Osanai (Japan)

  • Eugenia Vargas (Mexico)

  • Tebby Ramasike (South Africa/France)

  • DAIPANbutoh Collective members

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11/16

Film Viewing

7:00 pm Tebby Ramasaike (South Africa/Netherlands)
Free - Sharing Tebby's work through video, interview, Q/A
At Tashiro Kaplan Artists Lofts, Vandenbrink Community Room;
115 Prefontaine Pl. S.; Seattle WA 98104
Questions: sheribrown@gmail.com

11/20

Workshop

7-9 pm Special Workshop with Mari Osanai (Japan)
Psychomachia, 1534 1st Ave S, Seattle 98134
$15-$25 Sliding Scale, Registration: psychomachia.arts@gmail.com

11/22,23,24 

Performances & Workshops

Performances

  • Friday program: Tebby Ramasike (video), Kaoru Okumura, Eugenia Vargas

  • Saturday program: Sheri Brown, Dhyana Garcia, Robyn Bjornson (trio), Mari Osanai, Helen Thorsen

  • Sunday program: Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Tebby Ramasike (video), Eugenia Vargas

Workshops

  • Saturday 10-1 pm Mari Osanai; 2-5 pm Eugenia Vargas

  • Sunday 10-1 pm Eugenia Vargas; 2-5 Mari Osanai

GUEST ARTIST
Mari Osanai (Japan)

Mari Osanai was born in Aomori (north top of main Island in Japan) Japan. She was trained in Classical Ballet and Modern dance at an early age and later studied jazz dance Tai Chi and Noguchi Taiso. Noguchi Taiso and its philosophy and theory had a great influence on her creations.​
photo by JennShaw

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 GUEST ARTIST Eugenia Vargas (Mexico)​ Vargas 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.photo by Alberto Guzman

GUEST ARTIST
Tebby Ramasike
(South Africa/France) 

A South African choreographer, dancer/performer, dance teacher & researcher and cultural activist, was born in Johannesburg in 1965. He started dance at a very early age training in different dance styles, firstly in both Ballroom & Latin and eventually in Ballet, Contemporary, Jazz, Tap and African.
photo by Karoline Jureviciute

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