Seattle Butoh Festival 2021: FemAlchemy

Joan Laage in Rivers Running Red (by Antagon Theater)

The return of our annual festival!

Joan Laage, a longtime guide and director of the Seattle Japanese Garden’s annual summer event Wandering & Wondering, and DAIPAN butoh Collective are pleased to feature New York City-based artist Vangeline in the return of its annual festival taking place November 19-21, 2021 at the YAW Theater in Georgetown. The program order with some “teasers” are below for your convenience. Come join us!

Yaw will be following the governmental guidelines. Audience and workshop participants will be required to show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test 2-3 days before events and to wear masks.

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Kaoru Okumura & Aoi Lee (by Jason Renek)

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 19
ALYCIA SCOTT ZOLLINGER: Murmur
Delving into the currents and pulses of inner emotional atmospheres and the external social and psychological murmurs mothers have navigated throughout history.

ROBYN BJORNSON: Grandmother’s Hands
Weaving the past, present, and future with ritual and the natural world.  

 

SHERI BROWN:Red WolfeDragonfly

Choosing liberation and accessing holes that are already here to invite the return of innocence. 

 

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20
JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT BUTOH:Rivers Running Red
Inspired by an article exposing the practice in certain traditional societies of sending women off to the mountains to remain in huts and, all too often not surviving the harsh conditions.

DHYANA GARCIA: Exquisite Complexity
Embodiment of women’s voices narrating what feminine energy means to them and the role it plays in their lives: for them personally, for the Earth,and the current world situation. 

KAORU OKUMURA & AOI LEE:AWAHI 
An offering for sorrowful souls, as in an ancient folklore about the movement of twin females as a mystic ritual. 

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 21
VANGELINE:Eternity 123 

Celebrating the impact of women on the art form butoh, exploring the link between women, butoh, and “cabaret.” 

HELEN THORSEN: Pearl
Imagining each of our souls as a perfect pearl separate yet connected on a lovely string stretched out to infinity in the dark cosmos. 

WORKSHOPS
BUTOH WORKSHOP WITH VANGELINE 
November 20,  12-4 pm  [YAW]

EMBODYING THE SPIRIT: THE BODY FINDS ITS WAY WITH JOAN LAAGE 
November 21,  12-4 pm  [BASE next door]

Vangeline in Eternity 123 (by Marko Poolamets)

Thanks to 4Culture’s Sustained Support Grant and DAIPAN’s fiscal sponsor Shunpike.