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SUMMARY:Queer Butoh 2025
DESCRIPTION:Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute & The Brick Theater present\nQueer Butoh 2025\nEmbodied Visions: Painting\, Dance\, and Radical Transformation\nJune 25-28\, 2025\nat The Brick Theater — 579 Metropolitan Ave\nTickets $25-50 \n\n“…queer themes and imagery have been recurring\, if not instrumental\, in Butoh. The concepts of otherness and ambiguity\, particularly with respect to gender identity and sexuality\, permeate its narratives. Drag\, androgyny and fluidity are staple elements.” – Cassidy George\, The New York Times \nThis year’s Queer Butoh Festival invites audiences into a space where the painted image meets the moving body\, and where adversity is not only acknowledged but danced through and transcended. \nSpanning intimate solos\, collaborative rituals\, and lush visual worlds\, the 2025 edition draws inspiration from the brushstrokes of artists like Nerys Johnson\, Leonora Carrington\, and Shahryar Shahamat\, whose works ignite new choreographic forms. In Down Amongst the Plants\, painterly textures are transposed into motion; Leonora channels surrealist imagery into a queer\, mythic dance of resistance; while Human on Human merges the visceral expressiveness of Butoh with the immediacy of live painting\, creating a raw\, evolving canvas of movement and color. \nBut beyond aesthetics\, this year’s festival underscores Butoh’s radical potential as a tool for survival and reinvention. Whether confronting personal illness\, political oppression\, or the fragmented self\, these performances reclaim the body as a site of healing and defiance. Works like They Who Invite and Dove of Dawn honor the cycles of destruction and rebirth central to Butoh’s origins—offering audiences visceral\, transformative encounters. \nQueer Butoh 2025 will feature Ama (Cambodia/France)\, Alice Baldock (UK)\, Quentin Chaveriat (Belgium)\, and Juan Manuel (Mexico) June 25-28; Surface Area Dance Theater (UK) on June 25 +26 only; and River Luna and New York Butoh institute on June 27 + 28 only. \n*** \nFEATURED WORKS: \nDown Amongst the Plants is inspired by the life and work of Welsh artist Nerys Johnson (1942-2001). Johnson’s exploration of movement and transformation began with her studies of the similarities between human and plant forms. In the last two years of her life\, she developed a specific compositional style\, creating a series of small\, brightly coloured watercolours. Vangeline\, from the New York Butoh Institute\, was invited by Surface Area Dance theatre and North East Museums in the UK to visit the Nerys Johnson archive. In response to the archive\, Vangeline choreographed a dance-for-camera piece\, which Vangeline has since adapted into a live performance by Surface Area Dance Theatre. \nLeonora by Quentin Chaveriat is a performance inspired by butoh dance and based on the story “Down Under” by surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington\, that describes in detail her psychiatric internment in a Spanish institution following the arrest of her lover Max Ernst as an opponent of the Nazi regime. As a queer metamorphosis\, Quentin is transformed during the performance into a fantastical Leonora and plunges into his hallucinations to inhabit a madness that is not only a delirium\, but also the refusal of a specific political context (the rise of fascism) and a resilience in relation to an alienating psychiatric system. \nDove Of Dawn by Ama: A delicate journey of a shadow collapsing through its spine\, falling into the dark night of the soul\, into death\, only to be reborn with a breath. Slowly embracing its wounds\, it rises like a sensual lotus\, finding its wings. This Butoh piece explores resilience\, individuation\, and freedom\, where shadow and light intertwine\, inviting the full embrace of one’s being through the transformative power of movement. \nFruit of My Woman by Alice Baldock: In response to the suffocating pressures of ‘straight time’ (to get married\, to have children\, etc)\, a woman blurs the boundary between human\, non-human\, and celestial. Inspired by the short-story by Han Kang of the same name. \nCHON  by Juan Manuel is a piece inspired by the main elements that make up organic life on Earth. It shows\, stage by stage\, the materialization of life and the changes in matter that are part of any living being on this planet. \nThey Who Invite by River Luna: The 13th century Zen master Dōgen Zenji wrote\, “In birth there is nothing but birth\, and in death there is nothing but death. Accordingly\, when birth comes\, face and actualize birth\, and when death comes\, face and actualize death. Do not avoid them or desire them.” He also wrote\, “Know that there are innumerable beings in yourself\, where there is birth and there is death.” They Who Invite are the Japanese deities Izanami and Izanagi; among their stories\, is a tale of a descent into the underworld. This piece is dedicated to River’s son\, Kirby. \nHuman on Human—New York Butoh Institute. Choreographed by Vangeline and inspired by the eponymous work by Iranian Painter Shahryar Shahamat. Featuring Ever Bussey\, Lila Klatz\, Catherine Winger\, Robyn Wong\, Eric Lichtenstein\, and Shahryar Shahamat\, Human on Human transforms the stage into a living artwork\, fusing Butoh with the act of painting in real time. \n  \n*** \n \nThe Brick is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. We rely on the generosity of our patrons. Consider giving a tax-deductible donation today to help make The Brick a sustainable hub of experimental performance for many years to come. Donate Here or Join Our Patreon \nA Note on Health and Safety: The Brick is a mask optional space while remaining committed to the health of all our patrons\, artists\, and staff. In consideration of the health and safety of others\, The Brick strongly suggests that audience members remain masked during the performance. If you need a mask\, we have some available at the box office free of charge. If you are feeling ill or have recently been exposed to a virus or other contagion such as COVID-19\, please stay at home out of respect for the performers and the other patrons. In the event you cannot make it due to illness or exposure\, contact the box office for a refund at boxoffice@bricktheater.com.\n\nA Note on Accessibility: The Brick Theater is conveniently located off the Lorimer stop on the L train. That stop has an elevator from the street to the platform. Our theater has a driveway leading up to the door\, which means you can access it directly from the street without having to go over a curb. Our front door is ADA compliant. There is a small ramp with an ADA compliant grade that leads up to the box office window and further on to the house. We are happy to reserve accessible seats for folks who need them. If you’d like to do so\, or if you would like to ask further questions in advance of being in the space\, or if you would like to enter in advance of our house opening (due to our seating not being assigned)\, please email: cameron@bricktheater.com.\n\nQuestions about Content? Posted just to the right of the box office at the Brick box\, we have a detailed content warning sheet for each production. You can check this list if you so choose. We also will have clearly posted signs where you check in for any productions that use loud sounds\, flashing lights\, fog\, or similar.
URL:https://www.bricktheater.com/event/queer-butoh-2025/2025-06-25/
LOCATION:Brick Theater\, 579 Metropolitan Ave\, Brooklyn\, 11211\, United States
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