2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival

AUGUST 16—24, 2025 

PORT TOWNSEND, Washington 

LOCATION:
** ALL WORKSHOPS and ALL EVENING LECTURES take place at the SAME LOCATION:

FORT WORDEN State Park Conference Center BUILDING # 204 (upstairs) **

* SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

JOAN LAAGE and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO workshops @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

11:30 AM – DOORS OPEN for arrival and self-directed stretching/warm up

12:15 PM — OPENING CIRCLE @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

12:30 PM to 4:00 PM – workshops

4:00 PM to 5:00 PM – short break + SWITCH GROUPS 

5:00 PM to 8:00 PM – workshops

* SUNDAY, August 17

SAGA KOBAYASHI (Japan) and ESPARTACO MARTÍNEZ (México) workshops @ Fort Worden Building # 204

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ Fort Worden Building # 204

• Lecture and Q&A with Dr. BRUCE BAIRD on the “HISTORY OF BUTÔ: The Birth and Maturation of a New Global Art Form”

* MONDAY, August 18

SAGA KOBAYASHI (Japan) and ESPARTACO MARTÍNEZ (México) workshops @ Fort Worden Building # 204

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS 

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ Fort Worden Building # 204

• Lecture + Q&A with Dr. TANYA CALAMONERI on BUTOH AMERICA: Butoh in the U.S. & Mexico from 1970 to early 2000’s

* TUESDAY, August 19

JOAN LAAGE and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO workshops + STUDENT WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE 

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM – workshops @ Fort Worden Building # 204

2:00 PM to 3:30 PM – BRING LUNCH TO NORTH BEACH COUNTY PARK

3:30 PM to 5:00 PM – rehearse at performance site near North Beach Park (Battery Samuel Walker)

6:30 PM to 8:00 PM – outdoor student performance with Live music @ Battery Samuel Walker

* WEDNESDAY, August 20 

DAY OF REST + BUTOH CABARET @ Night

Butoh CABARET LOCATION: @ Fort Worden Conference Center Building # 204 (upstairs)

7:00 PM — pre-show lecture by Dr. Bruce Baird on the History of Cabaret and Butoh in Japan

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM — BUTOH CABARET

10:00 PM till Midnight — After party drinks & celebration @ The UPTOWN PUB (1016 Lawrence Street)

* THURSDAY, August 21

SEISAKU + YURI (Japan) and PREHISTORIC BODY THEATER (Indonesia) workshops

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS

3:00 PM to 6:30 PM – workshops

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ Fort Worden Building # 204

• Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Rosemary Candelario on “BUTOH ECOLOGIES: Dancing with Nature as Embodied Ecological Praxis”

* FRIDAY, August 22 

SEISAKU + YURI (Japan) and PREHISTORIC BODY THEATER (Indonesia) workshops

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops

7:30 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists @ Fort Worden USO Hall

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime

FRIDAY EVENING, August 22 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 1 @ Fort Worden USO Hall

• Rosemary Candelario  (Austin, TX)

• Joan Laage  (Seattle, WA)

– INTERMISSION – 

• Eugenia Vargas  (México) 

• Espartaco Martinez  (México)

** AFTER PARTY drinks and celebration @ THE IN BETWEEN SPEAKEASY (823 Water Street)

* SATURDAY, August 23

YUMI UMIUMARE (Australia) & EUGENIA VARGAS (Mexico) workshops + Mainstage Performances

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break + SWITCH GROUPS

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops

7:30 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists @ Fort Worden USO Hall

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime

SATURDAY EVENING, August 23 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 2 @ Fort Worden USO Hall

• Yuri Nagaoka  (Japan)

• Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Co. (Chicago+Seattle)

– INTERMISSION – 

• Seisaku (Japan)

• Yumi Umiumare  (Australia)

SUNDAY, August 24

YUMI UMIUMARE (Australia) and EUGENIA VARGAS (México) workshops

+ Special Performance “A Song for Sangiran 17” by PREHISTORIC BODY THEATER (Indonesia)

9:30 AM — studio doors open @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – workshops + outdoor dancing in nature

8:30 PM to 9:30 PM – special performance by PREHISTORIC BODY THEATER from INDONESIA @ Artlab Thuja

** POTLUCK DINNER CELEBRATION @ Artlab Thuja — BRING FOOD & SNACKS TO SHARE