2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival

AUGUST 16—24, 2025 

PORT TOWNSEND, Washington 

PLEASE NOTE: Our evening LECTURE series & artist talks are free and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. However, the workshops are NOT open to the public and you must register ahead of time.

The workshops are now SOLD OUT and there is NO space in the workshops for additional participants.

However, the MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES on Aug. 22 & 23 featuring guest artists from Japan are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. All are welcome to attend the MainStage performances. BUY YOUR TICKETS to the shows at: www.givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2025

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

FORT WORDEN State Park BUILDING # 204 (upstairs) — across the street from Madrona MindBody

* SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

JOAN LAAGE and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO WORKSHOPS

11:30 AM – doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ Fort Worden Building # 204 (upstairs)

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

9:30 AM — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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

9:30 AM — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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 — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching

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

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 10:30 PM — BUTOH CABARET

** 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 — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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 — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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 — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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 — doors open for self-directed warm up/stretching @ 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

7:30 PM to 8:30 PM – Forest performance by PREHISTORIC BODY THEATER from INDONESIA @ Artlab Thuja

8:30 PM — POTLUCK DINNER CELEBRATION @ Artlab Thuja — BRING FOOD & SNACKS TO SHARE! BYOB!