2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival

AUGUST 16—24, 2025 

PORT TOWNSEND, Washington 

* SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

JOAN LAAGE (Seattle) and ROSEMARY CANDELARIO (Austin, TX) workshops

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

12:15 PM — OPENING CIRCLE

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 — studio doors open

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)

• 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 — studio doors open

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)

• 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

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM – workshops

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

1:30 PM to 4:00 PM — OPTIONAL “ButohDrawing” mini-workshop with Katya Popova from Boston, Massachusetts: “ButohDrawing is a workshop that explores the intersection of Butoh practice and drawing. Through a series of movement and drawing exercises, participants will express concepts such as momentum, gravity, gesture, and imagery, using their bodies and drawing mediums like ink, charcoal, paper, and bed sheets.”

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

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM — BUTOH CABARET with special guest MELVIN COPPALLE from FRANCE

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

* THURSDAY, August 21

SEISAKU + YURI (Japan) and Melvin Coppalle (France) workshops

9:30 AM — studio doors open

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)

• 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 Melvin Coppalle workshops + Mainstage Performances

9:30 AM — studio doors open

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 

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime

FRIDAY EVENING, August 22 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 1

• Rosemary Candelario  (Austin, TX)

• Joan Laage  (Seattle, WA)

– INTERMISSION – 

• Eugenia Vargas  (México) 

• Espartaco Martinez  (México)

* SATURDAY, August 23

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

9:30 AM — studio doors open

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

8:00 PM to 10:00 PM – showtime

SATURDAY EVENING, August 23 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 2

• Yuri Nagaoka  (Japan)

• Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Co.

– INTERMISSION – 

• Seisaku (Japan)

• Yumi Umiumare  (Australia)

SUNDAY, August 24

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

+ STUDENT WORKSHOP PERFORMANCE

9:30 AM — studio doors open

10:00 AM to 2:30 PM – workshops

2:30 PM to 4:00 PM – Lunch Break: BRING LUNCH TO CHETZEMOKA PARK

4:00 PM to 6:00 PM – group rehearsal at Chetzemoka Park performance site

7:00 PM to 8:00 PM – outdoor student performance with Live music @ CHETZEMOKA PARK

** AFTER PARTY CELEBRATION @ SIRENS Waterfront Restaurant & Gastropub (823 Water Street)