2025 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS @ Fort Worden State Park

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

* 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)

6:00 PM to 7:30 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)

6:00 PM — pre-show lecture by Dr. Bruce Baird on the History of Cabaret and Butoh in Japan

7:00 PM to 9:30 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

(USO Hall is located just west of the Taps Guardhouse bar, 300 Eisenhower Ave, Port Townsend, WA 98368)

• Rosemary Candelario  (Austin, TX)

• Eugenia Vargas  (México) 

– INTERMISSION – 

• Joan Laage/Kogut (Seattle, WA)

• 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

(USO Hall is located just west of the Taps Guardhouse bar, 300 Eisenhower Ave, Port Townsend, WA 98368)

• Yuri Nagaoka  (Japan)

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

– INTERMISSION – 

• Seisaku (Japan)

• Yumi Umiumare  (Australia)

** AFTER PARTY drinks and celebration @ SIRENS Waterfront GastroPub (823 Water Street)

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 @ Artlab Thuja

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