2026 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

*** ALL WORKSHOPS ARE SOLD OUT ** — All of our workshops are now at max capacity and 100% SOLD OUT. If you still want to join, please purchase tickets to the MainStage performances at: https://givebutter.com/salishseabutoh2026

* SATURDAY JULY 25

6:00 PM – Opening Circle @ ArtLab Thuja

7:00 PM – POTLUCK dinner celebration (bring a dish to share) @ ArtLab Thuja

* SUNDAY, JULY 26

● KOTA YAMAZAKI & MINA NISHIMURA workshop – Location: Cotton Building

● Film screening from Kanazawa Butoh-Kan Archive – Location: Pope Marine Building

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Group A film screening, Group B workshop

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break (groups switch)

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Group A workshop, Group B film screening

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8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH DANCE JAM with Live music by Ben Martens – Location: COTTON BUILDING

* MONDAY, JULY 27

● MOE YAMAMOTO & KEI SHIRASAKA Kanazawa Butoh-Kan workshop – Location: Pope Marine Building

● KOTA YAMAZAKI & MINA NISHIMURA workshop – Location: Cotton Building

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – Workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:30 PM – Workshops

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8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON: Evening Lecture series @ Cotton Building

— Lecture by Dr. BRUCE BAIRD, Professor of Japanese Language & Japanese Literature at the University of Massachusetts

* TUESDAY, JULY 28

● MOE YAMAMOTO & KEI SHIRASAKA Kanazawa Butoh-Kan workshop – Location: Pope Marine Building

● KOTA YAMAZAKI & MINA NISHIMURA workshop – Location: Cotton Building

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – Workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:30 PM – Workshops

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8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON: Evening Lecture series @ Cotton Building

— Lecture by Dr. TANYA CALAMONERI on “Tuning to our Environment: Butoh Avatar in Virtual Reality”

* WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 – DAY OF REST + ButohCABARET

6:00 PM to 7:15 PM — LECTURE by Dr. Bruce Baird on “Tracing the Histories of Cabaret in Butoh”

7:30 PM — Outdoor beach performance by EVAN RAY SUZUKI @ Pope Marine Park BEACHFRONT

8:00 PM — ButohCABARET show @ The Cotton Building

* THURSDAY, JULY 30

● AKIRA KASAI Tenshi-Kan Butoh workshop – Location: Port Townsend Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Street

● JOAN LAAGE Nature Butoh workshop + outdoor dance – Location: CHETZEMOKA PARK, 1000 Jackson Street

10:00 AM to 1:30 PM – Workshops

1:30 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:30 PM – Workshops

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8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON: Evening Lecture series @ Port Townsend QUIMPER GRANGE

— Lecture by Dr. MEGAN V. NICELY on “Language Creates the Body Anew: Kasai Akira’s Post-Butoh”

* FRIDAY, JULY 31

● AKIRA KASAI Tenshi-Kan Butoh workshop – Location: Port Townsend Quimper Grange, 1219 Corona Street

● MOE YAMAMOTO & KEI SHIRASAKA Kanazawa Butoh-Kan workshop – Location: Pope Marine Building

10:00 AM to 1:00 PM – Workshops

1:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Workshops

● 8:00 PM – MainStage performances (doors open @ 8:00, show begins @ 8:15 PM sharp)

** FRIDAY, JULY 31 MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES

@ American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe St, Port Townsend

1. EMIKO AGATSUMA (Tokyo, Japan)

2. IVÁN ESPINOSA & Company with Live music by Katinka Kleijn (Chicago+Los Angeles+Seattle)

— Intermission 15 min —

3. YUMIKO YOSHIOKA (Berlin, Germany)

* SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st

● YUMIKO YOSHIOKA NATURE BUTOH workshop + outdoor dance – Location: North Beach County Park, 5787 Kuhn Street

● EMIKO AGATSUMA AGAXART Butoh workshop – Location: Pope Marine Building

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

● 8:00 PM – MainStage performances (doors open @ 8:00, show begins @ 8:15 PM sharp)

** SATURDAY, AUGUST 1st MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES

@ American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe Street, Port Townsend

1. MOE YAMAMOTO AND KEI SHIRASAKA (Kanazawa, Japan)

— Intermission 15 min —

2. AKIRA KASAI (Tokyo, Japan)

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AFTER PARTY celebration @ The In Between art-deco bar, 823 Water Street

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2

● YUMIKO YOSHIOKA Body Resonance & Butoh workshop – Location: Cotton Building

● EMIKO AGATSUMA AGAXART Butoh workshop – Location: Pope Marine Building

11:00 AM to 2:00 PM – Workshops

2:00 PM to 3:00 PM – Lunch Break

3:00 PM to 6:00 PM – Workshops

● 8:00 PM – MainStage performances (doors open @ 8:00, show begins @ 8:15 PM sharp)

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCES

@ American Legion Hall, 209 Monroe Street, Port Townsend

1. JOAN LAAGE/KOGUT BUTOH

2. MITSUTAKE KASAI

— Intermission 15 min —

3. KOTA YAMAZAKI AND MINA NISHIMURA

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** Festival CLOSING CIRCLE — followed by AFTER-PARTY celebration at THE UPTOWN PUB, 1016 Lawrence Street