2026 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

** ALL workshops & performances for 2026 Festival take place in DOWNTOWN Port Townsend on the historic Water Street waterfront **

* SATURDAY, July 25

POPE MARINE BUILDING & COTTON BUILDING WORKSHOPS

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – OPENING WEEKEND PERFORMANCES

* SUNDAY, July 26

POPE MARINE BUILDING & COTTON BUILDING WORKSHOPS

* MONDAY, July 27

POPE MARINE BUILDING & COTTON BUILDING WORKSHOPS

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ COTTON BUILDING

  • Lecture + Q&A with Dr. TANYA CALAMONERI


* TUESDAY, July 28

POPE MARINE BUILDING & COTTON BUILDING WORKSHOPS

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ COTTON BUILDING

  • Lecture + Q&A with


* WEDNESDAY, July 29 

DAY OF REST + BUTOH CABARET @ Night

Butoh CABARET LOCATION: The CHIMACUM GRANGE

8:00 PM to 10:30 PM — BUTOH CABARET


* THURSDAY, July 30

BRIGID’S LOFT & POPE MARINE BUILDING workshops

8:30 PM to 10:00 PM – BUTOH SALON (evening Lecture series) @ Brigid’s Loft

  • Lecture and Q&A with Dr. Megan V. Nicely


* FRIDAY, July 31 

BRIGID’S LOFT & POPE MARINE BUILDING workshops

8:00 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists @ PT American Legion

8:15PM – showtime

FRIDAY EVENING, July 31 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 1 @ PT American Legion

(the American Legion is located in downtown Port Townsend @ 209 Monroe Street

  • Emiko Agatsuma (Tokyo, Japan)

  • Iván Espinosa and Company

– INTERMISSION – 

  • Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Germany)

* SATURDAY, August 1

BRIGID’S LOFT & POPE MARINE BUILDING workshops

8:00 PM – Doors open for MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE featuring our 2025 Teaching Artists @ PT American Legion Hall

8:15 PM – showtime

SATURDAY EVENING, August 1 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 2 @ American Legion Hall

(the American Legion is located in downtown Port Townsend @ 209 Monroe Street

  • MOE YAMAMOTO & KEI SHIRASAKA of Kanazawa Butoh-Kan (Kanazawa, Japan)

  • Haruko Crow Nishimura of Degenerate Art Ensemble (Seattle)

– INTERMISSION – 

  • AKIRA KASAI (Tokyo, Japan)

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

SUNDAY, August 2

POPE MARINE BUILDING and COTTON BUILDING workshops

SUNDAY EVENING, August 1 – MAINSTAGE PERFORMANCE # 3 @ American Legion Hall

(the American Legion is located in downtown Port Townsend @ 209 Monroe Street

  • KOTA YAMAZAKI AND MINA NISHIMURA (Tokyo, Japan/NYC)

– INTERMISSION – 

  • MITSUTAKE KASAI (Tokyo, Japan)

** AFTER PARTY — BUTOH DISCO with The Sparkle Sisters!!!

^^ The beautiful City of Port Townsend waterfront where our 2025 festival takes place. Port Townsend is a coastal city on the northeastern tip of the Olympic Peninsula in the Pacific Northwest. It’s the original location where we founded our festival.

^^ A photo of a 2021 Butoh workshop student performance directed by JOAN LAAGE at North Beach Park in Port Townsend, a scenic oceanfront park that we will be performing at once again for our 2025 Salish Sea Butoh Festival.