Upcoming Events

Facilitating "Interbeing": Butoh/Contact Improvisation Workshops

Wednesday, May 14 from 6:30-9 pm

Tuesday, June 10 from 1-4 pm

at Center for Performance Research

361 Manhattan Ave

Brooklyn, NY 11211

This series of open sessions, entitled "Interbeing", facilitated by Eilish Henderson will act as a continuing inquiry into the ways in which we can approach contact improvisation from a butoh lens. The essence of our being is interbeing- with eternal and necessary threads connecting us to the land, rivers, and one another. Grounded in the notions of the body as water vessels, these sessions will act as a supportive movement practice that engages a deep sense of listening-prioritizing care, slowness, and awareness of gravity in moments of contact. Each session will be distinct and informed by those present.

The flow will look something like this: arrival/grounding, several guided exercises with images/textures, open jam/improvisation, and a closing. No prior experience with butoh or contact improvisation is necessary.

Donation based to cover the space! Suggested: $5-15.

Teaching Open Butoh Class: COALESCENCE

for New York Butoh Institute/Vangeline Theater

Sunday, June 8 from 5-7 pm

115 Wooster Street

New York, NY 10012

Drawing upon personal performance practice and eco-somatics, these classes will explore butoh rooted in ephemerality, memory and collective consciousness. Through visuals of transience and disappearance the body will expand upon itself guided by reaching towards past selves, situated through the sensorial breath individually and collectively. As we travel through time, we evade it. Come join and explore this methodology with any level of experience.

Performing in The Leg.

by notAmuse Theater

May 24, 2025: Preview

May 27-31, 2025

June 3-7, 2025

Mitu580

580 Sackett Street

Brooklyn, NY 11217