Seattle International Butoh Festival November 14-23, 2025

DAIPANbutoh Collective is pleased to announce its Seattle International Butoh Festival 2025, which will take place November 14 through November 23 at YAW Theater in Georgetown. This fall’s festival with performances and workshops will take place over two weekends featuring María Belén Espinosa Peña/Requiem Compania Danza-Teatro & Natalia Cuéllar/Ruta de la Memoria (Chile) in weekend one and Atsushi Takenouchi JINEN Butoh with musician Hiroko Komiya (Italy/Japan) in week two. DAIPAN members Helen Thorsen, Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh, Sheri Brown and Kaoru Okumura will also perform in week one; Dhyana Garcia and Alycia Scott Zollinger plus local guest Lin Lucas will perform in week two.

Past audiences and workshop participants may remember Natalia and Belén with Ruta de la Memoria group’s beautiful and haunting piece during DAIPAN’s festival at Shoreline Community College and Atsushi and Hiroko’s spirited performance at our festival held at eXit/NOD Theater on Capitol Hill. DAIPAN welcomes them back with new works. A couple of extra features for week two: Friday’s performance of an audio-visual piece directed by Hiroko with film artist Chris. H. Lynn, danced by Atsushi, Vanessa Skantze and Joan Laage/Kogut Butoh; Atsushi’s workshop participants have the opportunity to perform on the final Sunday of the festival.