Water in the Desert

Nikawa Productions & PSU Center for Japanese Studies present:

A 50-year retrospective of Butoh dance theatre, from the traditional and modern art forms that influenced it as an emerging underground “dance experience” in post-WWII Japan, to its development as a vital global performance art

Featuring performances by

Japanese National Treasure Koichi Tamano, Hiroko Tamano, and Mexican Master Artist Diego Piñón

ORIGINS:

Friday, June 26th  7:30-10pm

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano and Harupin-Ha Butoh Theatre, Portland Taiko’s Japanese Folk Dance, PSU’s Kyogen Theatre, Buyo , Cydney Wilkes, Sheri Brown & Douglas Ridings, Wobbly

EVOLUTIONS:

Saturday, June 27th  7:30-10pm

Diego Piñón Butoh-Ritual Mexicano, Linda K. Johnson, Mizu Desierto Butoh Theatre, TeeTh, Syzygy Butoh, Christina Braun SF Butoh Lab

@ The Dolores Winningstad Theatre
Portland Center for the Performing Arts
1111 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97205

WORKSHOPS AND MASTER CLASSES with festival artists May thru July

e-mail: info@theheadwaters.net;  Call: 503 289-3499

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