butoh education
I have been learning from butoh guides since Fall of 2013 when I started my butoh training at Himalaya Subbody Butoh where a major chunk of butoh exposure has been from Rhizom Lee (roughly 800 or 900 hours). On top of that, I have attended approximately 687 hours of butoh, Noguchi taiso, and related (Body Weather, Olivier de Sagazan) workshops. I have trained under 43 butoh/butoh-related guides.
2023
Dec 6 – Jan 13 | INDIA | 12 hours | 6 week, three 3 hour classes from Zalina Gamat (India) @ Unearth Hostel in Auroville.
2022
Dec 09 – 11 | GREECE | 12 hours from Olivier de Sagazan (France) @ Duncan’s Dance Center in Athens
Dec 05 | GREECE | 2 hours from Vicky Cera (Greece) @ Quilombo Central Cultural in Athens
Nov 29 & Dec 06 | GREECE | 4 hours from Marianna Tsagaraki (Greece) @ Ananda Unity in Athens
Nov 25 – 27 | GREECE | 18 hours from Yuko Kaseki (Japan/Germany) @ Quilombo Central Cultural in Athens
Oct 03 – 28 | TURKEY | 36 hours with Rita Soma (Spain), 25 hours with Coco Villarreal (Mexico) at Flower of Death 3-guide Butoh intensive @ STOA in Sirince
Sep 19, 21 – 23, 26 | GEORGIA | 7 hours | Butoh series @ Theatre of Music & Drama & Lumos Yoga Studio from Rita Soma (Spain) in Tbilisi
Sep 08 – 13 | ITALY | 16 1/2 hours | Dance of Spores Butoh Residency and Workshop @ Spazio ‘500 in Vigolo Vattaro with Santeri Vikstrom (Finland), Coco Villarreal (Mexico), Alessia Mallardo (Italy), Alexandra Jane Wynne (Australia), Marta Sponzille (Italy), Julie Becton Gillum (USA), Anna Kushnerova (UK), and Yi Chen (China) | Event Link
Jul 04 – 15 | SPAIN | 24 hours | 2-weeks Beyond Limits Butoh Intensive w/ Coco Villareal in El Calabacino.
June 24 – 27 | GREECE | 8 hours from Marianna Tsagaraki (Greece) @ Kallichoro
Jan 17 – Feb 25 | TURKEY | 36 hours with Alessia Mollardo, 36 hours with Santeri Vikstrom, and 36 hours with Coco Villarreal @ Tiyatro Medresesi in Sirince
2021
Oct 22 & Nov 03 | MEXICO | 4 hours | Workshops from Rita Soma @ La Tozi in San Cristobal
Oct 14 & 28 | MEXICO | 3 hours | Workshop from Rita Soma @ Wapani Cultural Space in San Cristobal
Apr 19 – May 7th | TURKEY | 20+ hours of Noguchi Taiso from Julie Becton Gillum (USA) & 20+ hours of improvisational dance/Ecosystems of Emotions by Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) @ Tiyatro Medresesi in Sirince
Mar 1 – 26th | TURKEY | 30+ hours of Noguchi Taiso from Julie Becton Gillum (USA) & 30+ hours of improvisational dance/Ecosystems of Emotions by Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) @ Tiyatro Medresesi in Sirince
Jan 11 – Feb 5th | TURKEY | 30+ hours of Noguchi Taiso from Julie Becton Gillum (USA) & 30+ hours of improvisational dance/Ecosystems of Emotions by Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) @ Tiyatro Medresesi in Sirince
2020
Oct 03 – Dec 18th | UKRAINE | 50+ hours of Noguchi Taiso from Julie Becton Gillum (USA) & 50+ hours of improvisational dance/Ecosystems of Emotions by Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) @ Soma Studio in Lviv
Aug 05 – 31st | TURKEY | 20+ hours of Noguchi Taiso from Julie Becton Gillum (USA) & 20+ hours of improvisational dance/Ecosystems of Emotions by Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) @ Yoga Ashram in Istanbul
Jun 6, 13 | USA | 2 hours 1/2 with Yuko Kaseki (Germany/Japan) zoom classes
Jun 5 & 6 | USA | 3 hours of Nagaoka Seisaku (Japan) zoom classes
May 22 – 24, 27 – 29 | USA | 9 hours of Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Germany) zoom classes
2019
Sept 5 – 8 | GERMANY | 8 hours of Noguchi Taiso with Julie Becton Gillum (USA) @ ResoDance Studio in Leipzig
Aug 19 – Sept 1 | SERBIA | 6 hour workshop with Ken Mai (Finland/Japan), 8 hours with Tebby Ramasike (South Africa/Luxenburg), 2 hours with Cilla Vee (USA), 8 hours with Julie Becton Gillum (USA), 2 hours with Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey), and 2 hours with Rita Soma (Spain) @ Sesalac Butoh Retreat in Sesalac
Jul 18 – 22 | SPAIN | 5 days (15 hours) of Noguchi Taiso with Julie Becton Gillum (USA) @ Escuela International Del Gesto in Madrid
Jul 13 – 15 | FINLAND | 3 days (7.5 hours) of Noguchi Taiso with Julie Becton Gillum (USA) @ Suomenlinna Island in Helsinki
Jul 04 – 06 | ITALY | 3 days (15 hours) with Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Germany) @ Moving Bodies Festival in Torino
Jul 01 & 02 | ITALY | 2 days (8 hours) with Ken Mai (Finland/Japan) @ Moving Bodies Festival in Torino
Jun 06 | GERMANY | 2 hour class from Anna Nela (Germany) @ ResoDance Studio in Leipzig
Apr 29 – May 02 | INDIA | 4 day class (20 hours) from Gio (South Korea) @ Himalaya Subbody Butoh in Dharamsala
Mar 04 – 07 | INDIA | 4 day workshop (10 hours) from Mushimaru Fujieda (Japan) @ Himalaya Subbody Butoh in Dharamsala
2018
Sept 28 & 29 | INDIA | 2 days (1 and 3 hour) Body Weather workshops with Nataliya Andru (Spain/Ukraine) @ Subbody Butoh School in Dharamsala
Jun 21 – 24 | GERMANY | 4 days (20 hours) intensive with Anna Barth (Germany) in Berlin
April 02 & 03 | USA | 2 days (4 hours) with Julie Becton Gillum (USA) in Asheville, North Carolina
2017
Feb | MEXICO | 8 days (24 hours) with Cinthia Patiño (Mexico) throughout a month in Mexico City
Feb | MEXICO | 12 to 16 hours of Body Weather courses by Theresa Carlos (Mexico) and Martha Sponzilli (Italy)
Feb 04 & 05 | MEXICO | 2 day (18 hour) intensive with Diego Piñón in Tlalpujahua
2016
Nov 29 – Dec 01 | MEXICO | 3 day (15 hours) intensive with Ken Mai in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico
Nov 23 – Nov 27 | MEXICO | 5 day intensive (25 hours) with Ken Mai in Mexico City
Sept 10 – 13 | USA | 4 day intensive (15 hours) with Tadashi Endo in Chicago
Apr 23 & 24 | USA | 4 and 6 hour intensive with Yumiko Yoshioka in Chicago
Apr 02 | USA | 2 hour workshop with Michael Sakamoto in Chicago
Jan 16 | USA | 3 hour workshop with Vangeline in Chicago
2015 – 2016 | USA | Very many Sundays were attended at Sara Zalak‘s Butoh Body in Chicago, one workshop of which had a special guest Ginger Krebs.
2015
Aug 24 – Sept 02 | GREECE | 10 day (50 hours) Motimaru butoh intensive with Motoya Kondo and Tiziana Longo in Santorini Island
Aug 17 – 21 | FINLAND | 5 day (25 hour) intensive with Ken Mai in Helsinki, Finland
Aug 03 – 16 | GERMANY | Ex…it Butoh Festival, Germany. 2 weeks. 1 class with each butoh instructor: Yukio Waguri, Rhizome Lee, Yumi Umiumare, Atsushi Takenouchi, Natsu Nakajima, Michiyasu Furutani, Valentin Tszi, and Matilde Javier Ciria, and a 1-week choreography session with Yukio Waguri
List of Butoh or Related Guides Trained Under (and their nationality)
Alessia Mollardo (Italy) – 38 hours
Alexandra Jane Wynne (Australia) – 2 ½ hours
Anna Barth (Germany) – 20 hours
Anna Kushnerova (UK/Russia) – 2 ½ hours
Anna Nela (Germany) – 2 hours
Atsushi Takenouchi (Japan) – 2 hours
CillaVee (USA) – 2 hours
Cinthia Patiño (Mexico) – 24 hours
Coco Villarreal (Mexico) – 87 hours
Diego Piñón (Mexico) – 18 hours
Ginger Krebs (USA) – 2 hours
Gio (South Korea) – 20 hours
Julie Becton Gillum (butoh & Noguchi taiso) (USA) – 194 hours
Ken Mai (Japan) – 69 hours
Marianna Tsagaraki (Greece) – 12 hours
Marta Sponzilli (Body Weather) (Italy) – 8 hours
Matilde Javier (Spain) – 2 hours
Michael Sakamoto (USA) – 2 hours
Michiyasu Furutani (Japan) – 2 hours
Motoya Kondo (Japan) – 50 hours
Mushimaru Fujieda (Japan) – 10 hours
Nagaoka Seisaku (Japan) – 2 hours zoom
Nataliya Andru (Body Weather) (Spain/Ukraine) – 4 hours
Natsu Nakajima (RIP) (Japan) – 2 hours
Olivier de Sagazan (France) – 12 hours
Özerk Sonat Pamir (Turkey) – 142 hours
Rhizome Lee (Japan) – estimated to be around 800 or 900 hours
Rita Soma (Spain) – 52 hours
Santeri Vikstrom (Finland) – 38 hours
Sara Zalak (USA) – 40 hours (rough estimate)
Tadashi Endo (Japan/Berlin) – 15 hours
Tebby Ramasike (South Africa/Luxenburg) – 8 hours
Theresa Carlos (Body Weather) (Mexico) – 8 hours
Tiziana Longo (Italy) – 50 hours
Valentin Tszin (Russia) – 2 hours
Vangeline (USA) – 3 hours
Vicky Cera (Greece) – 2 hours
Yi Chen (China) – 2 ½ hours
Yukio Waguri (RIP) (Japan) – 14 hours
Yuko Kaseki (Japan/Germany) – 18 hours + 2 ½ hours zoom
Yumi Umiumare (Japan) – 2 hours
Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Berlin) – 25 hours + 9 hours zoom
Zalina Gamat (India) – 12 hours