Boston Butoh Festival

03/22/2025

The website for the 2025 Boston Butoh and Performance Art Festival is now LIVE:
https://www.bostonbutohfestival.com/

03/22/2025

Butoh Workshop with Joan Laage / Kogut Butoh on Friday April 25th and Saturday April 26th! more info about the workshop: https://www.bostonbutohfestival.com/workshops

05/20/2020

Yumiko Yoshioka is teaching her body resonance workshop virtually through Earthdance, east coast time, from June 5th-7th. Click the link to register!

03/23/2020

It is with a heavy heart that we must cancel the Boston Butoh Festival for April 2020. We are currently working on rescheduling the festival (stay tuned). Thank you to all of our artists, their dedication, their magnanimity, and the beauty of their art and teaching of butoh. All of this is sorely needed now as we confront this crisis together.❤️❤️❤️

03/07/2020

Tickets are now available for all 4 shows of the Boston Butoh Festival. You can purchase them at the Boston Theater Scene link below. A limited number of Festival Passes (all 4 shows and the symposium for $85) are available. Email me: [email protected] if you would like to purchase one of these!

Mobius and Boston Center for the Arts are proud to announce the second annual production of the Boston Butoh Festival at the Boston Center for the Arts’ Plaza Theater. Headlined by Yumiko Yoshioka (Berlin, DE), Mari Osanai (Aomori, JP) and Rosemary Candelario (USA), the festival features 4 incredi...

02/29/2020

Headlining our festival: Yumiko Yoshioka is a Japanese Butoh dancer and choreographer from Tokyo. Since 1988 she has been based in Germany. Yumiko is a former member of Ariadone, the first female Butoh company, which was founded by Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda in 1974. In 1978, she performed with Ko and Carolotta in Paris, LE DERNIER EDEN – PORTE DE L’AU-DELA, the very first Butoh performance to be presented in a public theatre outside Japan. In 1988 she met Minako Seki and delta RA’i in Berlin, with whom she founded tatoeba THÉÂTRE DANCE GROTESQUE. This experience, along with work with the Butoh dancer Kim-Itoh, encouraged Yumiko to start to unfold her own personal style of dancing and choreography.

Yumiko Yoshioka is a dancer, teacher and choreographer based in Berlin. Yumiko teaches her Butoh and Organic Movement training internationally.

02/13/2020

"Soil" by Michael Sakamoto, a BBF 2020 Headlining Artist. Read an interview with Michael in the post below this one.

"Soil" An intercultural dance theater performance Conceived, directed, co-written, and produced by Michael Sakamoto Choreographed, performed, and co-written…

02/13/2020

Creative Ground Interview with one of our BBF 2020 Headlining Artists, Michael Sakamoto

01/12/2020

The Boston Butoh Festival 2020 Website is LIVE! We are proud to be hosted by the Boston Center for the Arts and co-produced by Mobius this year. Please check out our schedule of events, information about our outstanding artists, and details about our workshops. Please do not hesitatate to reach out to me directly with questions!!