Join us for the 15th Asheville Butoh Festival! We are excited that Atsushi Takenouchi of Jinen Butoh and composer Hiroko Komiya will be our 2025 guests!
This year we are partnering with the University of North Carolina Asheville's Theater Department for two days of workshops and performances.
Each event of the festival is ticketed separately!
The full UNCA festival schedule is as follows:
Saturday, November 1st: Workshop: 11am – 4pm. Performance by Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya, 7:30pm
Sunday, November 2nd: Workshop: 11am – 4pm. Performance by the workshop students, 7:30pm
We hope to see you at Saturday's workshop with Atsushi Takenouchi. All levels are welcome!
If you are interested in performing Sunday evening, you must attend BOTH Saturday and Sunday workshops. Performing is not required, and you may take one or both workshops if you do not wish to perform.
The workshops will be held at the Sherrill Center Dance Studio, space 351. Parking information will be available closer to the event.
"Balance. Walking by transferring your weight. Live walking, Death walking.
The way of body operating to make the movement come out from inside.
Capturing a conscious movement and an unconscious movement as a dance.
Dance a fragmental dream. Gravitation and floating.
The process of the metamorphosis.
A collaboration and an improvisation by body and sound.
Find out your own expression coming from your emotion with focusing on really personal things which is inside of you." ~ Atsushi Takenouchi
(Please note there is also a performance in collaboration with Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center on Thursday evening, October 30th. See their website for details and tickets for that specific event.)
