BUTOH CABARET: a performance art show
Schedule
Sun Nov 02 2025 at 06:00 pm to 09:00 pm
UTC-08:00Location
Primaltones | Newport, OR
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Sophia Solano presents:BUTOH CABARET
at Primaltones
Sunday, November 2nd
doors 6pm, show 7pm
tickets: $22 in advance, $28 at the door
cash tips are split equally among performers
Join us for another evening of performance art and ritual theater honoring Día de los Muertos. A series of acts occurring between the thinning veil will celebrate and venerate the cycles of life and death as transformative processes.
Attendees are encouraged to bring a small offering, a token of significance, a photo, flower, or other symbolic item for a participatory moment. You may take it back home with you if you choose!
About Butoh:
Butoh is an avant-garde form of dance originally developed in the 1950s and 60s by Japanese artists Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. In the words of American butoh icon Joan Laage, butoh is a “philosophy of the body,” a process of questioning and exploring the boundaries of the human experience. Butoh can simultaneously deconstruct and reveal meaning that is hidden or unknown. Its unconventional movements and provocative aesthetics invite those who are witnessing to reimagine existence and their own expectations of art, society, and the body.
About Butoh Cabaret:
Around the same time and place as the inception of butoh, dancers began experimenting within the cabaret and nightlife scenes of the Tokyo underground. Butoh Cabaret allows a more festive and flirty fusion approach to the typically dark and heavy themes of butoh. Butoh and Butoh Cabaret are informed by surrealist imagery and implement structured choreography as well as improvisation.
About the Presenter:
Sophia Solano (1997) is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and community organizer living and dancing between the big trees and salty waters of the Cascadia bioregion. She has studied music since the age of six and dance since the age of seventeen; her earliest influences stem from a wide range of global art forms. Her multicultural heritage has informed a multidisciplinary art practice and her work regularly explores the intersections of tradition and revolution, simplicity and power, the new and the ancient.
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Where is it happening?
Primaltones, 2925 S.E. Ferry Slip rd. #122,Newport, Oregon, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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