Butoh Training with Corin

Workshop Description

Immersive and intensive training in the fundamentals of butoh (舞踏).

While this workshop is suitable for those new to butoh, it is designed for performing artists with an ongoing professional or pre-professional practice.

Corin Wiggins, who has just moved to LA, is seeking to introduce this work to like-minded performers and begin building an ensemble to devise and choreograph with in the near future.

Butoh (舞踏) Bio

Among other theatrical disciplines, Corin Wiggins (they/he/she) is a professional butoh dancer and choreographer. They are a principal dancer in Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, an internationally touring butoh performance ensemble. They work closely with both Iván and his butoh mentor Joan Laage, herself a student of Yoko Ashikawa. Corin has trained butoh with many of the surviving company members of butoh’s chief architects Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, including Saga Kobayashi, Hiroko Tamano, Ken Mai, and Dairakudakan Ensemble Member Yuko Kobayashi.

Corin holds a B.F.A. in Physical Theatre via a joint program between Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina and the Accademia’dell Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Both their devised ensemble work and solo work is rooted in butoh and they are credited as having performed the first professional butoh performance in South Carolina history, their home state. Corin will be performing butoh extensively in 2026, including a three city tour of Japan in the latter half of the year. They have recently taken up residence in Los Angeles.

Donations (PWYC)

This training oppourtuntiy is free. To help cover the cost of studio rental, donations are greatly apprciated. Please Venmo me (@Corin-Wiggins) or come with cash!

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