MpowerDance Butoh Classes 2026, Rewilding Our Creative Body for Shapeshift

MpowerDance Project presents 2026 series of weekly Butoh dance classes May-June. Rewilding your creative body. Registration required
About this Event

This spring 2026, MpowerDance Project presents fun and affordable Butoh classes, each Wednesday from 12-1pm in San Francisco, starting May 6 through to June 24. Instructor Mary Power will lead us in rewilding our creative body as we transform into an art making exploration in Butoh dance. Expect conditioning drills for shapes, balances, rolls, walks, crawls, spins; and directed Butoh improvisations and choreography for Shapeshift 2026.

Our Butoh classes support centered awareness of both the internal and external spatial environments of our own self in space time and in relation with other earthlings. Dancing with others improves our spontaneity and timing. Even though as individuals, independent of anyone else's experience, we create dance together and our very presence contributes to group connection. This spring put your mind-body skills into dynamic artful movement. Please join in.

Eventbrite registration is required.

Dress in comfortable clothes, bring socks, bring long sleeved shirt. Classes will be filmed.

Please arrive 5 minutes early, doors close at 12pm.

Mary Power, dancer, choreographer, author and artistic director of MPOWERDANCE PROJECT, is a member of the San Francisco non-profit dance community through Independent Arts and Media. Mary holds a Masters in Exercise Science and Kinesiology with an extensive teaching background in Sports and Dancemedicine. Her choreography is sourced from Butoh, Contemporary Dance (Modern, Ballet), African, Flamenco and other mind-body systems: Pilates, Gyrotonic, Yoga, Martial Arts and body leverage for partnering/TRX. MpowerDance Project offers interdisciplinary workshops, dance training classes, performance works, process and performance opportunities, collaborations with dancers, artists, writers and film makers, musicians, and connects community experience through dance film media. Through MpowerDance Project, since 2012, Mary Power develops her Global Dance Project (GDP) with annual contributions of free global imaginal content for choreography, dance art and performance via the world wide web. She continues to produce dance art performance events, beginning from 2010. (mpowerdance.net)