In-Person Butoh class with Yazmin Gonzalez

Sunday, March 16, 2025

6-8pm

Location:

115 Wooster Street

2md Floor Dance studio

in Soho

$25

Yazmin Gonzalez began her dance education at 18, studying Egyptian Classical Belly Dance under the guidance of Maria Jammal. Upon moving to N.Y., she encountered East Coast Tribal Belly dance and became enamored with the fusion path under the tutelage of Sera Solstice and Zuleika Milan. Seeking to provoke emotional exploration through movement, she came to the New York Butoh Institute, and felt immediately engaged by the profound power of focus and deliberation that Butoh offers. She currently studies under the primary guidance of Vangeline and has been privileged to train with several Butoh masters, such as Atsushi Takenouchi, Tetsoro Fukuhara, Yumiko Yoshioka, and Joan Laage. Throughout a decade of inner diving, she has sought to transfer the arising emotions in her movement through a melding of Middle-Eastern, Latin-Fusion, and Butoh dance. Her first solo ‘Desire’ was showcased in 2019 for the N.Y. Butoh Institute festival. Yazmin has also showcased ‘Venus Invites’ for the Ritual Cabaret Festival in 2023 as well as a duet with Andres Sepulveda entitled 'Posturas' -- featured at the 2023 Queer Butoh Festival. Her latest and most cherished presentation 'Desire' made its second debut at the 2nd Excavate: Works in Progress series. Yazmin's dance professes vulnerability, investigates seduction, and pleads for the integration of seeming opposites.

Photo by Ema Wagner.

Cancellations for all classes must be made 12 hours before the class start time. Students that do not attend the class will not receive any form of credit or exchange.

This program is supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.