NEW YORK BUTOH INSTITUTE FESTIVAL 2024

Butoh Masterclass with Eugenia Vargas Sunday, October 13, 3-6pm

Take a masterclass with our featured Butoh Festival guest Eugenia Vargas from Mexico!

Date: Sunday, October 13, 6-9pm

Location: 115 Wooster Street 2F in Soho

Eugenia Vargas  

Dancer, choreographer, teacher, manager, and researcher. Her education integrates choreography, dance research, and literary creation. Her artistic interest is based on the question about the body, butoh, and the composition of the poetic image on stage. In her workshops, Vargas focuses on the investigation of the electrical impulse as a spark of sensation to delve into the training of nervous sensitivity and transformation body, based on energy and its multiple qualities

She is the founder and director of Laboratorio Escénico Danza Teatro Ritual (LEDTR), a space that has served not only as an incubator for dance and interdisciplinary projects but also as an artistic residence and a formative space for butoh dance, from which several generations of artists have emerged or have been influenced.

She is co-founder and director of Cuerpos en Revuelta - Butoh International Festival -, of the Seminar “Thinking from the body with and against butoh”, among several other initiatives focused on the practice and study of butoh. She is a relevant figure in the promotion of butoh in Mexico.

Vargas has trained with some of the most recognized butoh dance teachers in Mexico, Japan, and Germany, performing choreographic productions of Natsu Nakajima, Tadashi Endo, and Yukio Waguri. 

She has directed choreographic projects at a national and international level and has participated in festivals and stages in various countries, being recognized for her work in specialized books on butoh. She has recently been selected as one of the resident artists at B.I.G (Butoh International Gathering) which will be held in Germany next August.

She has received support from the National System of Art Creators in Mexico.

Photo by Pepe Castillo Borja.

This class is nonrefundable