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Stage WhisperWhisper in the Wings Episode 1239On the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we welcomed back the performer Vangleine and the welcomed in the creator/director Santiago Cumplido, to talk about their new incredible show Vangeline in Egregor: The Sensory Ritual of the Future. This was a fascinating new work to learn all about. So be sure that you tune in and turn out today!Santiago Cumplido PresentsVangeline in Egregor: The Sensory Ritual of the FutureSeptember 25th- October 19th@ New City Center Capilla Gotica, Instituto Cultural Hellenico (Mexico City)
2025-10-0634 min
Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: Behind the CurtainButoh: Behind the Curtain — Episode 14Recorded on September 5, 2025, against the quiet magic of late-summer Berlin, this episode captures the culmination of a five-day Butoh workshop led by Vangeline at Schott Acting Studio.In this intimate episode, 28 participants — many stepping into Butoh for the very first time — share what they discovered in the space we created together. Their reflections return again and again to themes of pleasure, safety, intimacy, connection, dissolving trauma, and the discipline of technique as a vessel for transformation — the true heartbeat of the workshop.Thanks to the exquisite photography and meticulo...
2025-09-141h 00Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: the Search for DignityListen to the conversation between dancers and audience members after an informal Butoh performance that took place on July 5th, 2025, in Soho, New York, following a 5-day Butoh workshop in New York led by Vangeline. Spectators and dancers discuss their respective experiences of Butoh. www.vangeline.com
2025-07-0642 minButoh musing with VangelineThe Body as a VesselThe Body as a Vessel: Conversation with Butoh dancer Genevieve Jencson and students in Cleveland, Ohio after a 3-day Butoh workshop led by Vangeline.Recorded in Cleveland on April 27, 2025.https://www.instagram.com/genevieve_violet/
2025-04-2836 minButoh musing with VangelineConversation at Zen Mountain MonasteryIn this podcast interview recorded at Zen Mountain Monastery, Monastic Hokyu Aronson speaks with Vangeline about embodied movement and healing. Along the way,
they discuss some of the deep history of butoh and how trauma-informed guidance can help students settle their nervous systems, whether they are pursuing Zen, butoh, or life itself. Although Vangeline emphasizes
this approach in her teaching, and speaks widely on the benefits of butoh as a form of creative engagement, she is quick to add that butoh should not be considered a replacement for therapy, and nor should Zen
practice. That said, the movement workshops...
2024-12-1737 minButoh musing with VangelineDance as Service--A Butoh SanctuaryThis episode was recorded on December 15, 2024. in Zipolite, Mexico, as the conclusion of a 7-day Butoh immersive retreat at the Butoh Sanctuary where Vangeline guided 18 students from all over the world to create their own Butoh piece.
In this episode, you can listen to each participant's experience during our final circle. This episode is both in English and Spanish with some interpretation.
To learn more about Butoh Sanctuary, visit www.butohsanctuary.org
2024-12-171h 17Butoh musing with VangelineMelissa Lohman: We are human materialIn this episode, while in Rome, Vangeline had a conversation with dancer, performer, and visual artist Melissa Lohman, talking about the body, dance, Butoh, and the practice of Noguchi Taiso.
You can follow Melissa on Instagram @melissarlohman
https://www.melissalohman.com/
2024-11-181h 04Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: The Ego-less State-Conversation with Christine Albeck Borge and Oliver Marcus StarpovIn this episode recorded in Denmark, I had a conversation with actress Christine Albeck Borge and Ballet dancer and choreographer Oliver Marcus Starpov, following our week-long creative research project combining Butoh, theater, and dance, with also director Liv Helm. Here is our reflection on the interaction of Butoh, dance, and theater.
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2024-11-051h 20Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: the endless road--conversation with Eugenia Vargas, Natalia Cuellar and Alice BaldockIn this episode recorded during the New York Butoh Festival 2024, Butoh dancers and teachers Eugenia Vargas from Mexico, Natalia Cuellar from Chile, and Doctor Alice Baldock from Oxford University and I had a conversation about women and Butoh, Butoh in Latin America, and our relationship to Butoh as women.
Get to know these extraordinary women who play a very important role in advancing the art form in the world.
Read their biographies here: https://www.vangeline.com/calendar-of-upcoming-events/2024/10/14/panel-discussion-women-latin-america-and-butoh
2024-10-1658 minButoh musing with VangelineButoh in Singapore: Butoh is DanceIn this episode, you can listen to the Q&A after Vangeline's performance of the Slowest Wave in Singapore, organized by the butoh artist XUE and the Singapore Butoh Collective.
During the Q&A, Xue, the audience, and Vangeline talk about topics such as the difficulty in describing Butoh, Butoh and neuroscience, The Slowest Wave, and the present and future of Butoh in Singapore.
This episode was recorded on September 1st, 2024.
Check them out: https://sgbutoh.co/
A couple of corrections:
The first Butoh performance was...
2024-09-0356 minButoh musing with VangelineMachine Dazzle and Vangeline--Saying Yes to LifeIn this episode, Vangeline has a conversation with her collaborator Emmy-Award winner Machine Dazzle, discussing their new project "Venus Ex Machina", costumes for MAN WOMAN, life as an artist, and the importance of saying yes. For more information about this new project visit www.vangeline.com and Instagram
Instagram: @machinedazzle @vangelinebutoh
https://www.vangeline.com/news/2024/8/15/venus-ex-machina-machine-dazzle-and-vangeline
Machine Dazzle. Emmy award winner and beloved downtown bon vivant and all-around creative provocateur Machine Dazzle has been dazzling stages via costumes, sets, and performances since his arrival in New York in 1994. An...
2024-08-151h 05Butoh musing with VangelineMAN WOMAN: Akihito Ichihara and Vangeline at Monira ResidencyThis episode focuses on the making of the duet Man Woman by butoh dancers Akihito Ichihara and Vangeline during their choreography residency at the Monira Foundation in New Jersey in July 2024.
In the first part of this episode, Akihito Ichihara and Vangeline have a conversation about MAN WOMAN. The second half takes you behind the scenes of their creative process as they discuss the piece, section by section, for the sound artist composing the soundscape.
About my guest and collaborator: Akihito Ichihara is a renowned Butoh dancer (Sankai Juku, ELF).
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2024-07-281h 02Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: The art of Receiving--Conversation with actresses Marie Bach Hansen and Christine Albeck BørgeIn this episode recorded on July 8, 2024, Vangeline and Danish actress Marie Bach Hansen and Christine Albeck Børge discuss the many possibilities of Butoh after meeting in Florence Italy during a Butoh workshop led by Vangeline and organized by Wade Dance.
They also discuss how beneficial gentle butoh techniques can be to actors and performers.
For more information about Christine Albeck Børge, go to https://www.allthatmanagement.dk/klient.php?kid=129&tid=2&lang=da&p=showreel
For more information about Marie Bach Hansen, go to: https://www.instagram.com/missmariebach/
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2024-07-211h 04
Stage WhisperWhisper in the Wings Episode 535For the latest Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we were joined by several choreographers/performers from this years Queer Butoh 2024. This was such a fascinating conversation about some wonderful pieces, as well as this beautiful art form. So tune in now, and hurry to get your tickets before they are gone!Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute and The Brick Theater PresentQueer Butoh 2024June 26th-29thTickets and more information are available at bricktheater.com or https://www.vangeline.com/calendar-of-upcoming-eventsAnd...
2024-06-1935 min
InterviewsA Conversation with Butoh Teacher VangelineIn this podcast interview, Monastic Hokyu Aronson speaks with guest instructor Vangeline about embodied movement...
2024-06-0135 minButoh musing with VangelineButoh, Sensitivity, Sensuality and the Nervous System with VangelineThis second episode focuses on Butoh, Sensitivity, Sensuality, and the Nervous System, and is an audio recording of my video lecture on the subject. This episode also explores Butoh and eroticism, the history of women in Butoh, and Feminism.
2024-04-061h 07Butoh musing with VangelineButoh: the art of listening with VangelineListen to three short preambles by Vangeline recorded on each day of her last 3-day zoom workshop focusing on the art of listening in Butoh.
These reflections are meant to support Butoh practitioners with their Butoh practice and give context on Butoh as an art form.
2024-03-2522 min
Stage WhisperWhisper in the Wings Episode 367On the latest episode of Whisper in the Wings from Stage Whisper, we are joined by director Rob Roth and choreographer Vangeline, to talk about their work, Screen Test, which is being screened for a benefit for the Wild Project. You won't want to miss this conversation as well as event supporting a great theatre and great artists. So tune in and turn up!Screen TestA Wild Project benefit ScreeningSaturday, March 2nd at 7pm@ The Wild Project (193 E 3rd St)Tickets and more information are...
2024-03-0137 min
Der EDUCAST von du & ich - DAS ATELIERdu & ich – DAS ATELIER/ EPISODE #21
du
& ich – DAS ATELIER/ Episode 21: Achtsamkeit
& Kunst/ Butoh – Tanze ins Licht
Butoh.
So nennt sich der zeitgenössische japanische Tanz. Butoh schafft aus
der Verbindung von Nō,
Kabuki
und
westlichem Tanztheater eine eigene, ketzerische Verarbeitung
japanischer Traditionen.
Elemente westlichen Tanztheaters im
japanischen zeitgenössischen Tanz? Wie das?
Der
Begriff stammt vom japanischen ‚Ankoku Butoh’, zu Deutsch ‚Tanz
der Finsternis’, und genau das war Butoh zu Beginn. Mit
Kazuo Ohno hat der Ausdruckstanz jedoch lieben gelernt.
Über
das Schöne im Hässlichen...
Links:
Admiring
La Argent...
2021-05-2121 min
Movers & Shapers: A Dance PodcastMSP 92: VangelineToday's guest is Vangeline. Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century, and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute. She is also the founder of the 12-year running, award-winning program "Dream a Dream Project", which brings butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. For more info on this episode: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
2019-11-2159 minMovers & Shapers: A Dance PodcastMSP 92: VangelineToday's guest is Vangeline. Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in the Japanese postwar avant-garde movement form Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese Butoh while carrying it into the 21st century, and the founder of the New York Butoh Institute. She is also the founder of the 12-year running, award-winning program "Dream a Dream Project", which brings butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. For more info on this episode: www.themovingarchitects.org/podcasts
2019-11-2159 min