Butoh musing with Vangeline

Recorded 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 pl...

Listen 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

The 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/

In 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...

This 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...

In 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/

In 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. https://www.instagram.com/allmyfriendsaresuperheroes/ https...

In 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 f...

In 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 epi...

In 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/...

This 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, sectio...

In 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, g...

This 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.

Listen 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.