Vangeline Theater/ New York Butoh Institute

and The Brick Theater

present

Queer Butoh 2026

10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION

June 24-27, 2026

“…queer themes and imagery have been recurring, if not instrumental, in Butoh. The concepts of otherness and ambiguity, particularly with respect to gender identity and sexuality, permeate its narratives. Drag, androgyny and fluidity are staple elements.” – Cassidy George, The New York Times

Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute, in collaboration with The Brick Theater, presents the 10th anniversary edition of the Queer Butoh Festival, running Wednesday, June 24 through Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 8 PM at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Tickets start at $25 and are available for purchase here soon.

Celebrating a decade of radical performance and embodied experimentation, Queer Butoh Festival returns to New York City with four evenings of interdisciplinary performance exploring the evolving landscape of Butoh in NYC and beyond. This year’s festival brings together local and international artists from Mexico, Belgium, South Korea, Singapore, Chile, and across the United States, highlighting Butoh as a global and ever-evolving art form rooted in transformation, experimentation, and radical presence.

Through dance, ritual, sound, and interdisciplinary performance, the festival continues its decade-long commitment to queer expression, artistic risk-taking, and cross-cultural exchange.

The festival will feature performances across all four nights by Fana Muñoz and Moisés Regla (Mexico), Camille Raséra (Belgium), Miu Kim (South Korea), and Dani Cole (NYC). Additional featured artists include Milo Longenecker (USA) on June 24–25, Zo Roze (USA) on June 24 and 27, Oscar Suh-Rodriguez (Chile/USA) on June 25–26, Eric Lichtenstein (USA) on June 26, and Robyn Wong Min Xuan (Singapore) on June 27.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 2026

Milo Longenecker, Miu Kim, Camille Raséra, Fana Muñoz & Moisés Regla, Zo Roze, Dani Cole

WORKS PRESENTED

Aeternus Nocturnus (Fana Muñoz & Moisés Regla) is an interdisciplinary performance that explores the nocturnal dimension of the human psyche. Inspired by the ritual dynamics of nightlife culture, the piece investigates states of trance, intensity, and introspection that emerge when the structures of the day dissolve. Through dance, sound, and visual landscapes, the work unfolds as a journey from collective ecstasy toward an intimate confrontation with the self.

Camille Rasera: “Hâre” is a strange creature: sometimes a dragonfly, sometimes a moth, perhaps Charon: the ferryman of the underworld. Above the Styx, she draws the moonbeams, sinks into the mud, dissolves until strange shapes emerge.

Miu Kim: SRAA explores the missing layer between bodily sensation and behavioral action. Through breath expansion, tremor, collapse, and instinctive movement, the performer navigates the pressure of being seen. Holding a smartphone like a sensing device, the body shifts between animal response and deliberate action, returning the gaze to the audience.SRAA is part of an ongoing research project exploring how sensing transforms into agency in live situations.

Dani Cole: matsu is an emergent Butoh dialogue between ancestor and place. matsu draws from the gaps between migration stories of Cole’s grandmother Yukie, as well as Cole’s annual visitations to Yukie’s former home site, steadily being reclaimed by forest, in Southern U.S. tobacco country. Cole imagines their body as a conduit for a politically and ecologically-rich unearthing of global familiarity and difference – ritual and change entangling across generations and lands.

Milo Longnecker-Photo by Svetlana Dubkova

Milo Longnecker: Diving Instrument. An experiment, a ritual, an evocation. A testament to interconnectivity. If a crystal ball or tarot deck or tea leaves can act as objects of divination – conduits of questions and answers between humans and the beyond – why can’t a body?

Zo Roze: Static is an iteration of movement, sound, and technology orbiting the electromagnetic spectrum. Finding admiration in photonics, Zo embodies the qualities and dynamics of light, channelling the fluctuations of ions. Liminal yet charged, they parallel their body to become refracted in space with a conductive soundscape by Gabe Postel.

BIOGRAPHIES

Milo Longenecker (USA)

Milo Longenecker is a theatremaker, movement artist, and educator based in Washington, DC by way of NYC. His work explores the intersection of dance and theater, investigating queer immateriality through movement and the relationship between physical and emotional bodies. Trained in jazz, ballet, tap, modern, contemporary, Butoh, Viewpoints, and Contact Improvisation, Milo has presented choreography Off-Broadway, in academic theater, festivals, and DIY spaces. He is currently an MFA Dance candidate at the University of Maryland and has performed and collaborated with organizations including The Public Theater, Ars Nova, New York Theatre Workshop, and LaMaMa.

Miu Kim (South Korea)

Miu Kim is a Seoul-based performance artist developing body-based protocols that explore how sensation transforms into action in live situations. Her work investigates the relationship between nervous system responses, perception, and behavioral agency through movement, tremor, and durational performance. She has presented works at Ilmin Museum of Art and the Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, and continues to develop SRAA as an ongoing research framework through performance and collaborative experimentation.

Camille Raséra (Belgium)

Camille Raséra is a Belgian performer who trained with artists including Masaki Iwana and Moeno Wakamatsu. Her performance practice is rooted in a deep awareness of space and the movement of consciousness. She has performed internationally in France, Spain, Japan, Belgium, and Luxembourg, including appearances at BOZAR in Brussels, the Odeon in Paris, and the Grec Festival in Barcelona.

Fana Muñoz & Moisés Regla (Mexico)

Fana Muñoz and Moisés Regla are a transdisciplinary duo from Mexico whose collaborative practice merges body, sound, image, and technology to explore altered states of perception. Combining dance, music, visual art, spoken poetry, performance, and new media, they create immersive ritualistic environments that challenge traditional artistic categories. Their work has been presented internationally in museums, festivals, and cultural spaces, including projects such as Delirium Psicoactivo and Aeternus. Their performances investigate transformation, memory, desire, and expanded perception through interdisciplinary experimentation.

Zo Roze (USA)

Zo Roze is an interdisciplinary artist whose work integrates movement, sound, design, and technology. Exploring the relationship between the physical body and psychic space, Zo creates immersive environments that channel states of tension, fragmentation, and transformation through movement and sensory experimentation.

Dani Cole (USA)

Dani Cole (they/them) is an experimental dance artist, poet, tree steward, and Licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist based in NYC. Their work is deeply informed by ecology, disability justice, and embodied relationality, exploring the interconnectedness between bodies, environments, and systems of care. Cole has presented choreography throughout New York and collaborated with artists and organizations including jill sigman/thinkdance and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company. They study Butoh with Vangeline and have also trained with Dai Matsuoka and Eiko Otake. Cole’s interdisciplinary practice extends into environmental stewardship and writing; their debut poetry collection, Between Heart and Sap, was published in 2025.

Queer Butoh Festival at the Brick Theater