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 New Yorkers 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.

FRIDAY JUNE 26, 2026

Miu Kim, Camille Raséra, Fana Muñoz & Moisés Regla, Oscar Suh-Rodriguez, Eric Lichtenstein, 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.

Eric Lichtenstein: An Embarrassment of Riches

An Embarrassment of Riches is a ritual excavation of inherent worth, often buried beneath layers of ego identity and distorted by societal pressure, waiting to be remembered. At the core sits our birthright: a wellspring of vital energy, a primordial inheritance of creative life-force that redefines wealth and connects us to true power.

Oscar Suh-Rodriguez: Butterfly Harvest. Butterfly Harvest conveys the dreams, labors, and desires that unfold within the daily ritual of a humble butterfly farmer. The piece was inspired by quaint keepers of livestock in Chile and seeing how they lived with their livestock and treated them with love, all while raising them to one day be slain—not out of malice but necessity. It seeks to traverse the blurred line between what it means to create and destroy, admire and devour.

BIOGRAPHIES

Eric Lichtenstein (USA)

Eric Lichtenstein is an interdisciplinary artist and educator born and based in NYC. His work explores archetypes, symbolism, and expressions emerging from the individual and collective unconscious. He is the founder of Lightstone Laboratories, an organization dedicated to experimental artistic exchange through workshops, performances, and interdisciplinary creative action in NYC and internationally.

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.

Oscar Suh-Rodriguez (Chile-USA)

Oscar Suh-Rodriguez is a Chilean American Butoh dancer, composer, and interdisciplinary artist based in NYC. Working across choreography and sound composition, he creates modular, impulse-driven performances informed by Butoh, jazz improvisation, and physical theater traditions. Influenced by artists including Kazuo Ohno, Étienne Decroux, Alejandro Jodorowsky, and the broader Butoh community, his work explores transformation, instinct, hybridity, and the tension between tenderness and violence. In 2024, he presented his first solo work, lilio, at Chez Bushwick in NYC and at Rhizome in Washington, DC. In 2025, he performed in Vangeline Theater’s Freedom’s Descent during the NYC Dance Parade. In 2026, he premiered his solo work Blood-Mother and the collaborative work Chimaera with Eilish Henderson at Greenlung Studio.

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