Butoh Class with Sindy Butz

Sunday, Sept 7 2025
5:00-7:00 pm EST

115 Wooster Street

2nd floor dance studio

Hosted by Vangeline Theater / New York Butoh Institute

Sindy Butz is an interdisciplinary performance artist, visionary choreographer, and costume designer whose work merges conceptual endurance performance, Butoh dance, Somatic Research, ceramics, and multisensory installations. Renowned for her research-driven practice, she explores themes of embodiment, states of consciousness, emotional intelligence, time perception, sacred space, and ritual, creating works that challenge and captivate audiences globally. A principal dancer with the Vangeline Theater since 2010, Butz has trained extensively in Japanese Butoh under masters such as Natsu Nakajima, Mari Osanai, Tetsuro Fukuhara, Tadashi Endo, Yoshito Ohno, Semimaru of Sankai Juku, and Vangeline. Furthermore, Butz is a Dynamic Embodiment Practitioner, a somatic method founded by Dr. Martha Eddy. She is certified in BodyMind Dancing and FlemingElastxx, and trains Chi Kung extensively with director Daria Faïn. She has been a faculty member of the New York Butoh Institute since 2016. She is a sought-after educator, teaching at universities, dance schools, and art institutions across North America and Europe.

Her immersive installations and performances have been showcased at prestigious venues, including Bric Arts Media, The United Theater on Broadway L.A., Queens Museum, Wave Hill, Dixon Place, and in group shows at Movement Research, the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, and Asian American Art Alliance. In recent years, Sindy created the sculptural costumes and choreography for the Grammy-nominated opera Black Lodge by David T. Little and its pre-show Bardo, directed by Emmy-nominated filmmaker Sandra Powers, produced by Beth Morrison Projects, and co-commissioned by Opera Philadelphia. The Marina Abramovic Institute has featured her solo works, Hearth and Homage to Hildegard of Bingen, further cementing her reputation as a pioneering artist.

Butz holds degrees in Visual Arts (AKI Enschede, Netherlands) and Art Science (University of the Arts Berlin, Germany) and was a DAAD-funded fellow at ITP-Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, New York. Her groundbreaking work bridges the realms of art, movement, and introspection, positioning her as a leading figure in contemporary performance art.