# Event Details - **Event Name**: Butoh Dance Workshop - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 09:00 pm (-05:00) - **Event Description**: Butoh dance training is an invaluable tool for dancers, actors, and creative people of all types.About this EventButoh dance training is an invaluable tool for dancers, actors, and creative people of all types. Sara leads you in exercises to expand your body physically and energetically through breath and meditation techniques, vocal warm-ups, Noguchi Taiso, Qigong, Daoyin, visual imagery and improvisational scores.This workshop lights on ideas of the transformative body and the importance of the lived moment, in order to experience some essential concepts in Butoh. Experimenting with distortion in timing, the uncanny, and the grotesque, we explore how presence and space can be activated on different temporalities. Applying these techniques can expand the vocabulary of embodied movement. This workshop encourages participants to find beauty in the horror of the grimace, to transform ourselves from one state to another, and move from deeply internal impulses to find more unique expressions in our outer movements. We will work with forms, images, and butoh fu from the lineage of Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno and students and descendants of these Butoh traditions.There will be time for reflection using automatic writing and/or drawing exercises and short improvised showings to more fully integrate ideas into usable material for making strong choreographic and performance decisions. This is a supportive environment to start an individual and collective process of investigation through creative movement. We will open and expand our awareness, move with our subtler senses, create and witness our personal body language.Sara Zalek (@01saratonin) is a transdisciplinary artist, producer, and curator. Rooted in physical investigations of transformation of trauma to resilience, their work is intimate, raw, poetic. Zalek ignites dialog with the public using unexpected encounters; always with unknowns, often with humor, and with an intentional focus on the moment when the self is limitless potential.  Zalek performs often in both live and online situations; The City of Chicago named them an Esteemed Artist in 2022. Elastic Arts Foundation awarded them a Curatorial Grant in 2020 for Hot Mess! A hybrid performance event.They were a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist in 2015, a 2017 3Arts Make a Wave Awardee, and Ragdale Foundation Fellow. They have performed and curated performances at the Chicago Cultural Center, High Concept Labs, Elastic Arts, Experimental Sound Studio, Links Hall, Lumpen Radio, dfbrl8r, SITE/less, Urban Guild in Kyoto, Japan, and so many more.Through Butoh Curious, Zalek connects national and international teaching artists with Chicago art makers across genres in the independent and fringe arenas (including dance, butoh, physical theater, experimental and improvisational music). They create opportunities for positive communication and arts integration using workshops, performances, and conversations about personal and collective bodies. Butoh Curious https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/793d13e0-1075-11f1-ba8b-3f5afee59419-rimg-w1200-h692-dc020202-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/79a60ee0-1075-11f1-b205-49d23285143a-rimg-w1200-h678-dcc1295e-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/chicago/butoh-dance-workshop/100001983282270660 - **Event Categories**: workshops, art, dance, entertainment, health-wellness, theatre, business, fine-arts, meditation - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fbutoh-dance-workshop-tickets-1983282270660 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 28.45, max: 49.77, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Chicago - **state**: IL - **country**: United States - **location**: Japanese Culture Center - **lat**: 41.93513290000001 - **long**: -87.66263889999999 - **full address**: Japanese Culture Center, 2940 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Japanese Culture Center (https://allevents.in/org/japanese-culture-center/17612254) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/7050d51f30f6582af4657cd7db4fd067a359d3f75a9aba49f37729549252a974-rimg-w1080-h654-dc120812-gmir.jpg?v=1771823229 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/ad209c6fdeedba5d461c9d9cf85412c16bd5ad94a58aae5960a74595a5502da1-rimg-w400-h400-dc140817-gmir.jpg?v=1771823228 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 23 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-05:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Japanese Culture Center, 2940 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 28.45 up to 49.77 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Japanese Culture Center - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** workshops, art, dance, entertainment, health-wellness, theatre, business, fine-arts, meditation - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Butoh Dance Workshop ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Butoh Dance Workshop", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/7050d51f30f6582af4657cd7db4fd067a359d3f75a9aba49f37729549252a974-rimg-w1080-h654-dc120812-gmir.jpg?v=1771823229", "startDate": "2026-05-23T18:30:00-05:00", "endDate": "2026-05-23T21:00:00-05:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/chicago/butoh-dance-workshop/100001983282270660", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Japanese Culture Center", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "2940 North Lincoln Avenue", "postalCode": "60657", "addressLocality": "Chicago", "addressRegion": "IL", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "41.93513290000001", "longitude": "-87.66263889999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Butoh dance training is an invaluable tool for dancers, actors, and creative people of all types.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-23", "availabilityEnds": "2026-05-23T21:00:00-05:00", "validFrom": "2026-02-23", "lowPrice": "28.45", "highPrice": "49.77", "price": "28.45", "url": "https://allevents.in/chicago/butoh-dance-workshop/100001983282270660" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-23", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-02-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/chicago/butoh-dance-workshop/100001983282270660", "price": "28.45", "name": "Student Price" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-02-23", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-02-23", "url": "https://allevents.in/chicago/butoh-dance-workshop/100001983282270660", "price": "49.77", "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Japanese Culture Center", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/japanese-culture-center/17612254", "description": "Email: 0\r\nWebsite: https://japaneseculturecenter.com/organizer/japanese-culture-center/\r\n" } ] } ] ```