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Butoh musing with Vangeline

Award-winning Butoh artist Vangeline shares her reflections on Butoh as an art form. Many of these musings are recorded during Vangeline's lectures, and zoom workshops. Cover photo: Vangeline by Matthew Placek www.vangeline.com

New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 1 hr 3 min
Latest: 14 Sep 2025
Language: English

Latest episode

14 Sep 2025 · 1 hr

Butoh: Behind the Curtain

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 pleasure, safety, intimacy, connection, dissolving trauma, and the discipline of technique as a vessel for transformation — the true heartbeat of the workshop. Thanks to the exquisite photography and…

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5 Jul 2025 · 42 min
Butoh: the Search for Dignity
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
E12 · 28 Apr 2025 · 36 min
The Body as a Vessel
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/
S1 · E11 · 17 Dec 2024 · 37 min
Conversation at Zen Mountain Monastery
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, and speaks widely on the benefits of butoh as a form of creative engagement, she is quick to add that butoh should not be considered a replacement for therapy, and nor should Zen practice. That…
S1 · E10 · 17 Dec 2024 · 1 hr 17 min
Dance as Service--A Butoh Sanctuary
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 learn more about Butoh Sanctuary, visit www.butohsanctuary.org
S1 · E9 · 18 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
Melissa Lohman: We are human material
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/
5 Nov 2024 · 1 hr 21 min
Butoh: The Ego-less State-Conversation with Christine Albeck Borge and Oliver Marcus Starpov
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://www.instagram.com/christinealbeck/ @ livhelm
16 Oct 2024 · 58 min
Butoh: the endless road--conversation with Eugenia Vargas, Natalia Cuellar and Alice Baldock
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 form in the world. Read their biographies here: https://www.vangeline.com/calendar-of-upcoming-events/2024/10/14/panel-discussion-women-latin-america-and-butoh
2 Sep 2024 · 56 min
Butoh in Singapore: Butoh is Dance
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 episode was recorded on September 1st, 2024. Check them out: https://sgbutoh.co/ A couple of corrections: The first Butoh performance was Kinjiki, or Forbidden Ciolors, not Forbidden Flowers. Also, The two women…
15 Aug 2024 · 1 hr 6 min
Machine Dazzle and Vangeline--Saying Yes to Life
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/2024/8/15/venus-ex-machina-machine-dazzle-and-vangeline Machine Dazzle. Emmy award winner and beloved downtown bon vivant and all-around creative provocateur Machine Dazzle has been dazzling stages via costumes,…
28 Jul 2024 · 1 hr 3 min
MAN WOMAN: Akihito Ichihara and Vangeline at Monira Residency
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, section by section, for the sound artist composing the soundscape. About my guest and collaborator: Akihito Ichihara is a renowned Butoh dancer (Sankai Juku, ELF). To learn more about MAN WOMAN visit…
S1 · E3 · 21 Jul 2024 · 1 hr 5 min
Butoh: The art of Receiving--Conversation with actresses Marie Bach Hansen and Christine Albeck Børge
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, go to https://www.allthatmanagement.dk/klient.php?kid=129&tid=2&lang=da&p=showreel For more information about Marie Bach Hansen, go to: https://www.instagram.com/missmariebach/ www.vangeline.com
6 Apr 2024 · 1 hr 8 min
Butoh, Sensitivity, Sensuality and the Nervous System with Vangeline
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.
25 Mar 2024 · 23 min
Butoh: the art of listening with Vangeline
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.

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Publisher: Vangeline
Language: English
Category: Arts & Books
New episodes: Monthly
Typical length: 1 hr 3 min
Latest episode: 14 Sep 2025
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