New York Butoh Institute Announces 2026 Queer Butoh Festival

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute are excited to announce the 2026 Queer Butoh Festival, set for June 24 through June 27, 2026 at 8pm at The Brick Theater, 579 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, 11211 United States. Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased here.

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.

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. For more information, please visit here.

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

VANGELINE THEATER/ NEW YORK BUTOH INSTITUTE aims to preserve the legacy and integrity of Japanese Butoh while carrying the art form into the future, with a special emphasis on education, social justice, research, and archiving. Vangeline Theater programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. www.vangeline.com

The Brick Theater is a not-for-profit dedicated to developing and presenting the work of pioneering emerging artists and career experimenters in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We are the artistic home for work that pushes boundaries and spans the ever-evolving spectrum of performing arts, theatre, dance, video, virtual reality, and visual arts. By nurturing emerging artists, sustaining ongoing relationships with frequent collaborators, and removing financial barriers for artists to create work, we create a diverse, accessible, and inclusive artistic community for the city’s most daring artists. We welcome adventurous audiences with low-cost and sliding-scale ticket prices to make performances accessible to all.

Founded in 2002, The Brick has established itself as an essential experimental venue for the production of compelling, new, high-quality work. As a vital part of the New York artistic community, we present 250-300 live performances per year at our two spaces, The Brick and Brick Aux, and welcome over 10,000 audience members each year.

The Brick enters its third decade with a bold new vision and an abiding belief in the power of art. With a renewed focus on multi-week theatrical runs and a dynamic line-up of singular one-off events, The Brick is Williamsburg’s primary incubator of innovative theater and performing arts. bricktheater.com

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