Vangeline Receives Grant from Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation To Perform The Slowest Wave

Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute announced today that founder Vangeline has received a grant from the FIBUTOH Body and Memory Festival in Chile to perform The Slowest Wave and teach Butoh classes.

The performance of The Slowest Wave will take place on November 4, 2026 at 7PM CLST. For tickets, please visit here. Contact: rutadelamemoria@gmail.com

The Slowest Wave is a solo Butoh work choreographed and performed by Vangeline, with an original score by Ray Sweeten. This repertory work highlights Vangeline’s sculptural approach to Butoh, where stillness shapes the body into a living landscape. Her choreography resists softness, instead creating unexpected angular forms—triangles, arches, cranes—that transform the female body into architecture and living landscape. An award-winning project combining butoh and neuroscience, supported by a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Dance Award, The Slowest Wave explores the theme of waves as a symbol of femininity and female sensuality.

The Slowest Wave was recently featured in The New York Times. The choreography was uniquely informed by the protocol established for a scientific pilot study researching the impact of butoh on brain activity. For the groundbreaking art-science study, dancers' brain activity was recorded at the University of Houston, Texas. Results were then disseminated in scientific journals.