PERFORMANCE BUTOH ART
Paula Jeanine Benett (New York)
Elisa Einsiedler (Ger)
RenRi (Japan)
Mrs.Be ( B.H-S, Ger)
Anastasia Stefanidou (Gr)
Marco Nektan (Serbia)
Veronica Vetrila (Italy)
Alexander Wetzlik (Ger)
Coco Villarreal (Mex)
Ingo Taleb Rashid (Ger/Irak)
Marius Soluna (Schweiz)
Idee /Organisation : B. Hanel-Stocker
Supported by Anastasia Stefanidou
Info und Anmeldung:
barbara.h.s@web.de
Workshop Coco Villarreal 6.12.2026
Ticket pro abend 25.- €
Kombi für beide Abende 40.-
Mrs.be (B.H.S)
Butoh performance artist based in the Chiemsee region of Bavaria, she has worked with Butoh and movement practices for many years. Her performances explore the body as landscape, architecture, and material, often engaging with themes of female experience, identity, and transformation.
Her solo Female Topography has been presented at Body Poetry Festival ’25, RAW Festival Berlin ’26, Startelpa Festival Riga ’26, and Winterschool Fraueninsel ’26, among other performances in 2026.
Veronica Vetrila
Veroníca Vetrilă is a multidisciplinary artist, Butoh dancer, and performer, born in Moldova and based in Italy. With a background in fashion and textile design, she turned towards movement, the body, and performance. Her Butoh practice has been shaped by artists including Atsushi Takenouchi, Imre Thormann, and Marek Jason Isleib. Her work explores stillness, instinct, memory, and the poetic relationship between body, image, and space.
Coco Villarreal, Mexico
He approaches Butoh as araw encounter with the body, beyond fixed forms and aesthetic expectations. His practice brings together movement,voice, breath,rythm and a deeply physical precsence.
He`s director of Ix-butoh theatre and has a experience over decades of learning, performing and teaching.
ix-butoh.com
Ingo Taleb Rashid Germany-Iraq
He works at the meeting point of dance, theatre, spirituality and embodied movement,He is the founder of Movement Concept® and artistic director of El Haddawi.His artistic language has grown from a remarkably diverse field of influencesincluding Butoh, Noh theatre, martial arts, Capoeira, dancetheatre and Middle Eastern movement and meditation traditions.
RenRi (Rie Horiuchi) is a Japanese Shodō artist based in Regensburg, Germany. Her work connects traditional Japanese calligraphy with contemporary creativity, mindfulness, and performance. In her live calligraphy, each brushstroke emerges through movement, breath, concentration, and presence. She explores the space between line and movement, silence and expression—bringing the Japanese concept of MA, the space in between, into a living artistic experience.
Elisa Einsiedler Germany
She is a musician, violinist, and improvisational performer whose work is rooted in a deep exploration of sound, listening, and musical presence. Working with violin, voice, and extended forms of improvisation, she explores the space between composed music and spontaneous creation. Her practice increasingly opens into movement and Butoh, allowing sound to become a physical and spatial experience
Anastasia Stefanidou
Performance artist based in Bavaria and head of Yellow Butoh, she moves between the body and the unknown. Her solo works unfold through encounters with a pole, shifting textures, materials,never ending stories..She was part of the festival 2025
Paula Jeanine Benett, New York
she is a multidisplinary artist and moves between butoh, Perfromance voice, music,poetry and visual art.Her Performances create atmospheric spaces in which she exploresarchitecture, time,loss and nature.....for example "the wanting creature" which she presented in Warsaw at the butohpolis 2025
Marco Nektan, Serbia
Basedin Berlin, performance artist, Butoh dancer, choreographer and teacher. His performance art crosses the threshold from Butoh dance and performance art into contemporary dance. His influences come from research into the subconscious and philosophy, from elements of surrealism, from the “spirit” of abstraction, and from the phenomenology of conceptual art. Marco offers various Butoh and performance art workshops as well as regular online Butoh classes.
Marius Soluna
Swiss multidisciplinary artist and Butoh practitioner with more than 20 years of experience. His practice brings together Butoh, visual poetry, somatic awareness, meditation, and the transformative potential of movement. His artistic path has been shaped by Subbody Butoh with Rhizome Lee and Jinen Butoh with Atsushi Takenouchi, among other influences. Since 2020, he has been developing his own evolving approach to embodied movement, presented through performances, workshops, and immersive experiences across Europe.
resonart.ch
Alexander Wetzlik
He is a freelance Butoh dancer and choreographer who recently moved to the Chiemgau region in Bavaria with his family. For more than 20 years, Butoh has been his artistic home. His work has been shaped by artists including Alessandro Pintus, Tadashi Endo, Atsushi Takenouchi and Yoshito Ohno.
In his own practice, Wenzlik combines the principles of Butoh with contemporary dance, developing an individual, distinctly European movement language. Mythological and existential themes are recurring starting points for his artistic research. In "Dionyzoé " he explored the figure of Dionysus and his ecstatic, transformative power .
Bob Lyness
Based in UK brings his background in experimental theatre and ritual performance into every piece, creating emotionally charged, immersive atmospheres.
Erica Hassan
Dancer, Butoh artist and somatic movement educator from the United States. Her artistic practice brings together contemporary dance, Butoh, and somatic bodywork. Her work with Min Tanaka, as well as her long-standing engagement with GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS®, has been deeply influential in shaping her practice. At the heart of her work are presence, breath, and the subtle intelligence of the moving body.
