Butoh is a post-war art form born from silence and resistance — where the body becomes a tool to explore deep emotions, memories, and transformation. It stands at the edge of dance, philosophy, and the unknown.
At Säule, eight Butoh artists from different generations of Berlin’s scene come together — each with their own style, background, and way of moving. Some are minimal, others raw and wild. Some slow, some sudden.
But this is not a traditional performance. It’s a living structure — an open algorithm that sparks improvisation: solo dances shift into duets, quartets, then break apart again. Everything happens in real time, in dialogue with the space, the crowd, and the sound.
Set inside the klubnacht rhythm, Butoh becomes a force that vibrates with techno. The artists don’t just perform — they resonate. And the audience is part of this field, not separate from it.
Butoh Night is not a show.
It’s an experience. A shared state.
Raw. Unpredictable. Alive.
A Night of Movement and Resonance
Butoh is a post-war art form born from silence and resistance — where the body becomes a tool to explore deep emotions, memories, and transformation. It stands at the edge of dance, philosophy, and the unknown.
At Säule, eight Butoh artists from different generations of Berlin’s scene come together — each with their own style, background, and way of moving. Some are minimal, others raw and wild. Some slow, some sudden.
But this is not a traditional performance. It’s a living structure — an open algorithm that sparks improvisation: solo dances shift into duets, quartets, then break apart again. Everything happens in real time, in dialogue with the space, the crowd, and the sound.
Set inside the klubnacht rhythm, Butoh becomes a force that vibrates with techno. The artists don’t just perform — they resonate. And the audience is part of this field, not separate from it.
Butoh Night is not a show.
It’s an experience. A shared state.
Raw. Unpredictable. Alive.
Yuko Kaseki
Yuko Kaseki is a Berlin-based director, choreographer, Butoh dancer, performer, improviser, and teacher. Founder of the dance company cokaseki, she has presented solo and collaborative works in over 30 countries. Her vivid, poetic performances merge Butoh, improvisation, and live art, giving voice to the unseen and marginalized, exploring themes of transformation and social contradiction.
Carmen Lafran
Carmen Lafran is a Berlin-based interdisciplinary performance and movement artist with a background in philosophy. Their work interrogates the body as a site of political negotiation and resistance. Bridging Butoh, dance theater, and performance art, Lafran’s research embraces contradiction, failure, and unpredictability. They perform across Europe’s underground and institutional stages.
Coco Katsura
Coco Katsura began performing in Tokyo’s underground scene in 2000. Blending traditional Japanese aesthetics with gothic and body modification culture, she has appeared on over 100 stages worldwide. Her recent work integrates bondage movement and Butoh, often in collaboration with video, sound, and performance artists to craft deeply atmospheric experiences.
Hikaru Inagawa
Hikaru Inagawa is a Berlin-based Butoh dancer, director, and founder of 4RUDE—a performing arts group focused on nonverbal, experiential performance. A former member of Ku Na’uka Theatre Company, he studied under Satoshi Miyagi and Yukio Waguri. His work merges Butoh with theatrical form and explores inner states. In 2025, 4RUDE celebrates its 20th anniversary with a new series of performances.
Nika Kim
Nika Kim is a Russian-Korean Butoh dancer and movement artist based in Berlin. Her work is rooted in ritual, symbolism, and intuitive improvisation. Drawing from Jungian archetypes, throat singing, and mantra, she crafts performances that evoke collective memory and subconscious transformation, treating Butoh as a metaphysical language of presence.
Rareș Grozea
Rareș Grozea is a Berlin-based Butoh dancer and writer. A member of the 4RUDE Theater-Butoh Company since 2019, they perform in contemporary and public spaces. With a PhD in progress in English Literature at Humboldt University, their practice blends language and movement into a poetics of limitation, erasure, and concealed expression.
Tomoya Kawamura
Tomoya Kawamura is a Berlin-based actor, movement director, and physical theater performer from Tokyo. With 15 years of experience in traditional Japanese mask theatre, he now explores hybrid forms combining Eastern aesthetics with contemporary themes such as queerness, gender, and trauma. He has collaborated with major European theatres and festivals, including Berliner Ensemble and Festival D’Aix-en-Provence.
Valentin Tszin
Valentin Tszin is a visionary Butoh performer and choreographer known for fusing rave culture, techno, and digital art with physical theater. Based in Berlin, his transdisciplinary work spans architecture, film, and contemporary art. He has performed at international festivals and leads workshops and masterclasses, exploring the limits of bodily perception and psychological states.
Yoshihiro Shimomura
Born in Tokyo in 1981, Yoshihiro Shimomura is a multidisciplinary performer whose background spans ballet, jazz, street, and traditional Japanese dance. His performances unfold in both conventional and alternative spaces—abandoned buildings, temples, and public areas—collaborating with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. He also teaches Butoh and directs theatrical pieces.
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