at The Headwaters Center for International Exchanges in the Arts

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Yumiko Yoshioka studied and performed with butoh’s founders Hijikata and Ohno, and was both an original member of Ariaadine, Japan’s first female butoh company, and a participant in the first performance of butoh outside of Japan, in Paris in 1978. Using the cultural “friction” between East and West as a creative engine for her work, Yumiko became a leader on the burgeoning European butoh scene, ultimately settling in Berlin, Germany in 1988. Ms. Yoshioka is currently a resident artist at the internationally renowned Schloss Broellin (Castle of Broellin) theater research center.  As both performer and choreographer, Yumiko’s work explores the possibility of metamorphosis and transformation in performance by activating primal memory through physical movement.  This project will be the culmination of 10 days working with local dancers.

“We are breaking borders of the soul–
to be out of all of the boxes, habits and
repetitions….to open the self to go
beyond nationality, language and
difference.”

-Diego Piñón, Mexico

Information and Registration

We have expanded and moved our home in North Portland.  The Headwaters will open its doors again in early 2010 with a new studio + black box theatre!  Our first visiting artists include Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Berlin) and Diego Piñón (Mexico).

We are currently seeking performers and groups to partner with us in the new space.  If this sounds intriguing to you, please contact us for more information.