Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute is excited to announce that Vangeline will be performing atQuantum Physique on May 10, 2025 at 10pm at the Chocolate Factory, 70 Scott Ave Brooklyn. Tickets start at $33 and can be purchased at ra.co/events/2145872.

Tiresias Presents Quantum Physique (WHEN YOU SWEAT / I FEEL WET) is an experimental performance art rave for transcendental beings. Featuring dance, butoh, and performance activations all night by Vangeline, Jarrett Key, Mizuho Kappa, Gage Spex, God Complex, Kennie Zhou, and Tiresias, and techno sets by Johanna Constantine, Vile, and Fashion.

“I invited Vangeline because I have been a great admirer of her work for a long time, and I have at last found the perfect project––a butoh-infused experimental art rave about embodiment, catharsis, ecstasy & entanglement––to inaugurate our long-awaited collaboration,” said Tiresias.

Vangeline is a teacher, dancer, and choreographer specializing in Japanese Butoh. She is the artistic director of the Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute (New York), a dance company firmly rooted in the tradition of Japanese butoh while carrying it into the twenty-first century. The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute is dedicated to advancing Butoh in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis on education, social justice, research, and archiving.

The Vangeline Theater/New York Butoh Institute reaches out to the New York and international community by offering public Butoh classes, workshops, and performances through collaborations with international and national Butoh artists. Our socially conscious performances tie together butoh and activism; our work addresses issues of gender inequality and social justice. Our yearly New York Butoh Institute Festival elevates the visibility of women in butoh, and our festival Queer Butoh gives a voice to LGBTQIA+ butoh artists.

Our award-winning, 18-year running program, The Dream a Dream Project, brings Butoh dance to incarcerated men and women at correctional facilities across New York State. “The Dream a Dream Project” contributes to the rehabilitation of New York’s incarcerated population. Overall, our programs promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in the field of butoh.

Vangeline firmly believes that Butoh can be an instrument of personal and collective transformation in the 21st century. This transformation comes from holding a mirror to each other and integrating our many facets–the beautiful and the ugly; and from reintegrating the forgotten of our society into our midst.

Vangeline’s choreographed works have been performed in Chile, Hong Kong, Germany, Denmark, France, Italy, Singapore, the UK, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. She is a 2022/2023 Gibney Dance Dance in Process residency and the 2022 National Endowment for the Arts Dance Award winner. She is also a 2018 NYFA/NYSCA Artist Fellow in Choreography for Elsewhere, the winner of the 2015 Gibney Dance Social Action Award and the 2019 Janet Arnold Award from the Society of Antiquaries of London. Her work has been heralded in publications such as the New York Times (“captivating”) and Los Angeles Times (“moves with the clockwork deliberation of a practiced Japanese Butoh artist”) to name a few. Film projects include a starring role alongside actors James Franco and Winona Ryder in the feature film by director Jay Anania, ‘The Letter” (2012-Lionsgate).

In recent years, she has been commissioned by triple Grammy Award-winning artists Esperanza Spalding, Skrillex, and David J. (Bauhaus). She is the author of the critically-acclaimed book: Butoh: Cradling Empty Space, which explores the intersection of Butoh and neuroscience. She pioneered the first neuroscientific study of Butoh (“The Slowest Wave”). She is also featured on BBC’s podcast Deeply Human with host Dessa (episode 2 of 12: Why We Dance). https://www.vangeline.com

TIRESIAS is a hybrid writer, director, composer, performer, puppeteer, curator, producer, mythmaker, shapeshifter, drag-thing, songbird, ritualist and oracle based in Brooklyn. Recently called “a rara avis of experimental theatre” by The New Yorker and “one of the most enchanting performers in New York City” by The Brooklyn Rail, their work explores queer ecologies, weird mythologies, and speculative futures.

Tiresias has developed more than 20 original theatre productions on 3 continents, and presented performances at venues such as Joe’s Pub, MoMA PS1, Ars Nova, the cell theatre, The Brick, HERE Arts, La MaMa E.T.C., Postmasters, Ballhaus Berlin, Agung Rai Museum of Art, Bali Purnati Center for the Arts, IKLECTIK Art Lab, CLF Art Cafe, Ace Hotel New York, The House of Yes, MaHalla Berlin, the Edinburgh Fringe, and The Chocolate Factory. They have received residencies and grants from MacDowell, the Princess Grace Foundation, the Jim Henson Foundation, the Sitka Center for Art & Ecology, Teravana, The Puffin Foundation, The Mercury Store, the cell theatre, the Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute, and Awesome NYC, as well as Luce, Marshall and Fulbright fellowships.

JOHANNA CONSTANTINE is a New York-based DJ and dance artist. In 1992 she formed avant-garde drag theatre troupe, Black Lips Performance Cult, with musician and artist Anohni. As well as performing in the Future Feminism collective, Constantine has collaborated on Tate installations with filmmaker Charles Atlas and projects with sound artist William Basinski. Constantine infiltrates both the art world and New York club scene with equal force. www.instagram.com/johanna_constantine

FASHION is an Asian American transsexual diva, designer, artist, and DJ based in NYC and sometimes Berlin. She would describe her musical style as an eclectic digital fusion: often combining the yin of trance (feminine, passive, chaos) and the yang of techno (masculine, active, order). Fashion is influenced heavily by her international identity, digital millennial upbringing, and the burgeoning cultural hub of New York which you can hear in her undefinable yet global sound.

VILE is a Colombian DJ and producer living in NYC. Hailing from the city of Eternal Spring (Medellin), Vile has an insatiable passion for innovation, crafting a sonic experience that captivates and challenges in equal measure. Drawing inspiration from subterranean worlds, Vile blends genres with a joyful command of rhythmic grooves, industrial sounds, and dark melodies. Always pushing boundaries, Vile weaves sonic tapestries between dimensions. www.instagram.com/tightcorsetloosemorals

JARRETT KEY lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. An MFA graduate from RISD Painting, Key was named one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 for Art and Style in 2020. Excavating lost stories and the oral histories that defined their upbringing in rural Alabama, Key’s work seeks to criticize those historical conditions that are the seeds of contemporary issues in their life, while creating spaces that celebrate beauty, joy, and survival. Key has been featured in exhibitions and residencies at 1969 Gallery, Fierman Gallery, the RISD Museum, La MaMa Galleria, The Columbus Museum, Gallery 67, Swiss House/MGLC, Galerija Kresija, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, New York University Tisch School of the Arts, Caelum Gallery, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Outlet Fine Art, Former Pfizer Pharmaceutical Factory, Secret Dungeon, La Maison D’Art, Shanghai Theater Academy, and East Meet West Gallery, among others. Key’s work is included in the permanent collections of the The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection, the Columbus Museum, Brown University, RISD Special Collection, the Schomburg Center, the Museum of Modern Art Library, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art Library, among other institutions. www.jarrettkey.com

MIZUHO KAPPA is a multidisciplinary Artist, Choreographer, and Entomologist. Her choreographic works have been presented at The Shed, Kennedy Center, the Brick, The Gene Frankel Theatre, KnJ Theater and many more. Currently she has been an associate artistic director of dance theater company “Project TAG”, also danced with Peridance Contemporary Dance Company, Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks among other companies. She starred in the dance film “Sole”, which premiered at Lincoln Center this year. mizuhokappa.com

GAGE SPEX grew up in Western Massachusetts, where, at a young age, they fell in love with fashion through older movies, like those of Judy Garland. Gage later moved to San Francisco to attend art school, eventually settling in NYC. Gage became heavily involved with the nightlife scene, opening venues like Dreamhouse and Spectrum. Gage also describes coming to terms with the fluidity of her gender, dealing with safety in the queer party scene, and his move away from venue-centered parties. www.instagram.com/gagespex

AEON ANDREAS is a director, choreographer, writer, and performer based in Brooklyn. He has spent fifteen years in experimental theater and nightlife and has built a following as a drag performer named God Complex. Aeon creates joyful, wild, maximalist, hyper-theatricalized events that blend drag, theater, dance, installation art, and fabulous parties. All of Aeon’s performances + events center the queer experience and are based upon detailed world building. www.instagram.com/g0d.c0mplex

KENNIE ZHOU is a NY-based, Chinese producer, director, and multimedia artist. Kennie produces and creates highly stylized work, using CGI, AI, and physical production. Graduated with honors from NYU Tisch, Kennie has produced and directed projects with 88Rising, Bytedance, Mute Records, etc., featured by the New York Times, CNBC, iD, Vice, Hyperbeast, Nowness, The Rolling Stones, The Fader, Pitchfork, etc. kenniezhou.com

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. For more info, visit: www.vangeline.com 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

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