The first Asia butoh festival is here! Initiated and hosted by ACC Fellow for Dance, Sasa Cabalquinto (2022), Asia Butoh Gathering (ABG) is a three-day festival of performances, workshops, film screening, lecture presentations and artists conversations that aims to bring together Butoh artists and practitioners across Asia.

This platform initiative recognizes the powerful legacy of Japanese Butoh while opening space for regional voices where artists can meet each other across borders, share embodied practices, and co-create new meanings from various local contexts. The festival aims to reintroduce Japanese Butoh in the Philippines within an intra-Asian cultural context situating it in dialogue with regional practices, to support the growth of a regional Butoh network that connects diverse cultures, lineages, and generations of artists, and to explore the multiplicity of Butoh as it is reimagined through experimental, interdisciplinary, and context-specific practices. 

Select programs are available for on-site and online participants in our website. For international on-site participants, click on the following LINK