Seattle International Butoh Festival 2026
Friday, November 20 at 8:00 PM
Maureen Fleming: AXIS MUNDI

Maureen Fleming’s critically acclaimed solo AXIS MUNDI uses metaphorical imagery to explore the human search for transcendence in its many forms.

Presented internationally in spaces ranging from a thousand-year-old church in Palermo to a Japanese firehouse during Tokyo’s 1990 Butō Festival, the work returns in a new re-creation for Seattle. AXIS MUNDI offers a poignant study of the female body and its relationship to the universal soul’s journey.

Join us for snacks and a post-show discussion with Maureen Fleming. Meet the artist and hear about her New York farm, the pipeline threatening it, and her work with Butoh pioneers Kazuo Ohno, Yoshito Ohno, and Min Tanaka.