2025 Dates
6-13 January 2025 Itinerant Residency through nature sites in Spain with butoh+ dance and music,
with site-specific performance at Cayo de los Toros
by Antonio Lorenzo @producciones.oniricas, Steve Schofield, Josh Dyffort @mika_doe, Min Yoon, Alejandro de Antonio & Tania Venafrente
17 January | butoh+ dance | at Neue Zukunft, BERLIN
with Whisker (music) and r a b b i t f o o t (music) by Brainbowl Records
19 January 19:30h | butoh group body {{{ }}}} butoh jam | Studio2, Bethanien, BERLIN
workshop by Min Yoon | butoh / post/butoh / butoh scores and imagery with the group body
+++ butoh jam with live percussions & electronics by Wieland Möller
more monthly+ butoh dance jams, TBA on Telegram: t.me/butohjam
6 February 9pm | Petersburg Art Space, BERLIN
duo improvisation with Roman Stolyar (piano) and Min Yoon (butoh+ dance)
22 February doors at 19:30, show at 20h | Richten25 Gerichtstraße 25, BERLIN / facebook
duo with Nick Dunston (banjo + bass guitar + feedback) and Min Yoon (butoh+ dance)
dancetotheedge.com/duonm
with sets by Andrea Taeggi - analogue synths /// Felix-Florian Tödtloff - electric guitar, synthesizer & field recordings
30 March doors at 19:30 | Petersburg Art Space, BERLIN / facebook
with DANCE at PAS curated by Jessica Gaynor
performance by Min Yoon and Wieland Möller
spaces || divisible, a new work-in-progress /// a surreal experiment of grief breaks | symbols reimagining | borders | boundaries | memories of lines. A post/butoh / ritual performance with percussions and electronics
11 May 7:30pm | Convergent Flesh: a contemporary butoh jam | at Studio2 Bethanien, BERLIN
An experimental score and performance with butoh dancers, contemporary dancers, and musicians - moving forward evolution and fusion of forms /// followed by an open performance jam afterward
with butoh dance: Coco Villareal + Min Yoon + Oryx
contemporary dance: Annukka Hirvonen + Jonas Marx + Roberta Ricci
music: Wieland Möller (percussions/electronics) + Francis Heery (electronics) + Jonathan Nagel (double bass)
14 May 7-10pm (show starts at 7:30pm) | Improvised & Experimental #238 at Hošek Contemporary, BERLIN
MUTABLES - Korhan Erel (electronics, acoustics), Nicolas Wiese (visual layers, projections) & Min Yoon (butoh+ dance)
15 May | solo butoh dance + vocals excerpt for Performing Arts Market, part of IETM Berlin Plenary Meeting | BERLIN
18 May 7-8pm cest | “we didn’t start the fire” | online www ~ free and open
This will be a short film screening with friends from around the world, documenting my dance researching and teaching experiments on the theme of violence. It’s been a long journey and excited to share some reflections coming from the works and why I’ve been doing this. Join me with a drink, online.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83470682938
27-30 May evenings | Links Hall, CHICAGO, IL
post/butoh+butoh workshop with student performance
Butoh Curious Chi / Butoh Chicago
workshop details
31 May 7pm | Solo Butoh+Vocals Performance | Links Hall, CHICAGO, IL | 3111 N Western Ave, Chicago, IL
dancing-being-in-time
Butoh Curious Chi / Butoh Chicago
tickets here
1 June 6pm | bam bam boom ___ | Links Hall, Chicago, IL
community butoh ritual performance
student performance on impulses of violence, choreographed by Min Yoon
10 June 7pm | POLLUX | at Brothers Wash & Dry, EXOSKELETON series. NYC!
@brotherswashanddry 🇺🇸 | 6042 54th Pl, Maspeth, NY 11378
feedback + banjo + Butoh dance duo with Nick Dunston and Min Yoon
3 August | IS THAT ALL THERE IS? - a 90mil festival | 17h-1h | tickets
dancing-being-in-time | post/butoh dance + vocals solo
a weekend long social sculpture and multi-disciplinary programme - possibly 90mil’s last festival <3
Sunday with @dancetotheedge @abdullahminiawyofficial @eve_matin_ @vistarts @moe.elamin @malu___90 @ahmadshikk @collectiveve
5-7 September | “WHAT IS ELEMENTAL” | butoh dance + live music performance and two-day workshop | POLAND
Min Yoon with Wieland Möller
at Biała CHATA , 34-146 Stryszów 189, Poland (outside of Kraków)
More details here + Facebook event
10 September | “relume” | at Potsdamer Platz, 28 | with Tanzmit Festival by Palo y Piedra
butoh dance performance with drum + gong by Wieland Möller
“Relume” is a structured improvisation of butoh dance and gong. Clashings, frictions, and deep simmers in relating, to question the personal, relational, and collective fires.
November | POLLUX | TBA
feedback + banjo + Butoh dance duo with Nick Dunston and Min Yoon
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2024 Dates
theater + dance by temporary collective: Bill Roberts, Gian Mellone, Jessica Gaynor, Nicola Bullock, and Min Yoon
1-29 February 2024 | Artist Residency at ZK/U (Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik)
22 February 2024 7pm doors 7:30pm show | Butoh dance performance at Petersburg Art Space, Berlin
An evening of solo butoh performances by visiting artists Maruska Ronchi, Anna Orkolainen and Min Yoon
with improvisation set with Wieland Möller and guests
16 March 2024 | Solo Butoh dance + vocals at Dim Things Mahlower Straße 7, Berlin
+ Audio/visual performance by Ksenia Bashmakova & Fyodor Stepanov
performing “Conscious Newsroom” | at ZK/U at Siemensstraße 27, Berlin
21 March 2024 8-9pm // Second showing 9:30-10:30p
with butoh dance by Min Yoon, residency showing on how bodies remember the Berlin Wall, researching themes of divisions, reunification, and integration
+ drums/electronics by Wieland Möller + somatic group experiments with the audience
++ Throughout the entire night (7-11pm), there will be other showings by ZK/U fellows
performing “Post/Origins of a Woman” | with GADAG at Oyoun, Berlin
24 March 2024 | Vernissage GADAG | dance performance at 7-7:30pm
butoh dance by Min Yoon and drums / electronics by Wieland Möller
April 21 2024 | GADAG exhibition closing event at Oyoun, Club | Performance 5-5:40pm
Structured improvisation of butoh dance by Min Yoon and music by DAN SU
++ the night follows 6-7pm with “See you in sepia blue”, theater performance from the GADAG-Lab: Anika Baluran Schäfer, Thủy-Tiên Nguyễn, Quang Nguyễn-Xuân, Việt Đức Phạm, with sound art by HIỀN ĐIÊN.
May 19 2024 | at Europäische Akademie der Heilenden Künste
A special project of classical & improvised music with dance
with Johannes Heimrath (electric guitar), Klaus Holsten (flute), Beata Seemann (pianoforte), Wieland Möller (gong|drum), Min Yoon (butoh dance)
May 23 2024 | BRUITAL ECHTZEIT #8 | Petersburg Art Space, Berlin
improvisation duo with Isabel Anders (piano) and Min Yoon (dance)
sharing the night with Edith Steyer & Beat Keller // Antti Virtaranta & Dr. Nexus // Trespassing Room feat. Anna Kaluza
May 24 2024 8pm | untergrün at Lichtblick Kino, Kastanienallee 77 Berlin
with the Mutables: Korhan Erel (electronics) + Nicolas Wiese (analog projections) + Min Yoon (butoh dance)
June 5 2024 doors at 7pm, show at 7:30pm | Hošek Improvised & Experimental #205 | Berlin
with Wieland Möller (drums), Samuel Hall (drums / electronics), and Min Yoon (butoh dance)
June 19 2024 6:30pm, Die Friedensstatue ist ein Mahnmal auf dem Unionsplatz im Stadtteil Moabit | Berlin
a special memorial dance and event commemorating the comfort woman history and healing current and past violence, internationally
with butoh dance by Min Yoon + drums and electronics by Wieland Möller
June 30 2024 3-6pm | BETWEEN THE BONES OF THE LAND // part of 48 Stunden Festival
An outdoors scenic intervention on urban silence with butoh/contemporary dance and music
+ MUSIC + Edith Steyer (saxophone, clarinet) / Wieland Möller (drums) / Asa Maynard (double bass)
++ Contemporary / Butoh ++ dance by Franziska Gerth / Josh Dyffort / Josephine Auffray / Katharina Resch / Lea Fulton / Min Yoon / Nicola Bullock / Rareș Grozea / Yin Cheng-Kokott / Theo Ilichenko (movement and film)
/// Everyone is invited to join for the entire duration of the intervention (3 hours) or join at different moments
at Kunstbrücke am Wildenbrücke (first 1.5 hours), into a walk to a small forest/playground at Spielplatz am Weichselplatz (last 1.5 hours).
August 17 2024 4-9pm | BRUITAL Noise Picnic #XV | Berlin
Bösebrücke near S-Bahn-Bornholmer
solo butoh dance + vocals, with performances by Margaret Unknown, Carl Weidner & Draagrevo, Lucian A. Meister, Stories in Colour
August 18th to September 1st | BIG Butoh Festival | Schloss Bröllin
September 13 Nexus #7 | at Kukumu, Berlin | Doors open 18:30 / Start 19:00
duo with Francis Heery (electronics) + Min Yoon (butoh dance)
// Yurika Saito - visual & Vincent Laju - cello, shakuhachi // Päfgens (Phillip & Jana) - guitar, bass, tape, mixer, electronics
September 23 Monday 7-8pm | at Alexanderplatz in front of Peoples’ Friendship Fountain |
with Tanzmit Festival | free and open to the public
solo dance and vocals “dancing-being-in-time”
with the body as an archive of pain, repetition, change over time
in a structured improvisation of psychosomatic dance with vocals
September 22 3:30-6pm | workshop on stage, ending in a site-specific, group ritual performance | at Alexanderplatz in front of Peoples’ Friendship Fountain |with Tanzmit Festival | donations-based
Social Architecture | on creating group archetypes of moving together,
inspired by nature elements, butoh dance, and conflict studies
September 25 5-7pm | at Alexanderplatz, Berlin
site-specific improvisation by Francis Heery (electronics) + Min Yoon (butoh dance)
layering atmospheric and animalistic inquiries into alchemy and the occult
September 28 | site-specific improvisation | Kultur und Kinderkirche, eichstädt, Berlin
with ingo reulecke (dance) / Katharina Resch (dance) / Min Yoon (dance) / Wieland Möller (drums) / Klaus Janek (double bass)
October 4-6 | performance + nature workshop in Biała Chata, Poland | FB event
FLAMMABLE / fire studies in movement and sound Strike. Burn. Ignite. Express. Release. Resonate.
butoh dance+somatics by Min Yoon + live music by Wieland Möller
October 26 | 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM Djerassi, CALIFORNIA | tickets
site-specific performance, part of Navigations II: Solitude
Project Porous: A body wrecking in and out of inner and outer landscapes, infiltrated by pulsations and wails, surface tensions and frictions.
in/during duo of butoh dance+ by Min Yoon and percussions by Kevin Corcoran,
listening long-durational and now long-distance in high/low waters and grass. moved by…?
October 29 | 6pm | butoh+ solo at APA KABAR hosted by Liminal Bodies | tickets
butoh+ ritual performance structured improvisation of dance and vocalson layers, pollution, and compost… processing with the body, swaths of private and public media, memories, and atrocities… in times of fragmentation loops and consumption at rates of speed and multitasking.
November 1 | 7-9pm | butoh dance+ ritual performance (solo) at Seed Studios, PORTLAND
2127 N Albina Ave. Portland, OR | tickets at door $10-30
There will also be performances by some of my favorite pdx artists, Crystal Quartez (synth) and Jared “ashi” Maurice Dancler (butoh dance).
November 2-3 | butoh dance+ workshop at Seed Studios, PORTLAND
COMPOST MIX REMIX | dancetotheedge.com/CompostMixRemixpdx
November 9 | 7:30pm at Kultur und Kinderkirche, eichstädt, a little outside of Berlin | fb event
A special project of classical & improvised music with dance; celebrating decades of compositions written for distinguished musicians
with the Axis Quartet: Klaus Holsten (flute), Beata Seemann (pianoforte), Wieland Möller (gong|drum), Min Yoon (butoh dance)
~ the concert is free of charge, supported by KuKi
November 16-17 | post/butoh dance + nature somatics workshop | with live music by Wieland Möller | at Park Studio, Berlin
In COMPOST MIX REMIX, we dance imaginative, inspired, expansive, nuanced, surreal, and new senses in our body and the group body with nature metaphors, and to dance and reflect with the cycles of life, with our personal memories and the public media that remind us of grief and beauty in a temporary community space of the workshop. We look for new mixes, release, pleasurable confrontations, and processes.
dancetotheedge.com/CompostMixRemixBerlin
December 3 . 8:30pm | Roman Stolyar + Edith Steyer + Min Yoon | at Kühlspot Club, Berlin
music and dance improvisation with piano by Roman Stolyar, clarinet/ alto saxophone by Edith Steyer, and butoh+ dance by Min Yoon
December 8 | 11am pst & 8pm cest | Emotional Weightlifting for the Times | Movement Explorations of Intensity and Care | tickets $0-10
Online workshop (1.5hrs), Hosted by Fuse theater’s Community Connections program
December 13 | Solo performance intervention of butoh dance and vocals, at 10 YEARS OF TATWERK - POSSIBLE FUTURES, Berlin
with more interventions by Ana Kavalis, Dan Dansen, Enrico L'Abbate, Gabriela Turano, Giorgia Bovo & Carley Marholin, Ludomir Franczak and Ping-Hsiang Wang & Yi-Wei Tien
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2023 Dates
1 January - 30 June 2023 | Dancing Being in Time | Solo Research Grant with Dachverband Tanz Deutschland, Die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Neu Start Kultur
1 January - 31 Dec 2023 | dancingwithviolence.com - available for free online
a participatory audio dance piece about the transformation of somatic memories of violence of an anonymous one
Artistic Direction, Dance Research, and Words by Min Yoon / Music, Composition and Sonic Landscapes by Wieland Möller // Words and Production by Rodrigo Zorzanelli // Movement Research by Nicola Bullock // Dramaturgical Advice: Jan Maihorn (sound / theater), Jessica Gaynor (dance / choreography), Tom Foskett-Barnes (sound / theater)
Performances
14 January 2023 | eventually x Relume at Dock11, Berlin | tickets
Jonathan Nagel feat. Susanna Ylikoski x Min Yoon x Wieland Möller
6 April 2023 | solo improvisation at Trixxter, Oberbaumstraße 11, 10997 Berlin | 20:00 doors | 20:30 1st performance (on time)
part of brœk series curated by Bilwa Costa
other artists of the evening: Jiajing Zhang, Natálie Pleváková (Prague), aemlx, Sage Thrashers, Days Like Television
13 April 2023 | Organized Chaos at Gneisenaustraße 64, Berlin | 19h | tickets (almost sold out)
a multidisciplinary performance of raw theater and dance by temporary collective: Bill Roberts, Gian Mellone, Jessica Gaynor, Nicola Bullock, Lainey Malloy, and Min Yoon
22 April 2023 | New works-in-progress solo butoh by Min Yoon and Butoh-Pan group | Backsteinboot, Berlin
Butoh-Pan is by Maruska Ronchi (Italy), Luiza de Cnop (Brasil), Franziska Gerth (Germany) and Ilaria Vergani (Italy)
26 April 2023 | Improvised & Experimental #162 at Hosek Contemporary, Berlin | doors at 19:00 | performance at 19:30
Trio Performance with Wieland Möller on Percussions, Germán Gabriel Garcia on Trumpets, and Min Yoon with Butoh Dance
fb event
13 May 2023 | Social Cooling Choreographic Research Residency with Hen/i | Akademie für Theater und Digitalität, Dortmund
9 June 2023 20h | Improvised performance at Kühlspot Social Club, Berlin
Min Yoon (Butoh-Dance) Wolfgang Schwabe (Qin) Jung-Jae Kim (Saxophone) Lan Hungh (Percussion) Shiomi Kawaguchi (Shamisen, Effects) Fumio Okura (Violin, Organization) Isabel Anders (Piano, Organization)
23 June 2023 19-22h | in cryses: dancing with strangers | 48 Stunden Neukölln Festival: Play(ground) | tinyurl.com/incrysis
at itz Berlin Interkulturelles Theaterzentrum: Schudomastraße 32 12 055 Berlin
A durational three hours participatory performance / experience. Please join for the whole evening or at the beginning of each hour/crisis.
19-20h - Crisis 1 // 20-21h - Crisis 2 // 21-22h - Crisis 3
with artists: Joséphine Auffray (dance) / Katharina Resch (dance) / Wieland Möller (percussions) / Eric Maltz (synthesizer) / Edith Steyer (saxophone|clarinet) / Min Yoon (concept|text|dance)
26 August 2023 19-22h | butoh solo at Kabaraoke Charity Gala | fortuna wetten, Karl marx str. 127 Berlin
presented by Tchivett, the house of Pommegrenhearts and Pina Brutal productions
on stage with Ugo Rex @hugo.x.tibirica_ ; Danilo Andres @daniloandrestrauko ; Min Yoon @dancetotheedge
24 September 2023 13-17h | dancing-being-in-time | EDEN Studios, Berlin
open studio + workshop on archiving impulses and pain in the body
open and free for everyone, supported by distanzsolo
October 22 at 7pm | bloom in FIRE | Headwaters Theater, PORTLAND, Oregon
performance workshop experience exploring the impulses of violence / transformation in individuals, relations, and groups
butoh ritual performance, free for everyone
October 28 7:30pm | LRT: Least Resistance Training | Headwaters Theater, PORTLAND, Oregon
butoh+somatic+voice collaboration with CYANE (vocals, movement) & Min Yoon (butoh dance, movement)
joined by Kate Rafter (film + movement) + Dug Martell (lights)
November 4 7:30pm | Solo butoh performance | SAN FRANCISCO
with solo performances by Min Yoon (butoh dance) & Shoshana Green (butoh dance)
improvisation sets with Phillip Greenlief (saxophone), and Kevin Corcoran (percussions)
19 November | Axis Quartet | European Academy of Healing Arts, KLEIN JASEDOW
Concert of classical & improvised music with dance
with Min Yoon (butoh dance), Klaus Holsten (flute), Beata Seemann (pianoforte), Wieland Möller (gong|drum)