Immersive and intensive training in the fundamentals of butoh (舞踏).
While this workshop is suitable for those new to butoh, it is designed for performing artists with an ongoing professional or pre-professional practice. Previous students are encouraged to return.
Corin is seeking to introduce this work to like-minded performing artists and continue building an ensemble to devise and choreograph with in the near future.
Corin Wiggins Butoh (舞踏) Bio
Among other theatrical disciplines, Corin Wiggins (they/he/she) is a professional butoh (舞踏) dancer and choreographer. Alongside their own productions, they are a dancer in Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, an internationally touring butoh performance ensemble, and work closely with Iván and his butoh mentor Joan Laage, herself a student of Yoko Ashikawa. Corin has trained butoh with multiple surviving company members of butoh’s chief architect Tatsumi Hijikata, including Saga Kobayashi, Moe Yamamoto, Hiroko Tamano, and Dairakudakan Ensemble Members Yuko Kobayashi and Emiko Agatsuma. Corin has also trained underneath students of Kazuo Ohno’s lineage, including Akira Kasai, Yumiko Yoshioka, Ken Mai, and more.
Corin holds a B.F.A. in Physical Theatre via a joint program between Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina and the Accademia dell'Arte in Arezzo, Italy. Both their ensemble work and solo work is rooted in butoh and they are credited as having performed the first professional butoh performance in South Carolina history, their home state. Corin will be performing butoh extensively in 2026, including a three city tour of Japan at the end of the year. They have recently taken up residence in Los Angeles.
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