March 6, 2027
time/life/beauty
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
March 16, 2026
asymm (work-in-progress showing)
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
March 6-7, 2026
time/life/beauty
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
January 26-30, 2026
time/life/beauty (tech residency and world premiere)
Duke Arts, Duke University, Durham, NC
January 22-24, 2026
time/life/beauty (production residency)
Thalian Hall, Wilmington, NC
November 2, 2025
time/life/beauty (work-in-progress)
Ars Nova Workshop at Solar Myth, Philadelphia, PA
September 7-12, 2025
time/life/beauty (development residency)
Texas Performing Arts, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX
July 7, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto Tribute Concert with DJ Spooky and Rubin Kodheli
Japan Fest, Levitt Pavilion Denver, Denver, CO
March 1, 2024
Motion State Arts Dance Festival
Providence, RI
January 17, 2024
Ryuichi Sakamoto Tribute Concert
Winter JazzFest, Roulette Intermedium, New York, NY
January 2023
Performance residency, National Center for Choreography-Akron, OH – Garden of the Wilis
October 2022
Performance residency, Jacob’s Pillow, Becket, MA – Garden of the Wilis
Free Showing: Saturday, October 29
September 22, 2022
An Empty Room: Book Release and Performative Lecture
Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University
Free Event: https://www.wesleyan.edu/cfa/events/2022/09-2022/09222022-michael-sakamoto.html
September 12, 2022
Codemakers: Butoh History and Innovation
Scholars and artists panel at University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Free Event with registration: https://fac.umass.edu/Online/Article/ButohPanel
May 1, 2022
Book release – An Empty Room: Imagining Butoh and the Social Body in Crisis (Wesleyan University Press)
April 2022
“If I Was Your Girlfriend: An Embodied Lexicon of Funk and Desire in Academia” – A performative lecture
Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Denver, CO