January 2026 (date/time/location TBA)
time/life/beauty (official premiere)
Fall 2025 (date/time/location TBA)
time/life/beauty (production residency and showing)
Spring 2025 (date/time TBA)
time/life/beauty (work-in-progress performance)
Mt. Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
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