ALTERNATIVE FUTURE
a bold new interdisciplinary work by MS+A exploring humanity's connection to the environment and each other
with choreography and projection art by MS+A founder and director, Mary Sigward, and live music by Lady Zade, audiences will be enveloped in MS+A’s thought-provoking and boundary pushing contemporary dance
October 10-12
Impossible Maps
A new work by C. Asa Call
Dancers: Ellie van Bever, Sara Caplan, Chloe Dylla, Madeleine Gregor, Rainbow Fletcher, Nicole Flores, Maisy Neill, Janet Nguyen, Alana O Rogers and guest Devin Muñoz
Collaborating Artist: Julie Alexander
Impossible Maps is a full-evening dance work that journeys through grief, transformation, and the ways we learn to carry the dead with us. This visceral performance navigates the high seas of loss, teeters on the cliff edge between horror and awe, and attempts to chart the unknowable: the terrain of the dead.
Along the way, we pass through ancient hominid migration patterns, shipwrecks, swarming bees, lightning storms, and shifting sand dunes. Grief compels us to pause and look closely—at human history and mortality, at nature’s cyclical and dangerous ferocity, and at the indelible marks left by relationships forged and altered by loss.
In a world that disregards the absurdity experienced by those who are grieving, we turn to ancestors, to ritual, to the mythical figure of the Death Mother. We descend into the depths to follow the dead, imagine their many afterlives, and attempt communion with them. We trace their stops, stutters, and shifts within us—reshaping how we understand them, and who we’re called to become in their absence.
October 17th & 18th
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL BUTOH FESTIVAL 2025
November 14-16, 20-23, 2025
YAW Theater,
6520 5th Ave S, Seattle 98108
Workshops & performances by
Atsushi Takenouchi (Japan)
Natalia Cuellar (Chile)
María Belén Espinosa Peña (Chile)
DAIPANbutoh Collective members