Thécas Butoh (2016-2021)

Butoh ensemble featuring Texas-born Butoh artists developing work in NYC. (Founding members: Jonathon Kopp, Leah Beltran, Jacquelyn)

“…three movement artists create a Butoh exploration in which they channel the sounds, tastes, light, shadow, and soul of an elemental psychic landscape, a landscape in which they each share deep roots; a place which they call Thécas—and which may or may not correspond to the country called Texas in the mundane world. Each adopting and incarnating one of three alchemical elements—Fire, Wind, and Water—and probing the void of the absent Earth—the three movers bring forth their histories, their traumas, and their encounters with the sublime…”