06/12/2026
Meditations is a solo performance rooted in butoh (舞踏), a spiritual, intense, and fully embodied artistic practice which merges and evolves elements of acting, dance, and performance art. Within a setting that emphasizes the communal and ritualistic nature of live performance, the piece will explore a dense array of primordial matters, including the final journey of an elderly grandmother and the psychedelic distension of time.
Intermeshing choreography and improvisation, the performance harkens to both Tatsumi Hijikata’s and Kazuo Ohno’s lineages of butoh. The runtime will be roughly one hour.
Doors 730pm - Performance 8pm
Corin Wiggins Butoh (舞踏) Bio
Among other theatrical disciplines, Corin Wiggins (they/he/she) is a professional butoh dancer and choreographer. They are a principal dancer in Iván-Daniel Espinosa & Company, an internationally touring butoh performance ensemble. They work closely with both Iván and his butoh mentor Joan Laage, herself a student of Yoko Ashikawa. Corin has trained butoh with many of the surviving company members of butoh’s chief architects Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno, including Saga Kobayashi, Hiroko Tamano, Ken Mai, and Dairakudakan Ensemble Member Yuko Kobayashi.
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 devised 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 in the latter half of the year. They have recently taken up residence in Los Angeles.
LOCATION
time + space
953 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA, USA