BUTOH RITUAL MEXICANO Dance Center
Artistic Director: Diego Piñón
www.diegopinon.com


Diego Piñón: Curriculum vitae: 1996-2007

2007:
September
Open workshop, advanced workshop, Performance: “Pilgrimage”
Chamber Theatre, Odd Fellow’s Building; Good Shepard Center. Seattle, WA.

August
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico
Performance with American Students

July
Maser class, intensive workshop.  Puffin Room Arts Center, New York, NY

June
Open workshop for Mexican Students, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico
Final Presentation of Anzar, Guadalajara University Dance Company

May
International workshop; Site Specific performances by Mariposa Project (U.S. Student Group):  “Spirits in Transit”
Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

April
Open workshop for Mexican Students, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico
Workshop series with Compania de Teatro de la Universidad de Guadalajara

March
Master class, advanced workshop.  Puffin Room Arts Center, New York, NY
Commission to develop full-length work with Ciertos Habitantes (monthly workshops in process at Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico)

February
Open workshop for Mexican Students, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico
Being work with Anzar, Guadalajara University Dance Company

2006:
September
Intensive workshop, artist’s talk, Seattle, WA
Performance: “Ekua Itsi: Behind the Mirror,” Portland, OR

August
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

May
Intensive workshop with Vangeline Theatre, New York City, NY

April
Intensive workshop, Arcata, CA

March
Intensive workshop, artist’s talk, discussion panel, Chicago, IL
Performance: “Ekua Itsi: Behind the Mirror” (US Premiere),
Chicago Cultural Center

2005:
December
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

November
Intensive workshop at Battery Dance, New York City, NY
Intensive workshop at The Spareroom, Chicago, IL

August
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

May
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico


2004:
April
Master Class, University of California, San Diego, CA
Intensive workshop, Imperial Beach, CA
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

March
Master Class, Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC
Performance, Ito, Asheville, NC
Intensive workshop, Asheville, NC
Performance, Ito, SDSU, San Diego, CA

2003:
December
Intensive workshop, “Works in Progress” Butoh Ritual Mexico Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Michoacan

November
Intensive workshop, Chicago, IL.
Intensive workshop, San Francisco, CA

October
Performances, Dumui-Ito, Mexico City
Performance (Premiere), Spirits on Transit, Mexican Butoh Students, Arts Mexican Cultural Foundation, Mexico

August
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

June
Performance, Ito, Searching the Infinite, International Market of Art, Mexico City,
Performance, Ito, Festival Puerta de las Americas, Mexico.

May
Intensive workshop, Lasqueti Island, Canada

April
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

March
Performance (Premiere), Ito, Michoacan, Paricutin
Intensive workshop, Imperial Beach, CA

January
Intensive workshop, Prescott, AZ

2002-2003
Fellowship from Mexican Government to set a piece for Mexican Students.

2002:
December
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

October
Intensive workshop, Salt Lake City, UT

September
Intensive workshop, San Diego, CA

August
Intensive workshop, Santa Fe, NM

July
Intensive workshop, Montreal, Canada

June
Intensive workshop, Grand Rapids, MI

May
Intensive workshop, Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Tlalpujahua, Mexico

April
Intensive workshop, San Diego, CA
Intensive workshop, Vancouver, Canada
Intensive workshop, Salt Lake, UT

March
Intensive workshop, New York City, NY

2001:
December
Opening of the Butoh Ritual Mexicano Dance Center, Michoacan, Mexico
Student Performance, premier of Omphalos, San Diego State University, San Diego CA
Intensive workshop, San Diego CA
Intensive workshop, National Center for the Arts, Mexico City

November
Performances and workshop, Vancouver International Dance Festival, Vancouver, BC
Performances, Florida/Brazil Festival, Miami FL

October
Performance and classes, University of California at Riverside, Riverside CA
Intensive workshop, Red Lotus Center, Salt Lake City UT
Intensive workshop, San Diego CA

September
Intensive workshop for professional dancers, Quebec Dancers Association, Montreal, Quebec
Intensive workshop, Mexico City, Mexico

August
Performance / workshops, San Francisco Butoh Festival, San Francisco CA

July
Performance and workshops, Seattle WA
Intensive Workshop, San Diego CA

June
Intensive workshop within natural environment, Toscana, Italy
Intensive workshop, Munich, Germany

May
Performances, premier of Broken Nostalgy, City Heights Performance Complex, San Diego CA
Intensive workshop, San Diego CA
Intensive workshop, Salt Lake City UT

January - April
Butoh retreat in Mexico

Festivals and Projects:
San Francisco Butoh Festival 1998 and 2000
Wurzburg Dance Festival 1999
Nuremburg Project with German dancers, Germany 1997-2000
Research Project 2000 with Kazuo Ohno and Yoshito Ohno, Yokohama, Japan
Summer Intensive workshop: Jean Isaacs’ San Diego Dance Theater 1999
Performance/Training Project with McCaleb Dancers 2000

Performances and workshops: Europe
Paris and Nantes, France 1997-1999
Madrid and Bilbao, Spain 1997-1999
Berlin, Nuremburg, Munich, Furth and Haibon, Germany 1996-2000

Performances and workshops: United States
Manhattan and Brooklyn, NY 1998-2000
Sedona, Prescott and Jerome, Arizona 1997-2000
Santa Fe and Taos New Mexico 1998-2000
San Diego State University 2000
San Francisco CA 1996-2000
University of California at San Diego 1999

Performances and workshops: Mexico
Universidad Nacional de Mexico 1996-1997
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes 1996-1997
Festivales del Norte: CECUT Tijuana, Mexicali, Hermosillo, Culiacan 2000
Universidades y Casas de la Cultura: Tijuana, Morelia, Tlaxcala and Puebla 1996-2000