Split/Bill: A Night of Movement and Connection

Join us for an intense evening of Butoh, Movement and Connection.

New York-based CHIMAERA is continuing its '26 tour, bringing its eponymous debut Butoh work to RVA. Movement duo Alex & Kalena bring their work "Coniunctio" home to Virginia for the first time following its NYC premiere.

CHIMAERA (NYC): CHIMAERA is a Butoh, sound, and art collaborative duo Oscar Suh-Rodriguez and Eilish Henderson. Their mutual passion for Butoh, poetry, music, and sound has brought about their collaborative auteur philosophy: music, choreography, costuming–miniature landscapes created jointly. Their eponymous debut collaboration CHIMAERA was created over a nine month period and serves as a culmination of their experiences and discoveries. The work is as much composition as it is transcription, putting on display their corporeal journal during this early period of collaboration.

Alex/Kalena (VA): Drawn together by a soul level knowing that defies explanation, Alex Shanahan and Kalena Sills coalesce into a singular presence that cannot be reduced to words. Their partnership is held by a joint inquiry into what it means to meet and be met, their work moving fluidly through disciplines, expressions, and modes of existence as it moves through form. Moving within states of touch and presence, they sift through the fragments of what it means to be in and of this world, within a total sum of one. Coniunctio is a work at the edge of emergence. Fragments of a singular memory remembering itself inside the softening of thresholds, a piece inhabited by experience as it negotiates form.

Doors at 7:30pm, Show at 8PM