Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks
Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks is a Thailand native. She is a butoh performer, choreographer, and actor. She has performed both her own choreography and with many great artists at venues throughout Chicago, including Goodman Theatre, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Athenaeum Theatre, MCA, Columbia College Dance Theater (Dance/USA.showcase 2011), Links Hall, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Access Living, and more...A Movement Coach, and a Thai Dialect Coach (King & I at Stage 773 in 2011 for Porchlight Music Theatre). She has debuted her premiere Butoh Dance Theatre production COIN STORY in 2010 at Lincoln Square Theatre. She is currently an ensemble member of Erasing the Distance. Wannapa received her BA. in Journalism and Mass Communication (Radio and Television major) from Thailand.
"...I worked with Wannapa P-Eubanks in Pilotless,and remember being riveted during a rehearsal to witness the depth of transformation that took place from the initiation of her gesture..."
Kate Sheehy,Curator of Method to Madness Festival @ Links Hall,Chicago IL.[Article by Asimina Chremos,Time Out Magazine]
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"...I worked with Wannapa P-Eubanks in Pilotless,and remember being riveted during a rehearsal to witness the depth of transformation that took place from the initiation of her gesture..."
Kate Sheehy,Curator of Method to Madness Festival @ Links Hall,Chicago IL.[Article by Asimina Chremos,Time Out Magazine]
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_"Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foreign to you, feel
that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh's
radical essence is hidden here." Master Tatsumi Hijikata, One of the Butoh Founders
"...between life and death, the universe is disclosed..." by Master Butoh Kazuo Ohno