butoh"After graduating from university in Madrid, I entered the world of Butoh by coordinating a tour in Latin America for Bufons theater-dance company. Years later in New York, I saw Sankai Juku at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and participated in Atsushi Takenouchi’s workshops. I also contributed to introduce Butoh to the National Center for the Arts in Mexico." — PV
Madrid Bufons theater-dance company I New York Atsushi Takenouchi I Mexico City National Center for the Arts
“Butoh is a Japanese avant-garde contemporary dance. It lies in its radical embrace of the body as a bridge for memory, transformation, and the unseen. As a filmmaker, Pedro Valiente connects with its raw silence and power. It taught him to trust gesture, to find meaning in breath and slowness.”
Listening to Silence
"Pedro Valiente’s connection to Butoh reveals itself as a form shaping his vision as a filmmaker and visual artist. Drawn to its meditative intensity, his works breathe with a force inspired by this Japanese art form —looking at new modes of presence where storytelling is reimagined in times of digital cultures.
MADRID | His early training was marked by an encounter with the legacy of Kazuo Ōhno, whose spirit of poetic embodiment left an imprint on his creative language. Collaborating with Bufons theater-dance company on tour in Latin America, he learned to embrace unseen layers of human emotion. NEW YORK | Later on, he trained with Atsushi Takenouchi, who works on elemental energies of Butoh through organic, site-specific performance —immersed in a vibrant arts scene where practice and creative research intertwined. MEXICO CITY | This groundwork continued in Flying Fish Over Mexico, a performance mixing film and poetry into an epic visual journey. It pioneered both Butoh at the National Center for the Arts (CNA), and a collaboration with Tecnológico de Monterrey." Site I EXTERNAL REVIEW
Photo: PV I © Kazuo Ōhno Dance Studio
FFOM I Tilmun Teatro I Early Work I Training