RESPIRA is a project that consists of Yuka Honda (sonic manipulation), Azumi O E (movement, costume design), and Waldo Walle (lighting, stage design).
Azumi is a dancer whose basic training spans over a decade of Butoh. Butoh is a Japanese avant-garde dance form that emerged in post-World War I! Japan, characterized by slow, controlled movements, extreme physical states, and a focus on exploring the subconscious, taboo, and transformation. Rather than formal technique, it emphasizes internal experience-often using distortion, stillness, or grotesque imagery-to reveal psychological and existential depth. With RESPIRA, we aim to take this now-authentic dance form a step further, incorporating our current feelings, emotions, questions, and desires, and expressing them through movement with light and sound.
They have performed at Big Ears Festival, Women From Space Festival, Drippings, Issue Project Room and Nowadays.
eucademix : audio
azumi O E : butoh, costume
Waldo Walle : lighting
April 19th, 2025 at Issue Project Room, Brooklyn NY