Transformation Workshop
RenGyoSoh offers occasional workshops on the theme of transformation led by Yokko (she/he/they), who has been creating this workshop since 2016. It was originated inspired by Butoh and Ritual Movement, which was the seed. Yokko has been evolving this workshop past years synthesizing all of their other practices, and offering this workshop to cultivate, to develop, and to transform our beings, in other words, to bloom our full potentials in life and any creative circumstance, and beyond.
This is a spiritual transformation workshop through Butoh, ritual, movement studies, and more. Anyone and everyone is welcome to this workshop, no previous butoh training required.
This is a spiritual transformation workshop through Butoh, ritual, movement studies, and more. Anyone and everyone is welcome to this workshop, no previous butoh training required.
UP COMING!
Transformation: Between Earth & Sky;
The world is a playground!
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
1-4pm
at
Grace & St. Paul's Church
123 west 71st street, New York
The world is a playground!
Saturday, May 23rd, 2026
1-4pm
at
Grace & St. Paul's Church
123 west 71st street, New York
This 3-hour Butoh & Movement workshop led by Yokko, is an invitation to listen to the hidden deep truths held within the body and outside of the body. We play with everything and anything exists between earth and sky—within and out, micro and macro. This is a ritual. We let go of things that no longer serve us in this moment of our lives, allowing ourselves to transform not only physically, but energetically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This workshop contains Noguchi Taisoh, Butoh, Ritual movement, and several somatic movement practices. Everyone is welcome. No previous experience needed.
Playing with Shinra-Bansyo / 森羅万象 (million billion of forests spreading between earth and sky, and play with Universal phenomena)
Playing with Shinra-Bansyo / 森羅万象 (million billion of forests spreading between earth and sky, and play with Universal phenomena)
Energy Exchange / Fee
Please choose the rate that best mirrors your current financial flow.
Community: $40
Sustainer: $45
Supporter: $50
Early Bird: $35 (Until 5/16)
NOTE: All fees include the Eventbrite processing fee.
Please choose the rate that best mirrors your current financial flow.
Community: $40
Sustainer: $45
Supporter: $50
Early Bird: $35 (Until 5/16)
NOTE: All fees include the Eventbrite processing fee.
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
Yokko (Yoshiko Usami Sienkiewicz) (she/they/he) is an NY based award-winning interdisciplinary artist and educator from Japan, specializing in Butoh, Movement, Theatre making, Acting, and Therapeutic Yoga. As the Producing Artistic Director of RenGyoSoh, they have spent over a decade synthesizing diverse disciplines into her unique method of performance and holistic health. As a Performer & Choreographer: Yokko is widely known for her acclaimed solo work, Butoh Medea, which received "Best One-Woman Show," "Best Choreography," and "Best Actress" awards (United Solo NYC, Hollywood Fringe). Since its 2014 premiere at United Solo at Theatre Row in New York, the production has toured internationally—including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Poland, Italy, Turkey, Germany, the Czech Republic, and across the United States—marking its 50th performance in 2025 as its closing performance. Her choreographed work, SHINKA, received Outstanding Premiere Production and Outstanding Choreography at the New York Innovative Theatre Awards (2019). Yokko's film credits include the Student Academy Award-winning Cloud-Kumo, and she has been featured as a Butoh dancer in several music videos, most notably for the Grammy-winning band Cage The Elephant. As an Educator & Practitioner: As a teaching artist and Yoga instructor, Yokko is an E-RYT 500 Yoga teacher with specialized certifications in Therapeutic Essential, Healthcare, and Ayurvedic Yoga Therapy, Yoga Nidra, and is a USUI Jikiden Reiki Master Teacher. They frequently develop specialized curriculum for BFA, BA, and MFA acting & directing programs, focusing somatic work, and the intersection of Butoh and acting, and voice. M.F.A. in Acting (The Actors Studio), B.A. in Theatre (UAlbany), ----------------- Currently Yoshiko Usami Sienkiewicz serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor in Movement at Actors Studio Drama School MFA Program, International Performance Ensemble BA Directing & BA Acting at Sand College Performing Arts School at Pace University, and Teaching Artist at The New Group Acting Studio at Long Island University Brooklyn BFA Acting , The Lee Strasberg Theatre Film Television Studio program at NYU BFA Acting. |
Artist Statement
My themes in my work are transformation, life and connection. As a performing artist, a creator and a teacher, I would love to focus on transformation not only physically, but mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. I would like to create a work which comes from deep inside of us; something that awakens us, something like a screaming of our souls, and I embrace the raw and authentic expressions coming from our bodies. No matter who we are, and where we are from - I believe these primal voices have the vibrancy that resonate us to connect, and I hope that lead us to understand each other in the deep level. I would love to share my heart to connect with others in the world. I am very intrigued and interested in the relationship between human beings & nature, physical expression & its possibilities, and how our work will reflect the society we live in now. I use our bodies to explore, express, and share our voices. The primal art forms I use are Butoh, Theatre and visual arts, and I am open to collaborate with any other arts forms existing. Butoh awakens my soul; Butoh guides me to what I am. - Yokko |
Past TRANSFORMATION Workshop
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2026
May 23rd Between Earth & Sky; The world is a playground! 2025 August 23rd:Between Earth & Sky; The world is a playground! May 24th: Between Earth & Sky; The world is a playground! 2024 Butoh & Movement for Performing Artist (5 days intensive) Turin, Italy 2023 Transformation; listening to your body 2020-2021 Cleansing 2020; Transforming to 2021 (Online) Dec.22 Cleansing & Finding a seed of own flower Jan.9-10 Letting go and planting the seed of a flower 2020 Aug. 8-9, Summer Workshop (ONLINE) 2019 Nov. 16 Fall Workshop (NYC) July 27th, Summer Workshop (NYC) Feb. 1-2 Winter Workshop (NYC) 2018 Aug. 10-12. Summer Infinite Possibilities; Transformation April. 27 UNFIX NYC Creating Your Path; Transformation March 8-10, Winter Finding Your Path; Transformation 2017 Oct. 19-21 Fall 3days 10 hours Memories in Body; Transformation Aug. 3-5 Summer 3 days 10 hours Finding Roots; Transformation Jan. 20-21 Winter Let WAVE Us! Before Birth; Between Life & Death 2016 Fall Transformation: A light in the darkness Spring Transformation: Be The Change Winter Transformation: Beyond sky; beneath Earth |
Do what you believe,
Believe what you do; And, Surrender To Unknown path; No fear Dark to the light, We emerge from the darkness, And, We will be guided To the light. We surrender- To the creation. -Yokko |
