INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks
"What an engaging performance. Stunning! Intentional! Truthful! You are a wonderful artist." Joel Hall, Founder and Artistic Director of the Joel Hall Dancers & Center [ Dance/USA,2011 attendee]
"...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]
Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks is a *Butoh Artist, choreographer, movement coach, and actor. Her work is also including as a butoh inspired dance performer who creates movement based interactive performances. Her work often stems from a personal experience or a specific memory that grows into a poetic image that she imbues with the memory of the moment.
Wannapa’s venues include Goodman Theatre, Raven Theatre, Chicago Cultural Center, The Athenaeum Theatre, Victory Garden Theatre, MCA, Links Hall, Ruth Page Center for the Arts, Access Living. Elastic Arts, and many more…In 2011, She was selected to be showcasing for Dance/USA showcase 2011 at the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago. Her experience is also including a Thai Dialect Coach (King & I at Stage 773 for Porchlight Music Theatre). Wannapa has been part of Laura Crotte’s theatre group to present the “Day of the Death” show for students in Chicago schools. She was a former Artistic member of Erasing the Distance, a non-profit arts organization based in Chicago that uses the power of performance to disarm stigma, spark dialogue, educate, and promote healing surrounding issues of mental health. Wannapa conceived and produced, "Through My Daughter’s Eyes", as part of the 2016 PopUp Series for Erasing the Distance by collaborating Theater, and Butoh in the work. She has taught Butoh workshops such as Butoh workshop for actors at Collaboraction Theatre Company, Halcyon Theatre, and individuals artists/actors as part of movement coaching. Her recent work including choreographing/movement coaching for Colective El Pozo Theatre, performing in Freedom from Freedom To, and performing for Out of Site Chicago's Open Flow-August,2021.
*Butoh is a form of Japanese dance theatre that encompasses a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement. Following World War II, butoh arose in 1959 through collaborations between its two key founders Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno. Butoh dance informs part of the dance community in Chicago.
More of her works, please visit URL: http://wannapa12.wix.com/wannapap-eubanks or
https://www.linkedin.com/in/wannapapeubanks
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