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Wannapa Pimtong-Eubanks is a *Butoh Artist, choreographer, movement coach, Improviser, and actor.  A Thai native. 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, Old Town School of Folk Music, 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. From 2010-2021, 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. Since then, she has been passionately focusing on exploring the relationship between mental condition, and movement.

Wannapa has taught Butoh workshops such as Butoh workshop for actors at Collaboraction Theatre Company, Halcyon Theatre, Inclusive workshop with MOMENTA, and individuals artists/actors as part of movement coaching. Her recent work including : performing/curating "Into the Garden: An East Meets West Night of Performance and Movement at Elastic Arts in memoriam tribute to King Rama IX of Thailand passing, choreographing/performing as a fairy Godmother in "Elvira" for Colectivo El Pozo Theatre in collaboration with Chicago Latino Theater Alliance - CLATA, and performing in "Trenza De Aqua", for Trenza Corazones in part of Chicago Nights Out, and PERRO- Pilsen Environmental Rights and Reform Organization, 

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 *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. 

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More of her works, please visit URL: http://wannapa12.wix.com/wannapap-eubanks or

https://www.linkedin.com/in/wannapapeubanks

 

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