Join Tacoma-based international artist Anida Yoeu Ali as she transforms into The Red Chador for a performance alongside Seattle-based Butoh dance collective DAIPANbutoh. Ali is a Khmer-Muslim American whose work uses religious aesthetics to provoke ideas of otherness. The Red Chador emerged from a period of intense Islamophobia and misogyny and has been performed in 16 cities across seven countries since 2015.

Butoh is an avant-garde art form born in a 1950s post-war Japan and is now practiced around the world. Articulated with breath, movement, and embodied ritual, Butoh confronts and transcends lived experiences through primordial dance theater. Ali herself has been deeply influenced by Butoh as the practice offered her the ability to hone her presence and externalize her internal landscape. For this Butoh activation, several chador garments become portals of hybrid skins for The Red Chador and her rainbow brigade of chadoras to transmute, contort, disrupt, and dance their way into existence.

The performance will take place in the Seattle Asian Art Museum's Fuller Garden Court and galleries. It is included with museum admission.