PAN is an art & performance collaborative team creating dance, theater, installations, and video works. Founded in 1999, this Seattle-based company presents contemporary, integrated works in galleries, museums, theaters, alternative spaces, dance clubs, rock shows, cafes, bars, parks, ‘raves’, site-specific works, street demonstrations, and festivals. The projects are largely inspired by the seminal dance movement of Butoh as well as drawing on sources ranging from Surrealism to Punk. Notable events include presentations at Kyoyuk Munhwa Hoekwan Theater (Seoul, South Korea); Loveless (Tokyo, Japan); K.D. Japon (Nagoya, Japan); Cafe Independants (Kyoto, Japan); San Francisco Butoh Festival; Bellevue Art Museum; Burningman Festival (Black Rock City, NV); in Portland, OR at Disjecta Gallery, Center Space, Medicine Hat Gallery, enterACTIVE Language Arts Festival 2002-5; in Seattle at Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle International Butoh Festival at On The Boards, Experience Music Project, Showbox Theater, CoCA - Center on Contemporary Art, Vital 5 Gallery, Consolidated Works, the Kalakala, VERA Project, and during protests against the WTO in 1999. The ensemble has also supported community-based projects by performing at benefits for the Kalakala Foundation, Fuse Foundation, Home Alive, Good Shepard Center, TASVEER, Secluded Alley Works, Stronghold Collective, Allied Arts, KBCS, and Mumia Abu-Jamal.

PAN is known for presenting multidisciplinary works that are ‘radical’ and experimental in nature – combining elements of performance, ‘happening’, visual art, design, video projections, music / sound / text, and interactivity. The central focus of the group is the human body, and its relationship to architecture, media, and the environment. This emerging ensemble has presented over 30 works as well as producing an annual large-scale, all-ages, multi-media event. Major work includes “Vermillion. Violet”, a full-evening dance/theater work that explores the process of ‘bruising’; through movement, music, and text. “Art Model 01”, an interactive performance installation examining the process of art production by recreating a studio figure drawing session. “PAN-LAB Industries”, a month exhibit of an installation designed as a pharmaceutical company with marketing products, merchandise, and commercials on display. “Crosspollination”, an ongoing film/video and performance project exploring the animal/human connection, and the process of transformation. As a presenting organization, PAN has produced “Butoh-A-Go-Go” at the Fremont UnConventional Center, “Solstice” at Consolidated Works, “Pan-O-Rama” at the Jem Arts Center, and co-produced the 2000 Seattle International Butoh Festival at On The Boards – which invited artists from Tokyo, Sapporo, Stockholm, Toronto, San Francisco, Austin, and the Northwest for 11 days of workshops, performances, and a lecture / demonstration.