Coco Villareal is a Mexico City-born performer, director and Butoh artist. Trained in opera, theatre and Butoh, he has worked professionally across music, contemporary dance and theatre since his youth. His practice brings together Butoh, martial arts, voice, meditation and somatic disciplines, approaching performance as an embodied ritual and a space for transformation. He is associated with IX-Butoh and has collaborated internationally with performers and interdisciplinary artists.