Sheri Brown is a Seattle-based performer who found butoh in Seattle eight years ago, after 11years of theatre and street performance. Butoh satisfied her need to explore and express the place between words and dance inside her connection to her innermost self, the world, and the universe.

She began serious study in San Francisco with Shinichi Momo Komo and has trained with numerous butoh masters since then including Katsura Kan, Diego Pinon, Akira Kasai, Minako Seki, Su-En, Joan Laage, and Jay Hirobashi. With her troupe, the P.A.N., she has presented work in the International Butoh Festival in San Francisco, the Overseas Arts Convention in Korea, and International Mime Festival in Korea (where they won the Dokkebi Award) and toured Japan twice.

The summer of 2007 marked her first solo international tour to Hawaii and Japan in “The Fairy Orb Trip”. Highlights from the last year include her work in San Francisco, where she worked with butoh master Katsura Kan and others he selected for performances at the Asian Art Museum and the Cameraworks Gallery and 2008's summer’s seven-city southern Japan tour (her fourth tour there, this time with partial funding by the Japanese government). This past summer she decided to tour the Northwest with her Japanese musician collaborator, Marron of dubMarronics, and local collaborator Douglas Ridings.

Highlights from this tour include Moore Inside Out at the historic Moore Theatre and the Portland's Butoh Festival at the Portland Center for Performing Arts. Current projects include solo work to be debuted at the Tashiro Kaplan Artist Loft's 5th Anniversary Open House, organizing DAIPAN Butoh Collective's fall workshop series with teachers Helen Thorsen, Haruko Nishimura (Degenerate Art Ensemble), Diana Garcia-Snyder, and Mizu Desierto, and Joan Laage's Operation Theatre project to debut December 3, 4, 5.