Odd Hours - 奇妙な時刻
Premiere Season @ Abbotsford Convent Melbourne
19-23 May 2022
WHEN
May 2021
19 (Wed) 7:30pm | Preview
20 (Thu) 7:30pm
21 (Fri) 7:30pm
22 (Sat) 8:00pm
23 (Sun) 5:00pm
DURATION
70 mins
WHERE
Abbotsford Convent
Industrial School
Melbourne
COST
Preview (19th): $15
COST
Full Price: $30
Concession: $25
Group Ticket: $100 for 5 tickets
(only applies to the same session)
ACCESSIBILITY & COMPANION CARD HOLDER
Abbotsford Covent - Industrial School is a fully accessible venue, there is a gentle ramp to enter the building and the wheelchair accessible toilets are available. Should you have any questions, please contact at butohoutbookings@gmail.com
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Please refer to the detailed Terms and Conditions for cancellations here.
EXCHANGE OF THE TICKET(S)
Tickets are non-refundable, except as required by the Live Performance Australia (LPA) Ticketing Code of Conduct.
Tickets can be exchanged for a different date (where available); exchanges are charged at $5 per transaction. We also accept ticket name changes at no charge.
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Normal celebrates the powerful medium of Butoh, inviting audiences to experience a surreal, absurd and euphoric performance, which brings together a diversity of Melbourne-based, contemporary artists in a post-pandemic time.
Inspired by the 1950’s film, Rashomon, Odd Hours offers a multi-layered visual and psychological labyrinth where a 20-odd heterogeneous bunch of artists perform at the rustic, industrial grounds of the Abbotsford Convent. The Rashomon effect is known as a plot device that involves various characters providing subjective, self-serving, and contradictory versions of the same incident. For this performance, individual notions of ‘abnormality’ are transformed into movements, voice and mask/collage work culminating in a site-specific, illusionary installation work.
Image: Collage elements by Jacqui Stockdale | Graphic design by Monica Benova & Takashi Takiguchi | Photo by Mathew Lynn
“... a nightmare reflection on the strangeness of the times, but it is also, .. an earnest celebration of otherness and abnormality.”
Odd Hours, driven by the anarchic form of Butoh, poses the urgent question: ‘what is normal?’. Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh is often associated with the marginalised, embracing the abnormal, odd, quirky and the deviant. One of the first Butoh performances so shocked its Japanese audiences that it was forced to go underground! Butoh is now widely accepted as an innovative and transformative art form. Conversely, what we used to think as ‘normal’ is no longer so, and the idea of 'what is normal' is changing all the time. We are embracing the term, ‘new normal’, which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. We hang onto a semblance of normalcy like a security blanket - but why?
Embracing the ethos of ButohOUT!, Odd Hours incorporates performers with a range of levels of experience, ages and cultural backgrounds. Led by the creative team of Yumi Umiumare (Butoh), Emma Bathgate (Voice), visual Jacqui Stockdale (Visual Arts) and Dan West (Sound), diverse voices of Melbourne are amplified in this contemporary dance/theatre work.
CREATIVES
Artistic Direction & Choreography Yumi Umiumare
Creative Producer Takashi Takiguchi
Visual Art Jacqui Stockdale
Vocal / Sound Art Emma Bathgate
Sound Design & Operation Dan West
Lighting Design Rachel Lee
PRODUCTION
Stage Management Feifei Liao
Lighting Operation Harrie Hogan
Front of House Co-ordination Kei Murakami
MARKETING | PUBLICATION
Photography Vikk Shayen
Graphic Design Monika Benova, Ramona Estrella, Takashi Takiguchi
Website Development Takashi Takiguchi
Publicist Diana Wolfe Margot Gorski
Video Documentation Takeshi Kondo
CO-CREATORS &
PERFORMERS
ButohOUT! Ensemble 2021
Emma Bathgate
Helen Smith
Yumi Umiumare
ButohOUT! Ensemble
Amanda Bathgate
Carol Keating
David Blom
Dasha
Ebony MonCrief
Em Kimber
Emma Fayelecaun
Feifei Liao
Flynn Tucker
Jessie Ngaio
Kaira hachefa
Katrina Liston (Tri)
Kendra Keller
Kiki Ando
Samantha Helps
Pauline Sherlock
Ramona Estrella
Spira Stojanovik
Tomoko Yamasaki
Takashi Takiguchi
