Originally a subversive non-art form, passionately expressing ugliness and beauty, the word Kabuki comes from the word ‘Kabuku’ meaning ‘bent’ or ‘out of the ordinary’. This WEEKLY workshop channels anarchic forms of Butoh and preliminary Kabuki to unleash the weird from within.

Originally a subversive non-art form, passionately expressing ugliness and beauty, the word Kabuki comes from the word ‘Kabuku’ meaning ‘bent’ or ‘out of the ordinary’. This WEEKLY workshop channels anarchic forms of Butoh and preliminary Kabuki to unleash the weird from within.

Local Butoh practitioner and researcher Helen Smith will guide the workshop, as well as having special international guests from Japan, Seisaku (one of the last disciples of atsumi Hijikata) and Dai Matsuoka (a member of Sankaijuku) via Zoom, facilitated by Yumi Umiuare.

Exploring ButohOUT! 2022's artistic theme of KaBuKu (bent and out of the ordinary), the participants will be encouraged to expand their limits, embrace the positive sensation of being 'twisted' and 'untwisted' both physically and metaphorically, in order to gain a deeper sense of liberation in our twisted realities.