Performance
BUTOHOUT! 2021 New Ab/Normal
2025
2024
JAPANESQUE NIGHT
ジャパネスク・ナイト！
Amazing dancers from TENRI University from Japan are coming next week to Melbourne, so we are organsing a night event, bit of Japan, with contemporary dance, music, tea and of course Butoh!
At IZAKAYA BY TAMURA田村笑店
343 Smith St, Fitzroy
22 September 2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
ButohOUT! 2020 - Primal Colour
Celebrating its third year, ButohOUT! 2020 offers five workshops and two performance seasons exploring the artistic theme of ‘Primal Colour.’ In earlier expressions of Butoh, dancers typically wore white body paint, believed to 'erase' the performers excessive and artificial layers to ‘de-identify’ them.Through stripping back layers of conditioning, ButohOUT!2020 will explore the essence and source of emotion through colour, utilising metaphorical expressions.
[Season cancelled due to Covid-19]
2019
ButohOUT! 2019 - "Forbidden Laughter"
Co-produced by Japanese-Australian artists Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi, ButohOUT! 2019 will challenge the commonly held conception of Butoh as dark and grotesque and ask:
“Can the audience laugh at Butoh?”,
“Can we do comedy in Butoh?”
Feb 2019 at Abbotsford Convent
Melbourne Australia
2018
ButohOUT! Festival 2018 - "Body~Our Closest Nature"
The focus for the 2018 festival was ‘body-specific’. Over two months, ButohOUT! delivered public workshops, performances and a forum to explore and discuss what Australian Butoh aesthetics are, by offering a new, challenging and potentially confronting experience for participants and the audience. Through the two months of intensive workshops facilitated by Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap, we generated new ensemble and solo works with the participants, that were performed at indoor and outdoor venues at Abbotsford Convent.
April 2018 at Abbotsford Convent
Melbourne Australia
2017
Evocation of Butoh 2017 - "What is Butoh in Australia?"
In 2017, the first Butoh Festival Evocation of Butoh, examined the simple yet profound question, “what ‘darkness' is in our post-modern, materialistic, politically-driven society, particularly in a multicultural society, such as Melbourne”. The darkness can be interpreted as 'abandoned', 'invisible', 'institutionalised' or a 'shadowed' existence or it can refer metaphorically to our spiritual sphere.
March 2017 at LaMama Courthoutse
Melbourne Australia