Evocation of Butoh

EVOCATION OF BUTOH
PERFORMANCE,FORUM and WORKSHOP
9-20 MARCH 2017

Evocation of Butoh is a mini festival with the aim of activating artistic and cultural exchange between international artists and local arts communities in Melbourne through the performance art of Butoh. This genre of dance/theatre was started in the late 50’s in Japan in the aftermath of WWII. Butoh, originally called the ‘Dance of Darkness’, finds expression through dance and movement for the visible and invisible states of living. This is a unique opportunity for audiences in Melbourne to experience sublime works by local and international practitioners: a diaspora of artists who left their countries of origin to extend their practice in contemporary society.Intensive workshops, a public forum and an artists’ talk will also be presented to stimulate discourse around what Butoh is now in Australia.

PERFORMANCE& FORUM @ Lamama Courthouse, as a part of Asia TOPA
Program1
9(Thur) and 10(Fri) 7:30pm March 2017
Tony Yap (Malaysia/Australia)
Yumi Umiumare (Japan/ Australia)
Helen Smith (England/ Australia)

Program2
11(Sat) 7:30pm, 12(Sun) 5pm, March 2017
Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Germany)
and pre-show performance by Alana Hoggart, Miguel Camarero

PUBLIC FORUM
What is Butoh now in Australia?
12(Sun) 12-3pm March 2017
Free Admission

Booking and Detail

WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP1
Butoh 3 nights Intensive workshop
by Yumiko Yoshioka
14(Tue), 15(Wed) ,16(Thur) March
6:00pm – 9:00pm@Abbotsford Convent
$250 (Full) & $230 (Concession)

WORKSHOP 2
Residential workshop in Stuart Mill
by Yumiko Yoshioka
facilitated by Yumi Umiumare
17th (Fri) March to 20th (Mon) March
@ Camp Seed
$450 (Full) & $420 (Concession)

Workshop inquiry : info@takashitakiguchi.com

Evocation of Butoh (March 2017) at LaMama Courthouse, Melbourne Australia as a part of Asia TOPA Co-Produced by Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi associated with LaMama and Asia TOPA Video edit by Takeshi Kondo

Tea Break Created and performed by Yumi Umiumare Original Music by Dan West, David Shea and Frédéric Chopin. Combining TEA, BUTOH and PHYSICAL THEATRE,Tea Break is a work in progress for devising a full-length work for next year. The past two years of Yumi's exploration of Japanese tea ceremony in many settings and locations around the world, Yumi has been absorbed by the elements of ritual, and provoked by moments of magic. Like Butoh, through these rituals, the space transforms and interacts with itself and immersive moments appear. Exploring the space between these rituals and daily routine of drinking tea, Yumi shifts into the abstract and experiment with the tea ceremony, moving from the sedate to the dramatic, real to surreal, and playful to macabre, a journey into life and death, evoking the spirit of Butoh. Evocation of Butoh (March 2017) at LaMama Courthouse, Melbourne Australia as a part of Asia TOPA Co-Produced by Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi associated with LaMama and Asia TOPA Video edit by Takeshi Kondo

Evocation of Butoh (March 2017) at LaMama Courthouse, Melbourne Australia as a part of Asia TOPA Co-Produced by Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi associated with LaMama and Asia TOPA Video edit by Takeshi Kondo