ButohOUT! 2019 FestivalForbidden Laughter
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Thu 02 May 2019 - Sun 12 May 2019
ButohOUT! 2019 Festival—Forbidden Laughter
Tickets are now on sale for the eagerly-awaited 2019 ButohOUT! Festival—Forbidden Laughter. Thanks to pioneering Japanese-Australian performance artists Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi, Melburnians have the chance to experience this unique and captivating dance form.Incorporating elements of cabaret, Bouffon, burlesque and visual installations, Forbidden Laughter is created by Yumi Umiumare, along with award-winning performer Maude Davey, and the unstoppable force of WEAVE Movement Theatre, devious duo Willow J Conway and Zya Kane, and the Butoh OUT! Ensemble. Australia's love for dance shows no sign of waning and we've demonstrated our eagerness to embrace genres from around the world. We lap up the televised dance shows, from
Dancing With The Stars to
So, You Think You Can Dance. And on any night of the week, we can head to a class and kick up our heels in the style of our choice, whether it's rock-and-roll, Latin, Irish, tap, line dancing, clogging and more. So when you think of imported dance styles, Butoh probably won't spring to mind… and yet this Japanese-born performance medium offers us the chance to immerse ourselves in a fascinating, hitherto unexplored dance form that's as revolutionary and subversive to dance as punk rock was to popular music.Butoh, the so-called Dance of Darkness, emerged out of post-WWII Japan as a rebellious and anti-establishment reaction to the country's social turmoil. Butoh's crude physical gestures and 'natural' movements rejected traditional Japanese aesthetics of refinement and understatement, and eschewed what creators Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo saw as the imitation of Western dance styles. Butoh dancers were commonly covered in white full body paint, near-naked with shaved heads, moving excruciatingly slowly with clawed hands and rolled-up eyes, silently screaming.The first Butoh performance at a Japanese dance festival in 1959—which incorporated a live chicken—shocked audiences and not only saw Hijikata banned from the festival, but established him as a cultural iconoclast.
The performance season runs from 2 to 12 May and will involve workshop participants (including dancers from the renowned WEAVE Movement Theatre) as well as the workshop leaders. Tickets are now on sale through Trybooking and early bookings are advised.For more information on the session times, creative team and ticketing options, please visit www.butohout.com/forbiddenlaughterNow in its third year, ButohOUT! 2019 Forbidden Laughter will challenge the perception of Butoh as dark and grotesque by combining the dancing with elements of cabaret, Bouffon, burlesque, physical theatre and visual installations. The two-month Festival program includes four public workshops held in March and April, two weeks of performances from Thursday 2 May—Sunday 12 May, and discussion groups.ButohOUT! 2019 is conceived and co-produced by Yumi Umiumare and Takashi Takiguchi in partnership with Abbotsford Convent Foundation and supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Arts Access Victoria and WEAVE Movement Theatre.Find out more at www.butohout.com
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