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Butohout ButohOUT! Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh has always been associated with the marginalised, embracing the abnormal, odd, quirky and the deviant.

The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre artform of Butoh, explores the artistic theme 'New Ab/Normal' during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal? Led by artistic director Yumi Umiumare and the producer Takashi Takiguchi, it offers 5 public workshops including one for children and seniors, a performance-making laboratory, a forum and 2 performance presentations, one at Dancehouse and the other at Abbotsford Convent. One of the first Butoh performances so shocked its Japanese audiences that it was forced to go underground, yet now Butoh is accepted as an innovative and transformative art form. Conversely, what we used to think as ‘normal’ is no longer so. Instead, the term, 'new normal' exists, which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. We hang onto a semblance of normalcy like a security blanket - but why? With a new creative team of collaborators, Emma Bathgate (Voice), Jacqui Stockdale (Visual Arts), Ai Yamamoto & Dan West (Sound), ButohOUT! 2021 will develop and present two new works, through a series of public workshops and creative
laboratories, to amplify diverse voices in contemporary dance/theatre work. embraces the power of the unknown while creating platforms for participants to explore their authentic expression. With something for everyone, ButohOUT! extends a warm welcome to all from experienced creatives to newcomers, children and families.

07/03/2025
.“Hana” 25. Feb. 2025At St Mary ChurchCREDITButoh artist & choreographerAtsushi Takenouchi Sound composition and musicHi...
25/02/2025

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“Hana”
25. Feb. 2025
At St Mary Church

CREDIT
Butoh artist & choreographer
Atsushi Takenouchi

Sound composition and music
Hiroko Komiya

Production Coordination
Yumi Umiumare & Taka Takiguchi

Lighting
Emma Lockhart-Wilson

Sound consultation & set-up
Dan West

Production Support
Alex Wynne, David Kemp, Helen Smith, Kei Murakami and Pauline Sherlock

Photography
Darren Gill
Photography (Poster): el.fe

💥BUTOHOUT! 2025 WORKSHOP SERIESFinally, we have finalised the series of Butoh workshops coming up in 2025! ButohOUT! 20...
17/12/2024

💥BUTOHOUT! 2025 WORKSHOP SERIES

Finally, we have finalised the series of Butoh workshops coming up in 2025!

ButohOUT! 2025 presents three public workshops from January to March across various locations, culminating in a special performance season as part of the AsiaT**A festival in March 2025. Participants can choose from a variety of options, including weekly and weekend intensives, as well as a special session with international guest artists, Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya.

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1️⃣WEEKLY TRAINING
🗝 THROUGH BUTOH and BEYOND
5 sessions on Tuesdays
21 Jan - 18 Feb 2025
6pm - 9pm
St Mary Anglican Church, Melbourne North
https://www.butohout.com/events/workshop-2025-workshop-1

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2️⃣2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
🃏VISUAL, TEXT AND BODY THROUGH MAGIC OF BUTOH
8 (Sat) & 9 (Sun) Feb
10am - 4:30 pm
Wxyz Studios, Melbourne North
https://www.butohout.com/events/workshop-2025-workshop-2

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3️⃣ 2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP
🤟With BUTOH MASTER ATSUSHI accompany by HIROKO KOMIYA
1 (Sat) & 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
Abbotsford Convent
https://www.butohout.com/events/workshop-2025-workshop-3

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Abbotsford Convent
Asia T**A
City of Yarra
Auspicious Arts Projects
ImPermanence Productions
Yumi Butoh

ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II is supported by Asia T**A, a joint initiative of Arts Centre Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Playking Foundation and the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.



TOMORROW - FREE WORKSHOP/EXPLORATIONAbbotsford Convent
28/10/2024

TOMORROW - FREE WORKSHOP/EXPLORATION
Abbotsford Convent

👉 Do you have any idea for a new creation, but not sure where to start? 😎 You need some new inputs to create a show from...
10/10/2024

👉 Do you have any idea for a new creation, but not sure where to start?

😎 You need some new inputs to create a show from the established performance maker?

🥳 This 2-day workshop is for you!

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ButohOUT! 2024
Performance Making Workshop - Visible and In-Visible
by Yumi Umiumare

2 & 3 Nov 2024 (2 day workshop)
Convent

As a participant, you will be taken on a journey to explore the visible and invisible aspects of Butoh and performance-making. Yumi Umiumare guides you to explore your own idiosyncratic creative process to ‘actualise’ your original inspiration and ideas.

10 Focused Points:
• Finding Inspiration/Original Excitement: ひらめき
• Collecting Your Ideas/Creative Materials: 収集
• Defining Style and Flow: 流儀
• Poetry/Drama/Abstraction/Story: 物語や詩
• The Moment of Transition: 変容
• Metaphor and Object: 暗喩とオブジェ
• Sequence of Movement/Choreography/Collections of Gestures: 身振り手振り
• Other Elements (e.g., music): その他の助け（音楽など）
• Exploring Own Journey: 自分の旅路
• Creative Gateway and Imagination: 創造性の入り口と想像

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Ticket and more info
https://www.butohout.com/events/workshop-2024-performance-making

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https://www.butohout.com/events/workshop-2024-performance-making

1st 📸 Karen Okuda, from Bankstown Arts Centre
Other 📸 Feifei Liao

ButohOUT! 2023 has been nominated forBest Visual / Digital DesignBy Green Room Award 2024Congratulations to the ButohOUT...
08/04/2024

ButohOUT! 2023 has been nominated for
Best Visual / Digital Design
By Green Room Award 2024

Congratulations to the ButohOUT! Creative/design team – Jacquie, Emma and Yumi, and all ButohOUT! Ensemble aka amazing Melbourne-artists who filled the industrial school convent with amazing ideas, props, sets and consumes wherever they came from – the shed, second-hand shops, street strips or bins!

It is that where the creative power creates something odd, twisted and non-conforming to anything alike. Hope ButohOUT! continues to be a testing and inclusive art pot for anyone who dear to do what your sprit desires to do!

Hope to see you very soon.
ButohOUT!

📷Photo: Vikk Shayen

Here is the excerpt video
https://vimeo.com/918762220

All ButohOUT!, OUT of order sessions sold OUT! and here review is OUT! - Review #2 by the Age"There is always movement ...
17/11/2023

All ButohOUT!, OUT of order sessions sold OUT! and here review is OUT! - Review #2 by the Age

"There is always movement and noise on the periphery, and everything seems to want to happen all at once. It’s true that the second half of Out of Order is, relatively speaking, less chaotic and demands less of the audience. But the centre never holds for long in this anarchic comedy of malfunction, this roll-up of haphazardly costumed odd bods."

This wrap of shows around Melbourne includes Motley Crue and Def Leppard at Marvel Stadium, ButohBar: Out of Order, the return of La Cage aux Folles, and a rhythm-filled collaboration.

All ButohOUT!, OUT of order sessions sold OUT! and here review is OUT! "ButohBAR playfully and artfully explores disorde...
17/11/2023

All ButohOUT!, OUT of order sessions sold OUT! and here review is OUT!

"ButohBAR playfully and artfully explores disorder, disruption, disarray without descending into chaos or nihilism. The performance space is extremely apt and captures the sense of decay, decline and neglect that encompasses the overall design of the show. "

Stage Whispers is a Performing Arts Magazine and Website

BUTOH + SAKE + IZAKAYA FOOD 🍶🍶🍶ButohOUT! 2023 partners with Tamura Sake Bar, specialising in craft sake, authentic Japan...
13/11/2023

BUTOH + SAKE + IZAKAYA FOOD 🍶🍶🍶

ButohOUT! 2023 partners with Tamura Sake Bar, specialising in craft sake, authentic Japanese Izakaya style food. The pop-up Sake bar will open 30 mins before the show starts every day.

Ticket is selling fast!

PREVIEW - Sold out
OPENING - Sold out
Fri 17 - 2 Left
Sat 18 - 10 left
Sun 19 - Available

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