ButohOUT! 2025 #1 Weekly Training—Jan - Feb 2025
ButohOUT! 2025
ButohBAR 番狂わせ
OUT of ORDER II
Weekly Training: Through Butoh and Beyond
This weekly workshop focuses on training the body through various techniques of performance art, including Butoh. A key element of Butoh is imagining the body as an ‘empty vessel’, which is filled and emptied with substances of all kinds then expressed through the body. The body is also the site of transformation between known to unknown, real and surreal, visible to invisible and even from beauty to the grotesque.
Channeling the interdisciplinary nature of Butoh, guest teachers will facilitate three diverse training methods each beginning with a Butoh warm-up: Willow J Conway (Cabaret) and Matt Crosby (Suzuki Method).
Butoh can be seen as an example of an art form that is out of order, and it challenges the norms of conventional performance styles and offers a way to explore new forms of expression and adaptation in the face of uncertain and unexpected challenges.
This workshop is open to all levels of experience and artistic discipline.
FACILITATOR & GUEST TEACHERS
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Born in Japan, Yumi is an established Butoh dancer, choreographer and creator of Butoh Cabaret works. She has been creating her distinctive style of works for over 30 years and her creations are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and engaging with cultural identities with a sense of humor.
Yumi’s works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America and have received several Australian Green Room awards. As a choreographer, Yumi has worked with many socially engaged theatre projects in Australia, including communities of First Nations, refugees and culturally diverse people and also inclusive companies.
She is a recipient of the fellowship from Australian Council (2015-16) and a winner of the Green Room Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award (2017). Yumi is a key figure of the international contemporary Butoh scene and the artistic director of ButohOUT! festival in Melbourne since 2017, teaching and activating local and international Butoh communities. Yumi ‘s recent works focus on Dance, Tea and Spirit. -
Willow is a "mover, shaker & innovator" who has worked as a theatre practitioner in cross-disciplined art forms including acting, burlesque, bouffon, butoh, and performance art along with choreographing, writing and directing film and theatre for over 20 years.
As a performer/actor she has worked in film, TV and with many independent theatre companies as well as being a solo artist of self-devised pieces performed nationally and internationally including Japan, USA, Paris and London.
Her credits include Burlesque Hall of Fame Weekender (Las Vegas), DasSHOKU SHAKE!, White Day Dream, Dirty Pictures, Voodoo Trash Dolls, Measure for Measure, Empire, All of Which Are American Dreams, Elmo and director/creator of The Living Museum of Erotic Women, and in 2016 Willow was crowned Miss Burlesque Australia!
During the 3hour workshops you will explore burlesque both, neo, classical and unique looking at the comical and contemporary elements of burlesque, along with the sensual and seductive Art of Tease.
Prepare to bump n grind your butt off in the most out of order way possible!
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Matthew Crosby has worked in all areas of the performing arts, a NIDA graduate who has taught theatre for many years.
He has performed on mainstages in Australian theatre festivals as well as Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Thessaloniki. Crosby was director of Actor’s Furniture Group 1996-2000, a member of the DasShoku butoh/cabaret collaboration with Yumi Umiumare and Ben Rogan 1999-2014 and is facilitator of The Thursday Group, which conducts practice and performance development.
He is a teacher in theatre, conducting annual workshops and ongoing Monday drop-ins investigating Suzuki Training, Grotowski and other variations.
ButohOUT! 2025
Workshop Listing
WS #1
Weekly Training: Through Butoh & Beyond
21 Jan - 18 Feb
6-9pm
@ St Mary Anglican Church Hall
$140 for all sessions
$30 for drop in
WS #2
2-Day Weekend: Visual, Text and Body through Magic of Butoh
8 (Sat) and 9 (Sun) Feb
10am - 4:30 pm
@ LGI studio, North Melbourne
$300/$280
WS #3
2-Day Weekend: Butoh Master Atushi Takenouchi accompany by Hiroko Komiya
1 (Sat) and 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
@Industrial School, Abbotsford Convent
$330/$300
Combo Discount
All in one - WS#1, 2 & 3 / $700
2 WS-Type 1 - WS1 & 2 / $400
2 WS-Type 2 - WS1 & 3 / $420
2 WS-Type 3 - WS2 & 3 / $570
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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CONTACT
butohout@gmail.com
