ButohOUT! 2025: #2 Weekend Workshop: Visual, Text and Body—Feb 2025
ButohOUT! 2023 ButohBAR番狂わせOUT of ORDER
ButohOUT! 2025
ButohBAR 番狂わせ
OUT of ORDER II
2-Day Weekend: VISUAL, TEXT and BODY through MAGIC OF BUTOH
“In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.”
— Carl Jung
This unique weekend workshop merges visual arts, text work, and Butoh, led by a trio of award-winning artists: Jacqui Stockdale (visual arts), Maude Davey(text), and Yumi Umiumare (Butoh). Participants will explore the notion of magic through an interdisciplinary approach that blends dance (body/movement), text (poetry/imaginative writing), and visual arts (drawing/object-making).
Continuing from last year’s theme, Out of Order, the facilitators will guide participants in exploring the tension between order and chaos. Through the juxtaposition of chaos and composure, abstract and concrete, visible and invisible, form and non-form, participants will embrace the indescribable and provocative realm of art-making in the spirit of Butoh.
The work created during the workshop will serve as inspiration for ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II, a performance event in March 2025 (participation optional).
This workshop is open to all experience levels and artistic disciplines. Limited spaces available.
WHEN
8 (Sat) and 9 (Sun) Feb
10am - 4:30 pm
WHERE
Wxyz Studios
130 Dryburgh St,
Melbourne North
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COST
$300/280
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. -
Based in Melbourne, Jacqui Stockdale is a multimedia artist known for her figurative paintings, drawings, staged photographs, collages and vaudevillian performances.
She is drawn to the human condition, engaging in folklore narratives, masquerade and anthropological complexities. Stockdale graduated from Victorian College of the Arts in 1990 and Hobart Centre for the Arts in 1993. Her recent museum style installation, The Outlaws Inn, is based on the hidden narratives of the Australian anti-hero, Ned Kelly and includes comical life size figures, haunting soundscapes and animatronics.
Recent commissions include animation for film, designing costume & installation for Japanese ButohOUT! 2021 and portrait commissions by The National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. Stockdale has exhibited in Europe, Asia, the Americas and Australia and has work held in major collections including the National Gallery of Australia, The Museum and Art Gallery of Tasmania and the Watermill Collection USA.
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Maude Davey has been creating performances in Melbourne and Australia for thirty-five years. Her primary focus is the creation of new work, particularly Cabaret and Variety Performance.
Recent credits include: Gender Euphoria (Director/Producer) for Melbourne Festival and Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and Gender Euphoria: Mighty Real (Director/Producer) Sydney WorldPride and Arts Centre Melbourne; Blessed Union (Actor) by Maeve Marsden at Belvoir Street Theatre; Set Piece (Actor) by Anna Breckon and Nat Randall. She is currently undertaking a PhD at La Trobe University looking at queer and feminist short form variety performance.
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
