Workshop: 1 – 2 Mar
Performance: 5 – 9 Mar
Artist Q&A: 8 Mar
Industrial School and Sacred Heart Courtyard
Lunar New Year FLASH SALE:
Book by midnight on Weds 12 February for 20% off!
$40 Butoh Lovers!
$35 Full price
$25 Concession
$20 Mob Tix & Preview
Workshop: 1 – 2 Mar
Performance: 5 – 9 Mar
Artist Q&A: 8 Mar
Industrial School and Sacred Heart Courtyard
Lunar New Year FLASH SALE:
Book by midnight on Weds 12 February for 20% off!
$40 Butoh Lovers!
$35 Full price
$25 Concession
$20 Mob Tix & Preview
Dive into a surreal nightclub experience where cabaret collides with chaos! Accelerate your experience at the pop-up Sake bar before the show.
World Premiere.
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II features enthralling dance, cabaret, song and visual art. The evening is centred around the art form Butoh, a hypnotic style of Japanese dance theatre.
Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2023, this electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.
Led by legendary Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence. Featuring guerrilla performers, roving installations, out-of-order karaoke and more, the evening includes exquisite sake and food by Tamura Sake Bar.
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II thrillingly throws back to a time when Butoh ruled Japan’s nightclubs and strip joints in the 1970s and 1980s.
Sake and spine-tingling ritualistic happenings from 7pm!
5 – 9 March 2025
7.30pm
Industrial School and Sacred Heart Courtyard
Valid until midnight on 12 February 2025.
Please note there will be intermittent loud sounds, low lighting and varying intensity, a moment of flashing lights, potential nudity e adult themes.
Low level of audience involvement.
In the lead up to ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II performance in March 2025, explore and embrace the tension between order and chaos for yourself.
Sign up for one or more workshop packages and be a part of the sublime world of Butoh under the guidance of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend Yumi Umiumare and Internationally acclaimed Butoh artists. The series culminates in a March weekend workshop led by Butoh Master Atsushi Takenouchi, accompanied by Hiroko Komiya in the Industrial School at the Convent.
Workshop 1:
WEEKLY TRAINING: THROUGH BUTOH and BEYOND
21 Jan – 18 Feb 2025
St Mary Anglican Church
Workshop 2:
2-DAY WEEKEND: VISUAL, TEXT AND BODY THROUGH MAGIC OF BUTOH
8 and 9 Feb 2025
Wxyz Studios
Workshop 3:
2-DAY WEEKEND WORKSHOP BY BUTOH MASTER ATSUSHI accompany by HIROKO KOMIYA
1 and 2 March 2025
Abbotsford Convent Industrial School
This series of workshops is open to all experience levels and artistic disciplines. Limited spaces available.
Prenota ora to avoid disappointment.
Cher Tan, Yumi Umiumare and designer Jacqui Stockdale discus the ethos and principles underlying ButohBAR and their community practice.
Cher Tan is an essayist, critic and editor living and working on unceded Wurundjeri land. She previously lived in Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore, where she was born and raised.
Her work has appeared in Sydney Review of Books, Hyperallergic, Kill Your Darlings, Cordite, Gusher magazine, Catapult, The Guardian, Art Guide Australia and The Age, among many others.
She is the reviews editor at Meanjin and an editor at LIMINAL magazine.
Cher’s work thinks through technology, late capitalism, borders and boundaries, power and complicity, and the construction of identity, self, and culture in a hyper-real world.
Post show Q&A
Saturday 8 March, 9.30pm
Scuola industriale è accessibile alle sedie a rotelle.
Please note there will be intermittent loud sounds, low lighting and varying intensity, a moment of flashing lights, potential nudity and adult themes.
Low level of audience involvement.
