WS#2 Weekly Training through Butoh and Beyond | 7 Sep - 12 Oct
ButohOUT!2023
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER
Weekly training through Butoh and Beyond
This weekly workshop (6 sessions in total) 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 and 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), Matthew Crosby (Suzuki Training) and Emma Bathgate (Voice).
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.
We recommend that all take all 6 sessions, however, drop-in also welcome.
Participants also may choose to show/work on their work to be part of ButohOUT! 2023 ButohBAR - Out of Order as ButohOUT! Ensemble. This is an optional activity.
FACILITATOR
Yumi Umiumare
with guest teachers
Willow J Conway (Cabaret)
Matthew Crosby (Suzuki training)
Emma Bathgate (Voice)
WHERE
St Mary Church
430 Queensberry Street, North Melbourne Victoria 3051
COST
$150 for all
$30 for drop-in
COMBO
All 4 W/Ss - $850
3 Weekend W/Ss - $750
2 Weekend W/Ss - $460
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
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CONTACT
0478 634 052
butohout@gmail.com
Schedule - 7 Sep - 12 Oct - 6 sessions on Thursdays
Week 1 - 7 Sep
Yumi Butoh#1
Week 2 - 14 Sep
Butoh warm-up (Yumi) then Willow (Cabaret)
Description of Workshop
Learn the Seductive & Saucy art of tease as you get down & dirrrty with award winning Mx Burlesque Australia 2016/17, Willow J!. During this playful workshop, you'll learn to embody raw sexual energy through exploring modern day erotic stripper floor moves combined with the old school classic burlesque bump n grind. Working with tantric yoga breath techniques, you’ll discover how to consciously connect breath to body to help harness your sexual flow while maintaining awareness on stage. Get ready to ignite your fire and play with passion!
Week 3 - 21 Sep
Yumi Butoh#2
Week 4 - 28 Sep
Butoh warm-up (Yumi) then Matthew (Suzuki training)
Description of Workshop by Matthew
Crosby will introduce some basic principles of Suzuki Training and mind-body-voice articulation. Take a deep breath—expect a start-to-finish high-energy workshop. Please learn this text: "Row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream. Merrily merrily merrily merrily, life is but a dream."
Week 5 - 5 Oct
Butoh warm-up (Yumi) then Emma Bathgate (Voice)
Description of Workshop by Emma
Singing & Sounding the Butoh Body: Participants will be led through a deep grounded process of body relaxation, breath awareness into dynamic vocal warm up through exercises and improvisational vocal play activating their singing bodies. The workshop will enable participants to explore the different timbres and diverse qualities of their own voices and explore what they are capable of from subtle humming to long open notes. There will be a focus on solo song voice improvisation, bouffant song delivery and group vocal ensemble play –utilising some favourite hit songs and blasting them apart together!
Week 6 - 12 Oct
Yumi Butoh sum-up all
Facilitators’ Profile
Willow J Conway
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!
Matthew Crosby
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.
Emma Bathgate
Emma Bathdate- improviser singer musician - her voice spans delicate melodies, to full powerhouse vocals supported by her strong free dynamic stage presence. She has worked for many years in the Australian improvisational music and dance scene, currently writing solo song work. Current collaborative music projects: LvR, Bathhara, Atonal Bitch and Church of Burt (Bacharach) project.
Past theatre dance shows: Somebody's Daughter Theatre Company 2022, ButohOut!2021/2022, Torque Show's Intimacy 2015-18, the Tony Yap Company, Snuff Puppets. Emma created/produced cabaret work; The Dilapidated Diva (Green Room Award Winner). Emma has studied opera, performance and music and shares singing and voice with others through teaching and workshops.
www.emmabathgate.com
ButohOUT! 2023
Workshop Series
WS #1
INTRODUCTION TO BUTOH - Weekend
Sep 2 (Sat) and 3 (Sun)
10am-4:30pm
@ OkiTopia, Thornbury
WS #2
TRAINING THROUGH BUTOH and BEYOND - Weekly
Sep 7 (Thur) - Oct 12 (Thur)
Every Thursday x 6 sessions
6pm-9pm
@ St Mary, North Melbourne
WS #3
FORM and DRAMATURGY - Weekend
Sep 23 (Sat) and 24 (Sun)
10am-4:30 pm
@ LGI studio, North Melbourne
WS #4
VISUAL and BODY - Weekend
Oct 14 (Sat) and 15 (Sun)
10am-4:30pm
@Abbotsford Convent