Butohresque – Vienna Butoh Festival focuses on the origins of Butoh, which go back to Hijikata Tatsumi and his companion Ohno Kazuo and Ohno Yoshito, and to the early developments up to the so-called second generation, whose representatives include Maro Akaji with Dairakudakan, Murobushi Ko and Amagatsu Ushio with Sankai Juku.
Side acts embrace the -esque [French ‘in the manner of‘ or ‘-like’] and open up space for current trends not only in Butoh dance but in dance in general. Here the festival presents modern movements, artists of newer generations who have developed away from these origins and/or artists who incorporate ideas and elements of Butoh dance into their work and refer to it, but do not want to be classified in this category themselves.
For the fifth edition of Butohresque – Vienna Butoh Festival we could find a new partner theater to host the performances. We are very happy that Butohresque Vol. 5 will take place at the off-theater in the heart of Vienna: https://off-theater.at
At the moment we are working intensively on the program for the 5th edition of Butohresque - Vienna Butoh Festival, which will take place 10.-19.10.2025. We would be happy to fill it with your contribution! Welcome are pure Butoh-ka as well as FusionPerformer with Butoh background!
Basic Program:
10.10.2025: Opening
11.-16.10.2025 (or according to the instructor's idea): Workshop with showing on 16.10.2025
17.10.2025: evening of short pieces (with focus on Austrian artists and Hybrid Butoh)
18.&19.10.2025: 1day-workshops, 2 performances per evening, movie-brunch
We are looking for:
- Sat./Sun.-Events: performances 40-60 min.
- Fri.-Event: performances 15-25 min.
- workshop instructor for a week workshop with final showing on 16.10.2025
- instructors for day-workshops
We a small organisation and do not receiving any financial aid we offer: free accommodation, venue for performance or workshop, technical stuff, festival entrance, share of the performance income & income of the given workshop (after covering coasts for the venue)
How to apply:
CV, description of your project, link to video, pictures to:
until 21.02.2025
Please don't hesitate to contact us for further informations at any time: office@butoh-danimayu.com