Butoh
Performances
One evening 2 mesmerizing dance performances:
Ken Mai (JP/FI) Flesh to Ashes
MayuKan - DaniMayu ButohDanceCompany (AT) HiHiMe
Date:
19.10.2025, 19:30
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
Butoh
Performances
One evening 2 mesmerizing dance performances:
Yuko Kobayashi (JP/FR) Beyond Motifs
Joan Laage I Kogut Butoh & Students (int) Das Geschöpf
Date:
18.10.2025, 19:30
Location:
OFF Theater I open:box
Kirchengasse 41, 1070 Wien, Austria
Entrance Fee:
Regular: EUR 25
Discount 1 (Seniors, Club Ö1): EUR 19
Discount 2 (Pupils, students, IGFT members, Ö1 intro): EUR15
Tickets:
Phone: +43 676 360 62 06
Mail: karten@off-theater.at
Onlineshop (8% discount)
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Ken Mai (JP/FI)
Flesh to Ashes
This work focuses on the body and soul. It is based on the themes of life, death, love, embodying the dignity and profoundness of human beings.
Thoroughly questioning, experimenting and struggling with the body and spirit, the performer senses life and the concept of death, until the body eventually decays and is transformed into ashes by the flames, returning to the earth and water. Embodying this ritualistic act, the performer burns away the ego and desires, becoming ashes, and the remaining soul departs for the sacred beyond.
I believe that at the root of this process lies the energy, embrace and guidance of love, which is said to be the universal consciousness, and I am convinced that the momentary performance contains the secret of eternity.
Duration: 45 minutes
Direction, lighting, music selection, dance: Ken Mai
Costume design: Anna Kushnerova
About
KEN MAI is a Japanese International Butoh Artist, Choreographer,Teacher and Yogi living in Helsinki, Finland. He studied with Butoh founder Kazuo Ohno in Yokohama, Japan, and also was a member of Sub Rosa Butoh Company(Under Byakko Sha Butoh Company) at the beginning of the '90s in Kyoto, Japan. Same time he was also a member of the German Expressionist Modern Dance Company by Otoya Eguchi in Osaka, Japan. He has been performing, teaching, and collaborating in more than 30 countries officially with various artists throughout European Tour, US Tour, Mexican Tour, Russian Tour, Latin America, India, and Japan etc. His art is based on Butoh and also combines his background with Gymnastics, Martial arts(Wing Chun Kung Fu), Modern dance, Ballet, the Laban method, Singing, Zen, and Ancient Indian philosophy. He expresses profoundly the life, death of nature being, and love through the foundation of the seed of darkness. He has also certified 200 hours of Ancient Hatha Yoga Teacher Training at Patanjali Yoga Foundation in Rishikesh, India in 2014.
MayuKan - DaniMayu ButohDanceCompany (AT)
HiHiMe
On the final journey, after a recurring cycle of decay and re-emergence, the souls that have been demonized as witches for thousands of years return to earth for the last time.
HiHime is the search for the ancestors, female forces that have been carried over generations and guaranteed their survival as the backbone of the clan.
Duration: 30 minutes
Concept, Choreograph: DaniMayu
Dance: DaniMayu, Harley, Runa Hatariy
About
DaniMayu stands for an original ButohDance, as passed on to her by first and second generation masters while she lived and learned with them in Japan (2000-2005). Above all, her more than 5-year collaboration with Dairakudakan is formative. Nevertheless, workshops, courses and projects with ButohMasters such as Motofuji Akiko, Kinya 'Zulu' Tsuruyama or Tamano Koichi in Asbestoskan, Ohno Yoshito at Kazuo Ohno Dance Studio and Hiruko Hino and Kasai Akira as well as Semimaru and Toru Iwashita from Sankai Juku contributed to her deep understanding of Butoh.
DaniMayu made her debut in 2000 with the solo piece Jiyū [jap. Freedom] in Kochuten, the studio of Dairakudakan in Kichijōji I Tokyo. Since then DaniMayu had numerous appearances in Japan, Austria, South Tyrol.
Since 2005 DaniMayu gives regular ButohCourses and -Workshops in Vienna. 2008 she started to invite guest instructors from abroad to give ButohWorkshops in Vienna.
2006, DaniMayu created the ButohDanceCompany MayuKan.
2010 DaniMayu organized the first Butohresque - ViennaButohFestival
2012, DaniMayu founded ButohKan Mayu - ButohCenter Austria
HARLEY coming soon!
RUNA HATARIY coming soon!