Rebellious Bodies 2025 - Double Bill Performance

Doors open at 7pm, performances start at 7:30pm.

Headline Performance

Tonight or Never...

MutsumiNeiro

This is an eternal marriage.

Like Chagall’s blooming dream of love.

Just as the living breathe life into the dead, the dead cherish the living.

Just as everyone thinks of their beloved.

Dancing with you, an eternal six minutes.

I am always with you. Never.

Butoh duo MUTSUMINEIRO's signature piece, performed in the UK for the very first time. It was inspired by what the duo refer to as "Chagall's blooming eternal marriage". Since its premiere in 2014, this piece has been performed in Japan, Israel, Germany, Poland, Brazil, and Ecuador.

Supporting Act

The Goo Remembers

Mai Burns

In silence breaking, a shape shifts, dissolves—
A body unfurls, folds, and forgets itself.

A caterpillar dream, held in the pulse of wings,
Time dissolves and the past lingers in fragments.

Caught between being and not,
In the dark, the Goo remembers…

First UK butoh performance by UK-Japanese artist Mai Burns.

Workshop

EXODUS

2-day butoh workshop with MutsumiNeiro

Saturday 25 April: 11am-5:30pm
Sunday 26 April: 11am-5:30pm

Workshop Theme

Dance dismantles your wish to understand it.
Never get caught up by your wish to put meaning in it.
Let it just dance!!

Every moment is a new moment, every breath you make is a new breath.
Everything you see, touch, smell, taste, think, feel, and you yourself,
everything is new.
And everything will go and never come back the same.
We are leaving and entering into a vast field where nobody has ever been before.
Unpromised is our reality.

Create body without falling into a fleeting experience. Take it as an engraving, tattooing it into yourself as your life experience.
Never stop throwing off yourself a little more, a little more.
Go out into yourself.
The secret of the body to be created is in your own dance.

Dancer is dance, dance is dancer.
Everything in your life is your dance.
It is an exploration for your dance harbouring extravagant possibilities.​​​​