Mujokan
Location
Kew Gardens London: The Temperate House
October 2021
8th and 9th and 15th and 16th
The event runs from 6.30pm to 10.30pm with repeated Butoh solo improvisation performances at the following times:
6.35pm to 6.55pm
7.35pm to 7.55pm
8.35pm to 8.55pm
9.35pm to 9.55pm
flower petals fall
but the flower endures
As part of Japan After Hours|Kew, Dance collective Butoh UK will perform a series of solos for Mujokan throughout the Temperate House, taking inspiration from the surrounding plants.
Butoh-informed dancers and live artists, under the artistic direction of Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, will perform a series of vignettes.
They will embody the flower in its stages of blooming, fragrance and decay, to underscore the transience of all existence.
Butoh creates a rich, open space for the audience to enter and explore their thoughts and dreams.
Invited solo dancers:
Eeva Maria Mutka
Yumino Seki
Yuka Negoro
Yuliya Krylova
Hollie Miller
Athina Vahla
Marie-Gabrielle Rotie
Composed and live sound by Nick Parkin
Costumes by Yuliya Krylova
Photography by Keiko Ikeuchi