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.

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Butoh-informed dancers and live artists, under the artistic direction of Marie-Gabrielle Rotie, will perform a series of vignettes.

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They will embody the flower in its stages of blooming, fragrance and decay, to underscore the transience of all existence.

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Butoh creates a rich, open space for the audience to enter and explore their thoughts and dreams.

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Invited solo dancers:

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Eeva Maria Mutka

Yumino Seki 

Yuka Negoro

Yuliya Krylova

Hollie Miller

Athina Vahla 

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie 

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Composed and live sound by Nick Parkin

Costumes by Yuliya Krylova 

Photography by Keiko Ikeuchi 

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