Rebellious Bodies - new festival dedicated to Butoh - 31 October to 12 November 2023

Rebellious Bodies is a brand new festival taking place around the UK set up to re-introduce butoh to a UK audience. The festival brings together the world’s best butoh performers, butoh-inspired performers and butoh experimentalists to share their rich decades of experience through exclusive, potentially once-in-a-lifetime showings of rare work that has never been seen before in the UK.

Butoh is very rarely available to UK audiences and the programme, which spans London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Jersey, will bring together the world’s best Butoh performers, Butoh-inspired performers and Butoh experimentalists to share exclusive, showings of work that has never been seen before in the UK.

The festival, which includes performances, workshops, film screenings, exhibitions and talks, will allow audiences to watch and learn from masters of this craft. Find the full programme and book at Rebelliousbodies.com.

Events will be taking place in London, Birmingham, Newcastle and Jersey:

LONDON: 31 October – 5 November
BIRMINGHAM: 6 – 8 November
NEWCASTLE: 10-11 November
JERSEY: 11-12 November

A press release can be viewed here.