Butoh Festival Dublin

Thursday 23^rd until Sunday 26^th of August 2012.

The first Butoh Festival Dublin will be held in both Back Loft and Dance House with a fine programme, presenting Irish and international artists.


On four days, ButohDublin will give you the exciting opportunity to fully emerge yourself into exploring Butoh from different angles and through various channels like live-performances, workshops, lectures and films.


Performances by Bridget Scott (Japan) on Thursday, Ambra Bergamasco (Ireland) on Friday and Ken Mai (Finland) on Saturday will give you fine examples of the many approaches to Butoh, while
you can viscerally explore the ideas in the Workshops led by those three exceptional artists on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.


Lectures will be held by social anthropologist and performer Dr. Michael Weiss (Austria) on Convergences toward the Ritual Transmission of Butō through Ohno Yoshito, and visual and
performing artist Fergus Byrne will introduce you to Beckett and his Footfall's Dark Steps.


International short films will be presented in a BringYourOwnBreakfast morning (we'll make
coffee and tea) and together with Ambra Bergamasco's live-performance on Friday evening.


More information on how to register for the workshops and how to get your tickets for the performances on www.butohfestivaldublin.com, where you can also find information about the artists and their work.


You can also find us on facebook! Www.facebook.com/butohfestivaldublin


The Festival is supported by Back Loft, Dance Ireland and the individuals who pledged for our crowd-funding campaign.

Butoh is a contemporary dance form originated in Japan in the 1960s, in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing and the destruction caused. Butoh is described as a profoundly humane art form, speaking from soul to soul, where the dancers create archetypical images through movement, which are not bound to codified shapes. In Butoh, we can witness the beauty of creation and decay, experience silence and explore many forms of human expressions.

Butoh Dublin are a small but dedicated group of people who got together to organise a one of kind intimate festival that would facilitate a kinetic, visual and audible engagement with butoh, one that is speaking to the mind and the body equally through performance, open workshops, talks and film screening.

For more information on the Festival and on interim events please see http://butohfestivaldublin.com/

For a taste of Butho click on this link http://vimeo.com/40737231 

Circle of Light

Dutch photographer Jos Menting will open his Solo Exhibition 'Circle of Light' at the Back Loft on Sunday July 15th as part of the PhotoIreland Festival

All of Menting's photos are shot on film and his black and white work is printed on fibre based paper. Print making in the darkroom is an integral part of Mentings photography
  
'This photography exhibition explores the synchronicity of 3 vastly differing worlds that I witnessed and captured over the last 10 years. I experienced the complexity of life, the continual cycles of struggles, conflict and joy within the power of nature in an ever changing light. The projects involve images from the Streets of Dublin, Nigeria – Primary school, Jos, Plateau State and Kona Village and my Garden Series'

'Circle of Light' Opening Sunday July 15th. Show runs until Thursday July 19th

This show is part of The PhotoIreland Festival 

http://2012.photoireland.org/intro/index.html

For more information on Jos Menting see:  http://www.josmenting.com