Kick Off and Symposium

Date: 14 January 2025 (Tuesday)

Time: 6:00 pm

Venue: Multimedia Theatre (M1060), L1, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre, CityUHK.

Co-presented by Sotheby's Maison, Xevarion Institute and School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong.

We are delighted to have legendary Butoh dancers Tadashi Endo, Ima Tenko, Yasuo Fukurozaka, Masami Yurabe with Miwako Inagaki, Yuri Nagaoka and Seisaku to participate in this festival. A comprehensive exhibition at the Catalyst Gallery (14 - 17 January 2025) and performances at the Sotheby’s Maison, Hong Kong (BUTOH IN SIX ACTS, 15, 16, 17 January 2025) will take place during the festival period, with historical artefacts, photographic, cinematographic and sculptural remnants / memento mori displayed to the Hong Kong public for the first time, in association with the Hijikata Tatsumi Archive at the Keio University (Tokyo), curated by Takashi Morishita.

The festival will kick off at the City University of Hong Kong’s School of Creative Media, where films screening of significant archival materials will accompany the artists’ symposium co-chaired by Frederique Decombe , Lecturer at SCM and Dr. Damien Charrieras, Associate Professor at SCM.

Registration for participation in the Kick off Ceremony & Symposium with the artists of the Festival: https://forms.gle/QpuXyGGJ4ewu65Bt5

There is no online registration service on Saturday and Sunday. Please reserve in advance.

For more details:

https://www.scm.cityu.edu.hk/events/congress-butoh-souls

https://www.sothebys.com/en/series/butoh-in-six-acts

https://www.xevarion.org/