Colour-Fool (ButohOUT 2021 New Ab/Normal)

Colour-Fool is an experimental performance installation work which embraces our colourful acts of ‘foolishness’ to provoke and challenge our perception of ‘what is normal?’

As part of ButohOUT! 2021 (New Ab/Normal), Colour-Fool explores the term ‘new normal’ which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. Colour-Fool brings a smorgasbord of short performances, roving and digital installation works in and around Dancehouse, with a colourful, quirky and illusionary sense of humour.

Colour-Fool will be created by a heterogeneous bunch of established & emerging artists from diverse cultural backgrounds. Drawing on their personal narratives and making use of interdisciplinary practices of poetry, visual arts and body painting — reflecting on interpretations of ‘home,’ ‘connection’ and ‘flesh’ in a post-pandemic Melbourne. Yumi Umiumare, the international Butoh punkess, is directing and also joining in the fusion as a performer, along with new collaborators, Emma Bathgate (voice), Jacqui Stockdale (Visual arts) and Ai Yamamoto (Sound).

Let’s celebrate our unique darkness and the contradictions within ourselves as we face these uncertain times!

Director & Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare Producer: Takashi Takiguchi Co-creators & Performers: Kiki Ando, Emma Bathgate, David Blom, Jessie Ngaio, Pauline Sherlock, Tomoko Yamasaki, Takashi Takiguchi, Yumi Umiumare. Lighting Designer: Rachel Lee Sound Designer: Ai Yamamoto Graphic Design: Monika Benova