In 1997 I was one of a group of artists, including Jeannie Donald (recently returned from living in Japan) who co-founded the Cafe Reason Butoh Company. I trained and performed regularly with them until 1999 when I left to develop my solo performance practice
In that time Cafe Reason produced three full-scale performances Bona Dea (1997) at FREVD, followed by Echo (1998) and Erosion (1999) both at Pegasus Theatre. In 1998 Coral Arts commissioned the company to produce The Forest that Sailed Away, a site-specific performance in the ruins of Minster Lovell
Cafe Reason
Butoh emerged in Tokyo in the late 1950’s as a grotesquely performative response to American Cultural Imperialism and to the military occupation of Japan in the wake of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
