Ken Mai Butoh Performance and London Butoh Dance Company

Sunday 24 August 2025Doors open: 17:30 | Performance: 17:30–19:00📍 Chisenhale Dance Space, London

Enter the depths of movement and spirit in this rare double-bill performance featuring Ken Mai, the internationally revered Japanese Butoh master, and London Butoh Dance Company in their haunting piece Of Mirrors and Shadows.

The evening marks the culmination of Ken Mai’s 3-day intensive London workshop and offers audiences a singular opportunity to witness his visionary work on stage. Drawing from decades of training in Japanese Butoh, Zen practice, mysticism, and ritual, Ken Mai’s performance conjures the invisible: a dance of purification, transformation, and spiritual invocation.

Alongside him, London Butoh Dance Company / Posthuman Theatre presents Of Mirrors and Shadows — a striking and poetic group work inspired by Aristophanes’ myth of the Androgynous from Plato’s Symposium. The piece delves into the human search for wholeness, exploring fragmented bodies, duality, and the longing to reunite with the self or other. Known for their visceral, interdisciplinary, and immigrant-led approach, LBDC weaves Butoh with posthuman thought, theatre, and immersive atmospheres.

• Ken Mai (Japan/Finland) – Solo Performance
• London Butoh Dance Company – Of Mirrors and Shadows

• £13 General Admission
• £10 Concession (unwaged, student, low-income)
• FREE for workshop participants - Email to receive a promo code for free entry via Eventbrite.

Chisenhale Dance Space64–84 Chisenhale RdLondon E3 5QZ

This one-night-only event offers a rare and intimate portal into Butoh as sacred ceremony, theatrical provocation, and deep embodied poetry.

Reserve your place early — space is limited.

Host or Publisher London Butoh Dance Company and Totally Thames