Rebellious Bodies is a brand new festival across the UK to reintroduce audiences to Butoh, the ground-breaking Japanese dance form.

Butoh is very rarely available to UK audiences and the programme, which spans London, Brimingham, Newcastle and Jersey, will bring together the world's best Butoh performers, Butoh-inspired performers and Butoh experimentalists to share exclusive, potentially once-in-a-lifetime showings of work that has never been seen before in the UK.

The festival, which includes performances, workshops, film screenings, exhibitions and talks, gives audiences potentially once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to watch and learn from masters of this craft.

Performances include Melancholia - A Portrait of M by Mitsuyo Uesegi, who has been performing Butoh for over 50 years and trained with Butoh co-founder Kazuo Ohno; About Kazuo Ohno by Takao Kawaguchi, a long-established Japanese contemporary dancer whose Bessie award-nominated show has been performed in 38 cities worldwide; and Hijikata Mon Amour by Vangeline, an homage to Butoh co-founder Tatsumi Hijikata performed in an exact replica of Hijikata's spectacular red 1968 costume (Hijikata and the Japanese: Revolt of the Body), recreated by Todd Thomas.

IKLECTIK also hosts Butoh on Film, a night of Butoh-infused performance, film and installation work, and Butoh Experiments, an evening of experimental performance and live music inspired by Butoh. Rich Mix's free exhibition Flowerbird: A Tribute to Yoshito Ohno pays homage to the late Yoshito Ohno, the last of three Butoh founders who passed away in 2020, while Butoh Across Borders and Metamorphosis of Darkness are two-panel discussions on contemporary Butoh by today's leading academics, dancers and practitioners.

£12 + (different events have different ticket prices - workshops can be pay what you can)