At Melaka Art & Performance Festival I watched dancers overcome by a trance in the rain, and the smoke
- Written by Jonathan W. Marshall, Associate Professor & Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Edith Cowan University
Feifei Liao performing in the village ruins.
Photo by and courtesy of Teo Swee An.Melbourne-based Tony Yap is a leading figure in Australian interpretations of the abstract Japanese dance form of butoh and what he calls “trance dance”. In butoh and trance, movers consider the body as a porous receptacle for spirits and forces from...





