DasSHOKU Hora!

Smashed on the rocks of cultural identity, this Japanese ghost-ship gathers mythology from the east and sinks down into the dark Butoh dementia of cabaret goddess Yumi Umiumare. Ancient hag Yamamba mutates from traditional woman to harridan Ganguro while Hello Kitty Girl sells her pink panties to wrinklelovers. From Japan to Australia, audiences are unsure whether to laugh and cry or cut and run.

DasSHOKU Hora!! is the third in the DasSHOKU series following the award-winning Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl and the sellout Osaka season of DasSHOKU Cultivations!! 'Hora' in Japanese means to look out. From the Western phonetics of Mary Shelly, H.P. Lovecraft, Hammer horror films to the Eastern pictograms of Lafcadio Hearn, Kwaidan ghost stories and The Ring, Yumi Umiumare and her DasSHOKU team Matt Crosby and Ben Rogan have a reputation for presenting culture-crush dementia completely lost in the translation of commodity worship.

‘Dashoku suru’ is a Japanese term meaning to bleach; to strip off colour.