IMAGINARY SOLUTIONS
(BUTOH COLLABORATION)
Listen to a preview radio show on Resonance FM (broadcast 13.11.19):
First performance:
15th November 2019
THE HORSE HOSPITAL
Colonnade, Bloomsbury
London WC1N 1JD
In troubled times of impossibly complex problems, new, radical, weird perspectives are required to imagine equally impossible solutions. Drawing on arcane anglo-Japanese folk entanglements, the hypnosis of late night TV, and crowd-sourced dream journals, this night secreted right in the heart of the metropolis attempts to divine new perspectives via the exploratory physicality of Butoh and the weirder underside of experimental music.
Imaginary Solutions is a collaboration between the Tokyo-based Butoh dancer/martial artist Takahiro Tomatsu, and the acclaimed London-based experimental music ensemble ARCO, led by composer performer Neil Luck.
An intense and ambitious new international collaboration in one of London’s most idiosyncratic independent venues, Imaginary Solutions set out to fashion strange new tools for strange new futures…
Performers include:
Takahiro Tomatsu / Dance
Neil Luck / Voice
Adam de la Cour / Voice, guitar, film
Tom Jackson / Reeds
Chihiro Ono / Violin, viola
Sam Rice / Double bass
Benedict Taylor / Viola, voice
+ special guests FOUR FOUR:
Sara Gale / Cello
Oles Klok / Keys
Gwen Reed / Doublebass
Paul Zaba / Accordion


Neil Luck and ARCO gratefully acknowledge support from the PRS for Music Foundation
and the Japan-UK Season of Culture 2019-2020







Photographs by Ilme Vysniauskaite