‘Fruit of My Woman’ is a solo piece based on the short story of the same name by novelist Han Kang (read here). It is a response to the pressures of ‘straight time’ (to get married, to have children, and so on), in which a figure blurs the boundary between human, non-human, and celestial. It evokes strong archetypal images through the symbol of a pomegranate split open.
This piece was devised at Butoh Santuario in Oaxaca, Mexico – Mexico today is one of the hubs of butoh innovation. It has been performed at Modern Art Oxford (as part of a longer performance with BEIMA), at the Queer Butoh Festival in New York City, Brussells, and has been represented in a VR project with the University of Portsmouth.
See video here.
BEIMA (Bureau of Environmental Interpretation and Memory Analysis) is a collaboration with Fine Artist Xinyue Liu and hip-hop dancer/neuroscientist Mingyu Zhu. BEIMA is a fictional institution established in response to a future ecological catastrophe. BEIMA operates on the principle that nature generates thoughts, dreams, and memories, which its Officers capture through images and movements. Their recent debut performance depicts BEIMA Officers at work, unfolding in three intervals. The first scene is a strong of transformation, the second recreates the dying dreams of the now-extinct Yangtze River dolphin, and the third portrays an abbey on the eve of its destruction.
Member of London Butoh Dance Company/Posthuman Theatre
As an ensemble member of London Butoh Dance Company since 2022, Iris has collaborated and performed in ‘Of Mirrors and Shadows’. The piece takes inspiration from Aristophanes’ myth of the Androgynous in Plato’s Symposium. The myth speaks of an ancient human form, where people were round, with four arms and four legs, symbolizing a precondition of unity. After their separation from the gods, they were left in a state of grief and suffering, reflecting the current human condition. This was performed both at Blue Elephant Theatre and the Chisenhale Dance Space.
Posthuman’s most recent performance, iFlash: Anatomy not found, took place on the 6th December 2025 at Etcetera Theatre in Camden, London. This piece explores the collision of bodies and technology we are facing in contemporary times.
Costume assistants: @haris.ack, @lin_a_sarhan, @mckennaireland, @ariznelespace and @ amaryllis_lily_melody.
Image Credit: London Butoh Dance Company/ Posthuman Theatre
Butoh Virtual Reality
Iris 