Blacklight Kabuki is the creation of artists Rodger Carr and Philip Blackwelder. Beginning in 1997 with a few blacklight fine art exhibits, they later migrated from canvas to skin in body art shows. The first of these was the 1999 "Lost Language of Light: Blacklight Body Art Show", which went beyond ordinary glamour show to tell a story set to exotic music and dance. The show was presented in a "kabuki" style, which is to say - the actors performed the story in mime as a narriator guided the audience through the scenes. Later, many of the models from that event, along with students of dance and theatre, joined together with the artists to form an art performance troope, bringing a unique form of theatrical performance to the audiences of the Monroe, La area; and thus, Blacklight Kabuki was born.