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| 2008 |
Performance Credits |
| December |
BUTOH RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP 2008
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The aim of this workshop on the Dee River, Yarra Valley was to develop body awareness and expression through a response to landscape. The lush landscape in Yarra Valley allows participants to move between bush land, hills, open fields and river, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being with various Japanese techniques.
Butoh - Originating in Japan out of the turbulent protest culture of the early 1960's, Butoh has a literal translation of BU - dance TOH - stomping. Earlier named Ankoku Butoh (the Dance of Darkness), it is one of the major developments in contemporary dance in the latter half of the twentieth century.
"Butoh belongs to life and death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown. It also represents man’s struggle to overcome the distance between himself and the material world. Butoh dancers’ bodies are like a cup filled to overflowing, one which cannot take one more drop of liquid – the body enters a state of perfect balance."
USHIO AMAGATSU, Sankaijuku
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February
October
November |
Ngapartji Ngapartji
'Ngapartji Ngapartji' translates as 'I give you something, you give me something' and this concept of reciprocity is at the heart of the broader Ngapartji Ngapartji project. Using 'puntu' (body), 'inma' (song) and 'tjukurpa' (story) and performed in Pitjantjatjara, English, Japanese, Hazari and Greek, Ngapartji Ngapartji explores the impact of the Cold War on the 20th century through the prism of Trevor's family experience in the South Australian desert.
“A pure gift” Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes
“It’s a magical piece of theatre” Sybil Nolan, The Herald Sun
Writers: Scott Rankin & co-creator Trevor Jamieson
Choreography: Yumi Umiumare
Director: Scott Rankin
Key performer: Trevor Jamieson
Performers: Yumi Umiumare, Jangala Jamieson, Saira Luther, Andrew MacGregor, Lex Marinos, Beth Sometimes, Lorna Wilson, Pitjantjatjara young people and the Ngapartji Ngapartji Choir
Araluen Arts Centre, Alice Springs, October 2008
Ernabella Arts Centre 60th Anniversary, September 2008.
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August
September |
Burlesque Hour… She’s Back!
SYDNEY SEASON
Sydney Opera House
GEELONG SEASON
September Geelong Performing Arts Centre
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August
October |
ReelDance
Adelaide August 22-31 Antistatic Adelaide August 22-31 Antistatic
Christchurch Sept 25 - Oct 12 The Body Festival of Dance and Physical Theatre
Byron Bay (Northern Rivers Performing Arts), Cairns (On Edge Contemporary Media & Performance), Melbourne (ACMI), Sydney (Performance Space Carriageworks), Hobart (Salamanca Arts Centre), Perth (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) , Noosa, Brisbane World Dance Alliance & Ausdance QLD
A compendium of short dance films from around the world hosted by Frances Rings (Aust) and Jonzi D (from the UK). Launched last December at the Australian High Commission in London and screened as part of the 4th International Dance Film Festival in Yokohama, 2008, this is a unique and exciting collaboration between the ABC, the Australian Council, Channel 4 (UK) and the Arts Council England.
The first of the series of three 30 minute dance programs to be shown over consecutive Tuesday’s in Artscape, includes the especially commissioned works Dis-oriental from Sean O'Brien, choreographed and performed by Yumi Umiumare and Rosie Dennis & Samuel James with Quietly Collapsed.
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| September |
CHIKA: A Documentary Performance
CHIKA is a multi-layered production which crosses the genres of journalism, visual and performing arts, incorporating original live music, dance and narration, documentary images, archival video and recorded interviews to tell a story - the story of Chika Honda, a Japanese woman who spent a decade in Australian jails for a crime she has always insisted she did not commit.
Sydney Season : Carriageworks, March 2008
Adelaide Season : OzAsia Festival 2008
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre, September 2008
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July
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Once Upon A Midnight
a Rock Musical for youth
Choreography: Yumi Umiumare
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May
June |
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Five female choreographers have each created a solo dance for a male dancer.
Performed in the round, this vibrant collection consists of a diverse and surprising combination of dance forms and content
An autonomously created cohesive musical composition will overlay the five individual works and be introduced to the performances for the first time on the eve before opening night.
Dianne Heywood-Smith on David Backler
Dani-Ela Kayler on Lee Serle
Jo Lloyd on Adam Wheeler
Dianne Reid on Luke Hickmott
Yumi Umiumare on Gerard Veltre
Musical director/composer : Wendy Morrison
Curator : Gulsen Ozer
Since completing a Bachelor in Performing Arts with Honors in Visual Culture and a second major in Drama and a minor in Dance at Monash University Melbourne, Gulsen has worked as a choreographer, writer, performer and director, as well as a workshop facilitator, dramaturge, curator and producer in the performing and visual arts. Gulsen is currently developing a new dance-theatre work entitled 'Iris' in creative partnership with Dani-Ela Kayler.
"My vision for Girls on Boys is to create a diverse program which encourages new collaborations and involves taking risks. The program title is intentionally provocative marking an old primary school term for dividing into teams to play a game i.e. "Boys on girls", "Girls on boys."
Your Collection
girls on boys has come about through "Your Collection", a Dancehouse initiative that sought expressions of interest from artists to curate a season of short works. Dancehouse provides support to the artist in curating the program and presents their "collection"in a fully promoted public performance season. Like a clothing line, book of stamps or a shed full of biscuit tins, this dance collection is Gulsen Ozer's Collection.
May 28, 29, 30, 31 and June 1, 2008
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Beyond Butoh (BB0#) series has been directed, curated and facilitated by Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare since 2001 to provide the local Butoh community an opportunity to investigate, explore and stretch the limits of what we understand as the intrinsic meaning of Butoh. The long-term vision for this series is a grander scale festival encompassing all idiosyncratic interpretation of Butoh in performance from local and international artists.
A Butoh event
facilitated by
Yumi Umiumare & Janette Hoe
22 & 23 November
VENUE Oki-Do Centre
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The idea for Shapes Within Life is provoked by the famous debate between Kazuo Ono and Tatsumi
Hijikata, the creators of Ankoku Butoh – Dance of Darkness, discussion on the definition of Butoh.
Ono said “Life should not be chasing Form but that Form should follow from Life” and Hijikata said
“Form should be leading Life”.
The performers create movement sequences and collect choreography vocabularies (Shape/Form)
from an individual’s interpretation toward Life.
DIRECTED BY Yumi Umiumare
PERRFORMERS:
Amadis Lacheta, Ann Fuata, Anna Maclean, Antonia Green, Craig Peade, Ellen Rijs,
Felicity Hopkins, Georgia Snowball, Geraldine Morey, Giselle, Janette Hoe,
Jeremy Neideck, Josephine Fisher, Lily Paskas, Mariela Paz Laratro, Medea Red Sea Luminea Fox,
Myfanwy Aldersun, Natalie O’Connor, Xristi Dcruz
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| 2007 |
Performance Credits |
| Dec |
THE BURLESQUE HOUR SIZZLES @ THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT
The Burlesque Hour. SIZZLES! Legendary iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous and fabled strawberry act; Moscow circus trained circus and burlesque star Azaria Universe; Japanese butoh dancer and shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare and guest artiste Clare Bartholomew's Pierre - Magician and Love Machine!
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| Nov/Dec |
Butoh residential workshop
The aim of this workshop was to develop body awareness and expression through a response to landscape. This 140 acre site nearby to Mt Arapiles allowed participants to move between bush land, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form.
Over the weekend, Yumi introduced various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being. Qi Gong /Tai Chi Teacher Andy Green was invited to introduce us to a way of controlling and focusing the inner energy. The se body works acted as powerful counterpoints as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.
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| November |
BB0# series has been directed, curated and facilitated by Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare since 2001 to provide the local Butoh communities an opportunity to investigate, explore and stretch the limits of what we understand as the intrinsic meaning of Butoh. The long-term vision for this series is a grander scale festival encompassing all idiosyncratic interpretation of Butoh in performance from local & International artists.
ARTISTS: Jarrod Benson, Tom Davis, Josephine Fisher, Janette Hoe, Geraldine Morey, Daniel Mounsey, Gabrielle New, Alana Picone, Sharna Vrhowec, Megumi Sasaki, Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap
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| October |
Azaria Universe, Moira Finucane and Yumi Umiumare in performance with the legendary gender in performance icon Maude Davey, and luminous guest artistes cult British cabaret star Ursula Martinez and Bartholomew's epic-tragic clown Pierre: Magician and Love Machine.
Opening The City of Women Festival in Ljubljiana, Slovenia; The Burlesque Hour will go on to seasons with renowned cultural venues Drugo More in Rijeka, Croatia, and Teatro Miela in Trieste.
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| Sept/Oct |
Undiscovered Country
National Cultural Diversity Cluster
Undiscovered Country emanates from a project involving some of Australia's best-known contemporary Australian artists
The work of the originating artists Hossein Valamanesh, William Yang, Hung Le, Yumi Umiumare and Anna Yen, come together at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Undiscovered Country
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| August |
BURNING DAYLIGHT
with
MARRUGEKU
Zurich theatre festival |
| June-July |
BURLESQUE HOUR @ TARANAKI
THE BURLESQUE HOUR MORE!!!
THE BURLESQUE HOUR
BRAVISSIMA!
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| May-June |
The Studio @ Sydney Opera House
CREATED AND PERFORMED
by
YUMI UMIUMARE
IN COLLABORATION WITH
MATT CROSBY & BEN ROGAN |
| March |
SWAMP OF MEMORIES
Pre show Butoh performance by Yumi Umiumare
Following the conclusion of a creative development with Yumi Umiumare, Tokyo-based Butoh Diva, Mutsuko Tanaka, will present a studio performance of a solo work based on her first experience in Australia.
Meat Market |
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180 SECONDS IN HEAVEN OR HELL
art - meets - blood - meets - sport
Part title fight, part sideshow alley, 180 Seconds in Heaven or Hell brings artists and art forms together through one massive live-art experience; like a speeding burlesque show, art forms collide in turbulent three minute episodes, over three stages and three hours.
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Impro-Lab: TRANSPARENCIES
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| February |
Yumi Umiumare, Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith in JAPAN!!
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| 2006 |
Performance Credits |
| 2006 November |
Impro-Lab: Transparencies
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| 2006 November |
BB06 : SIX HOURS SIX SPACES SIX SENSES
Beyond Butoh Festival 2006
Butoh/Trance Performance
This year's theme, Sweeping the Dust, brought performers, visual artists and musicians into metaphysical or spiritual interpretations of cleansing.
Together within the structures of six sections and in the span of six hours, the artists spontaneously created a common poetic theme.
¤ Facilitated by Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare
¤ Lighting designer Dori Bicchierai
¤ Musicians Tim Humphrey, Madeleine Flynn
Artists included Benjamin Ardley, Ingrid Baring, Adam Broinowski, Moira Finucane, Peter Fraser, Josephine Fisher, Madeleine Flynn, Nic Hempel, Janette Hoe, Mike Hornblow, Tim Humphrey, Mariela Laratro, Edgar Loutit, Geraldine Morey, Daniel Mounsey, Ben Rogan, Emma Strapps, Gretel Taylor, Yumi Umiumare, Tomoko Yamasaki and Tony Yap.
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| 2006 October |
Ngapartji Ngapartji
World Premiere : Melbourne International Arts Festival
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| 2006 October |
Dis-Oriental - Dancehouse Spring Dance Program 2 |
| 2006 September |
Burning Daylight with Marrugeku
Premiere
Shinju Matsuri Festival
Broome |
| 2006 June |
The Burlesque Hour @ The Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2006 |
| 2006 May |
Intensive Butoh workshop at Dancehouse |
| 2006 February |
DasSHOKU Hora!!
2005 Green Room nomination
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| 2006 February |
 The Burlesque Hour @ The Famous Spiegeltent!
The Arts Centre, Melbourne
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| 2005 December |
The Burlesque Hour @ The Famous Spiegeltent!
Return season in Melbourne |
| 2005 November |
B B O 5
site - self - solo
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| 2005 November |
DasSHOKU Hora!!
World Premiere @ the Tower Theatre,
Malthouse, Melbourne
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| 2005 August |
The Burlesque Hour @ The Famous Spiegeltent!
The Edinburgh International Festival 2005
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| 2005 July |
Yumi Umiumare: Butoh Dance
Short film by Sean O'Brien featured on ABC |
| 2005 July |
Sunrise at midnight
Short film by Sean O'Brien featured on SBS Masterpieces |
| 2005 July |
Marrugeku Burning Daylight
A public showing in Broome showcasing this work in progress.
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| 2005 May |
＜スマトラ島沖地震チャリティーコンサート＞
Sumatra Earthquake Charity Concert |
| 2005 April |
The Joker
Melbourne International Comedy Festival, 2005 : Dancehouse, Carlton |
| 2005 March |
Cyberball Five - Butoh Performance - Midsumma Festival 2005 : Inflation, Melbourne |
| 2005 March |
L'Erotica at the Queensbridge Hotel |
| 2005 February |
Chika a documentary performance by Mayu Kanamori
Dance performance by Yumi Umiumare
Satsuki Odamura (koto), Anne Norman (Shakuhachi), Toshinori Sakamoto (Wadaiko), Tom Fitzgerald (violin & keyboard) |
| 2005 February |
girls on the floor @ Loop midsumma festival, Melbourne
Mixed doses of avant garde moving images & performance
DJ's & VJ's : Mo ichi & Minh and L lady Y kronK
with performance by The Town Bikes & Yumi Umiumare |
| 2005 January |
Eavesdrop
Energex, Brisbane; Melbourne International Arts Festival; Sydney Festival
David Pledger, Artistic Director of 'Not Yet It's Difficult' and Jeffrey Shaw, world-renowned pioneer of interactive cinema, push the cinematic and the theatrical imaginary in this extraordinary new work.
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| 2004 November |
The Burlesque Hour @The Famous Spiegeltent
Moira Finucane, Azaria Universe, Yumi Umiumare |
| 2004 November |
The Burlesque Hour Adelaide Feast |
| 2004 November |
The Burlesque Hour The Studio at Sydney Opera House
Moira Finucane, Jackie Smith, Azaria Universe, Yumi Umiumare
in Association with Finucane & Smith
Special Guest Toni Lamond |
| 2004 October | Guest Star appearance at the Blue Rinse Club, The Arts Centre, Black Box, Melbourne, as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival |
| 2004 September | Eavesdrop Energex, Brisbane; Melbourne International Arts Festival; Sydney Festival
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| 2004 September | How could you even begin to understand? #30-33 Dancehouse, Melbourne |
| 2004 July |
The Burlesque Hour Premiere season at fourtyfive downstairs, Melbourne
Moira Finucane, Jackie Smith, Azaria Universe, Yumi Umiumare |
| 2004 July |
Women In Transit Dance Performance season at Performance Space, Sydney
Rakini: India/Australia (NSW), Yumi Umiumare: Japan /Australia (VIC), DD Dorvillier: USA (New York) |
| 2004 May/June |
Project in Broome with MARRUGEKU produced by STALKER THEATRE COMPANY. |
| 2004 April/May |
DasSHOKU Hora!! Showing of work in progress, Dante's Fitzroy |
| 2004 March |
Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl toured to Canberra , National Multicultural Festival |
| 2004 January |
Saucy Cantina (with Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith), Hong Kong City Fringe Festival |
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| 2003 December |
Short Sharp Shift in collaboriaton with Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith |
| 2003 October |
in-compatibility (co-directed with Tony Yap) Presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival |
| 2003 September |
'24 hours' performance (directed by Stuart Lynch), Image of Asia Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2003 September |
Sunrise at midnight / Aνατολή τα μεσάνυχτα |
| 2003 July~August |
Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl 2003 Kultour - Fremantle, Adelaide, Tasmania, Lismore (funded by Australia Council) |
| 2003 July |
DasSHOKU Cultivation!! Collaboration with Theatre Gumbo & Matt Crosby
Osaka, Japan (Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange program) |
| 2003 March |
How could you even begin to understand? #25-28 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| 2003 February |
INORI-in-visible (solo performance) in the Traces Post Butoh Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| 2002 October |
How could you even begin to understand? #22-24 Sydney Carnivale 2002 |
| 2002 August |
How could you even begin to understand? #21 JADE 2002 Beyond Butoh, Tokyo |
| 2002 July |
The Witch Haven, released as Shinjuku Thief {Dorobo} |
| 2002 July |
Theatre Kantanka production season Inana's Descent, Masonic Center, Sydney |
| 2002 May |
How could you even begin to understand? #19 & 20 Australian dance week, Brisbane |
| 2002 May |
How could you even begin to understand? #14-18 collaboration with Anthony Pelchen and Hisako Tsuzuku, at Mass Gallery |
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2001 October
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Rice Paddies, Melbourne International Festival & Big West Festival |
| 2001 September |
Journey of the Northern Tiger Tour to Harping (China) with Wu-Lin Dance Theatre, |
| 2001 September |
How could you even begin to understand? # 9,10,11,12 in Mixed Metaphor, Dancehouse |
| 2001 May | Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl Adelaide Cabaret Festival |
| 2001 April |
How could you even begin to understand? # 8 North Melbourne Town Hall with Caligrapher Hisako Tsuzuku |
| 2001 April | Wimmera Sunrise |
| 2001 April | .such a fertile ground, collaboration performance, installation by Anthony Pelchen |
2001 February
~March | Performance in the theatre production Miss Tanaka with Handspan Visual Theatre, at the Playbox |
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| 2000 October | Performance in the theatre production Meat Party by Duong Le Quy, Playbox, Melbourne International Festival |
| 2000 August |
INORI-in-visible Solo performance in Mixed Metaphor season at Dancehouse |
| 2000 |
INORI-in-visible 5th year memorial of Hanshin Earthquake, Town Hall, Vega Hall, and Women's Centre in Takarazuka City |
| 2000 July |
Japan: Tradition in a Modern Age with Satsuki Odamura & Anne Norman, The Boite's Winter Festival, Melbourne Town Hall |
| 2000 May |
"Journey of the Northern Tiger", Blue Mountains `Songs of Wind Festival` & Canberra Choreographic Center with Wu-Lin Dance Theatre
Guest Performance in `LIVE ACTS` with Chunky Move at Blackbox, Melbourne, Next Wave Festival |
| 2000 April | Future Fusion, Solo performance as a part of Theatreworks events, Performance in Asian music and dance festival with Satsuki Odamura at the Studio, Sydney Opera House
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| 2000 March | How could you even begin to understand? # 7 with Tony Yap, Horsham Arts Festival
Performance in Moomba festival with company N.Y.I.D. |
| 2000 February | Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl returning season at Gasworks |
| 2000 January |
INORI-in-visible , Solo Performance in collaboration with Anthony Pelchen, Takarazuka City, Japan (International Cultural Exchange Grant by Arts Victoria) |
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| 1999 October |
How could you even begin to understand? #4,5,6 with Tony Yap at St. Stephen Church, Installation by Anthony Pelchen, Melbourne Fringe Festival
Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl at Czech House, Melbourne Fringe Festival |
| 1999 June | How could you even begin to understand? #3, with Tony Yap at Horsham Regional Art Gallery (Exhibition opening of Anthony Pelchen) |
| 1999 April - June | Journey of the northern tiger |
| 1999 Jan~May | Performances in 'Song of Wind Festival' (Blue Mountains) and Asian dance and music festival (Sydney)
Japanese Arts Festival (Glen Eira Arts Complex, Melbourne) with Satsuki Odamura
How could you even begin to understand? #2, with Tony Yap in ANTISTATIC99, Sydney
"Keiken no keiken" Solo performance at Kobe Union Church, Japan |
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| 1998 |
"Made to Move '98" Melbourne and Sydney. |
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Kagome with Nadoya Music and Dance Company |
| 1998 June |
Fleeting Moments, Athenaeum Theatre |
| 1998 March |
"Masterkey" by Mary Moore, Adelaide & Perth International festival |
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| 1997 Nov~Dec |
"Love Suicides" by John Romeril, Canberra Melbourne( Playbox) |
| 1997 June~July |
Amleto (Hamlet) with Theatro Dioniso & Tony Yap
Festivale dell Colline torinese & Portevenere Festivale, Italy (International Cultural Exchange Program from Arts Victoria) |
| 1997 April~May |
To Run-Sand by Alison Halit, Melbourne |
| 1997 February | Narcissus´ dream with Mixed Company, directed by Tony Yap |
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| 1996 | Kagome with Nadoya music & dance company |
| 1996 |
How could you even begin to understand?
Installation Performance with Lim Tzay Chuen at Experimenta Arts Festival |
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| 1995 |
Tokyo dasshoku Girl, The Stage, Melbourne |
| 1995 |
Performed with Soundstream at Tasmania University, Hobart ('95) |
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| 1994-96 |
Kagome with Nadoya Music and Dance Company |
| 1994 |
Crack with Butchaketa in Melbourne Fringe Festival |
| 1994 |
Dozan Solo performance, Castlemaine Festival |
| 1994 |
Tour with Hanayagi Genshu Human Theatre, Osaka, Yamagata, Japan |
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| 1993 |
Monogokoro Solo Performance, Melbourne Fringe Festival |
| 1993 |
Memoire de fruit, Japanese Theatre season with Harupin-Ha at Le Rond de Point Theatre, Paris |
| 1992 |
Ugetsu with DaiRakudakan |
| 1992 |
Toured with Japanese Women's Butoh group Toyokai, around North Japan and Genshu Hanayagi |
1992
1991
1990
1990
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Buddha's Banquet, Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
Sea Dappled Horse, Melbourne International Festival
Sea Dappled Horse, with DaiRakudakan, Tokyo
Ayakashi; with Toyokai, performed in Ueno, Tokyo, 1990 |
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