Wanna Be a Rabbit? by Weave Movement Theatre is now postponed till 2022
Wanna Be a Rabbit? the show by Weave Movement Theatre directed by Yumi Umiumare is postponed till 2022
A dynamic collaboration between Yumi Umiumare and Weave Movement Theatre. Highly visual physical theatre with a sense of the ridiculous.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the show is postponed till 2021.
Wannabe a Rabbit? is the outcome of the unique chemistry between Yumi Umiumare, international 'Butoh Cabaret' artist and Weave, a company of disabled and non-disabled performers.
Through Butoh-esque absurdity, highly visual physical theatre, text and startling installations, the work humorously reverses societal perceptions. It probes the human compulsion to categorise and judge. What are you? A wife, a worker, disabled, a refugee, black/white, an Aussie oi oi, a rabbit?
CREDITS
Director/Choreographer : Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator/Performers:
David Baker, Willow J Conway, Trevor Dunn, Janice Florence,
Zya Kane, Greg Muir, Emma Norton, Anthony Riddell, Takashi Takiguchi
Producer: Janice Florence (Artistic Director, Weave Movement Theatre)
Sound Designer : Dan West
Installation artist: Pimpisa Tinpalet
Costume designers: Joe Noonan & Brynna Lowen
Lighting designer: Rachel Lee
Videographer : Tan Kang Wei
Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Outside eye: Maude Davey
Photos (below) by Paul Dunn
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Normal 2 Feb- 23 May 2021
BUTOH OUT! 2021NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre art-form of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal?
BUTOH OUT! 2021
NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre artform of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal? Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh has always been associated with the marginalised, embracing the abnormal, odd, quirky & the deviant. One of the first Butoh performances so shocked its Japanese audiences that it was forced to go underground, yet now it is accepted as an innovative art form. Conversely, what we used to think as ‘normal’ is no longer so. Instead, the term, 'new normal' exists, which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. We hang onto a semblance of normalcy like a security blanket - but why?
ButohOUT! 2021 offers 5 public workshops including one for children and seniors, a performance-making laboratory, a forum and 2 performance presentations, one at Dancehouse and Abbotsford Convent.
WORKSHOPS
@ Abbotsford Convent
★2(Tue)-23(Tue) Feb 2021
Weekly workshop
Is Butoh Abnormal?
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March 2021
Weekend workshop
What is normal in Butoh?
★27(Sat) March 2021
Family and Kids workshop
Peek-A- Butoh
(FREE)
★27(Sat) March 2021
Senior workshop
You Don't Think You Can Dance?
| For 50+, 60+, 70+ or beyond
(FREE)
★ 24(Sat) 25 (Sun) April 2021
Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
What is our New Ab/Normal?
PERFORMANCE
★25-28 March 2021
Colour-Fool (4 shows only!!)
@Dancehouse
Detail
★20-23 May 2021
Odd Hours (4 shows only!!)
@Abbortsford Convent
Detail
About
ButohOUT! Festival is An Artists-led, inclusive festival that breaks expectations and boundaries. It invites diverse arts and non-arts communities to engage with the profound internationally-acclaimed art form of Butoh. ButohOUT! also engages with international Butoh dancers to interact with local Australian practitioners from new initiates to established performers in an open exchange of expertise and performance.
Creative team of ButohOUT! 2021
Director & Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Producer: Takashi Takiguchi
Emma Bathgate(Voice)
Jacqui Stockdale(Visual arts)
Dan West and Ai Yamamoto (Sound)
Rachel Lee(Lighting)
Monika Benova(Graphic Design)
Performers:
Kiki Ando, Emma Bathgate, David Blom, Jessie Ngaio, Pauline Sherlock, Tomoko Yamasaki, Takashi Takiguchi, Yumi Umiumare and ButohOUT! Ensemble
Wanna Be a Rabbit? with Weave Movement Theatre
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:Will I ever be perfect? Am I invisible? How do I get out of here? My sheets need a wash. It’s dark. Is that a rabbit? The show is going to be premiered 2020.
The Performance season in June 2020 were both Cancelled Due to the COVID-19.
new dates is going to be announced soon.
Will I ever be perfect? Am I invisible? How do I get out of here? My sheets need a wash. It’s dark. Is that a rabbit?
Wannabe a Rabbit? is directed and Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre. A fusion of Butoh and Physical Theatre, the work moved between the surreal and absurd; humorously reversing the perceptions of difference.
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:
Surfacing in reaction to the atrocities caused post World War II and initially referred to as the ‘Dance of Darkness’, Butoh converges themes of naturism and humanism. ButohOUT! intends to activate the spirit of Butoh through the local and national, contemporary dance community.
“Their strength lies in the performers’ ability to make the banal magical” – The Age
(review for Weave’s previous work)
Credit
Director: Yumi Umiumare
in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre
Producer: Janice Florence
Sound designer: Dan West
Costume designer: Matilda Woodroofe
Lighting designer: Jennifer Hector
Installation artist: Pimpisa Tinpalit
from ButohOUT!2018 photo by Mifumi Obata
Luminous Luna
Exploring femininity in both personal and cultural cliché ways, Luminous Lunas celebrates the beauty of feminine strength- from the softer essence of beauty, crazy pop icons, surreal and mystical characters to the mundane everyday housewives.
Light in Winter Festival at Fed Square, Melbourne (June, 2015)
Director/Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Set and costume Designer: Jennifer Tran
Performer: Sophia Constantine, Suhasini Seelin, Felix Ching Ching Ho
Composer: Dan West
Production Manager : Jerilee Cardoz
Exploring femininity in both personal and cultural cliché ways, Luminous Lunas celebrates the beauty of feminine strength- from the softer essence of beauty, crazy pop icons, surreal and mystical characters to the mundane everyday housewives. Through roving, statute-like stillness and performance installations in public spaces, three performers create strong visual impacts, surreal atmosphere, wearing luminous costumes with transformable props in the federation square in Melbourne.
Photo by Wilari Tedjosiswoyo and Yumi Umiumare
peek-A-Butoh, Melbourne Fringe 2017
Step inside the playful and imaginative world of Japanese Butoh. With a smiling shaman as your guide, you’ll jump headfirst into a world of transformation and shape-shifting, unleashing your inner animal, object, kook and spook.
Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and ArtPlay
Created by: Yumi Umiumare
Synopsis
Step inside the playful and imaginative world of Japanese Butoh. With a smiling shaman as your guide, you’ll jump headfirst into a world of transformation and shape-shifting, unleashing your inner animal, object, kook and spook. Everyday games like peekaboo and hide and seek are given new life and new meaning under the watchful eye and guiding hand of acclaimed Butoh master Yumi Umiumare, who has been creating her distinctive style of work for over 25 years. It’s a mini afternoon of kooky dance, discovery and play as only Fringe can be.
All children must be accompanied by an adult
September 2017
