ButohOUT! 2020
Celebrating its third year, ButohOUT! 2020 offers five workshops and two performance seasons exploring the artistic theme of ‘Primal Colour.’ In earlier expressions of Butoh, dancers typically wore white body paint, believed to 'erase' the performers excessive and artificial layers to ‘de-identify’ them.
IN LIGHT OF RECENT UNFORSEEN EVENTS LINKING TO COVID-19, WE REGRET THAT THE 2020 BUTOHOUT! SEASON HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EVERYONE’S SAFETY AND SANITY. WE HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT US AS NEXT SEASON.
Butoh OUT 2019
ButohOUT! 2019 is a festival to celebrate creative communities in Australia and beyond through the profound performance art medium of Butoh. 4 public workshops and 2 weeks performance season are held at Abbotsford Convent.
Evocation of Butoh
Evocation of Butoh is a mini festival with the aim of activating artistic and cultural exchange between international artists and local arts communities in Melbourne through the performance art of Butoh.
EVOCATION OF BUTOH
PERFORMANCE,FORUM and WORKSHOP
9-20 MARCH 2017
Evocation of Butoh is a mini festival with the aim of activating artistic and cultural exchange between international artists and local arts communities in Melbourne through the performance art of Butoh. This genre of dance/theatre was started in the late 50’s in Japan in the aftermath of WWII. Butoh, originally called the ‘Dance of Darkness’, finds expression through dance and movement for the visible and invisible states of living. This is a unique opportunity for audiences in Melbourne to experience sublime works by local and international practitioners: a diaspora of artists who left their countries of origin to extend their practice in contemporary society.Intensive workshops, a public forum and an artists’ talk will also be presented to stimulate discourse around what Butoh is now in Australia.
PERFORMANCE& FORUM @ Lamama Courthouse, as a part of Asia TOPA
Program1
9(Thur) and 10(Fri) 7:30pm March 2017
Tony Yap (Malaysia/Australia)
Yumi Umiumare (Japan/ Australia)
Helen Smith (England/ Australia)
Program2
11(Sat) 7:30pm, 12(Sun) 5pm, March 2017
Yumiko Yoshioka (Japan/Germany)
and pre-show performance by Alana Hoggart, Miguel Camarero
PUBLIC FORUM
What is Butoh now in Australia?
12(Sun) 12-3pm March 2017
Free Admission
WORKSHOP
WORKSHOP1
Butoh 3 nights Intensive workshop
by Yumiko Yoshioka
14(Tue), 15(Wed) ,16(Thur) March
6:00pm – 9:00pm@Abbotsford Convent
$250 (Full) & $230 (Concession)
WORKSHOP 2
Residential workshop in Stuart Mill
by Yumiko Yoshioka
facilitated by Yumi Umiumare
17th (Fri) March to 20th (Mon) March
@ Camp Seed
$450 (Full) & $420 (Concession)
Workshop inquiry : info@takashitakiguchi.com
Butoh OUT 2018
ButohOUT! is a newly initiated festival activating local communities in Victoria by fostering artistic and cultural exchanges through the powerful performing arts medium Butoh. Butoh is widely known as a Japanese theatre and dance art form but in this festival, artists will integrate it in the context of uniquely Australian culture, history and landscapes.
Transmute Butoh Caberet: University of Melbourne
Melbourne’s legendary Yumi Umiumare, leads student performers in the creation of a playful, transgressive and hyper-energized hybrid. Combining the physical extremes of butoh and the emotional intimacy of cabaret, Trans-Mute will reframe everyday stories as strange outlandish songs and dances.
Melbourne’s legendary Yumi Umiumare, leads student performers in the creation of a playful, transgressive and hyper-energized hybrid. Combining the physical extremes of butoh and the emotional intimacy of cabaret, Trans-Mute will reframe everyday stories as strange outlandish songs and dances.
Director/Devisor – Yumi Umiumare
Dramaturg – Tom Gutteridge
Designer – Ellen Strasser
Assistant Director/Sound Designer – Felix Ho
Lighting Designer – Matthew Seah
Lighting Mentor – Richard Vabre
Photography: Vikk Shayen
The Burlesque Hour
From the frenetic house of Finucane & Smith - internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre Moira Finucane and Patrick White Award winner Jackie Smith - the work that has created an international storm of sell out critical acclaim and won 6 Australian theatre awards for its provocative and astonishing images of gender, sexuality, power and desire.
From the frenetic house of Finucane & Smith – internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre Moira Finucane and Patrick White Award winner Jackie Smith – the work that has created an international storm of sell out critical acclaim and won 6 Australian theatre awards for its provocative and astonishing images of gender, sexuality, power and desire.
The Burlesque Hour… SIZZLES! With a mind-cracking mixture of the old, the new, the unexpected, in the world’s most astonishing, most sizzling salon of showgirls with very sharp teeth!
Artistic & Performance Directors! Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith
Creators of the Burlesques! Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith
Azaria Universe
Yumi Umiumare
(Kitty’s World and Hebi Onna created in collaboration with Finucane and Smith)
Deluxe Designers! Sensational Set by Adrienne Chisholm
Luxe Lights by Marko Respondeck
Curvaceous and Crazy Costumes by David Anderson
Sonic Seamstress Darrin Verhagen
HOT ON THE HEELS OF A WORLD TOUR, THE SMASH HIT OF FESTIVALS EVERYWHERE RETURNED TO MELBOURNE FOR 4 SIZZLING SUMMER NIGHTS!
More information : http://www.moirafinucane.com/shows.html
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!
Creating a frenzy amongst critics and audiences around the world, from Tokyo to Trieste, London to Ljubljana, Edinburgh to Croatia to the Opera House and beyond; The Burlesque Hour mixes vaudeville and variety, circus and sideshow, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music hall, monologue and mayhem in a wild ride that hijacks Burlesque, explodes expectations, and delights and disturbs long after the carnival is over.
SELECTED REVIEWS
“Dramatic, original, effective, breathtaking … beyond genre: the cabaret variety set on fire, definitively”
Vecer News, Slovenia
“I thought I would have nightmare after seeing this show but it was a fantastically indecent and breath-taking night!! In this political time, this indecent and crazy event was so perfect to have at the old warehouse in Yokohama, where it was as if “evil place” in a famous action movie popped up for one night only”
Wander Distance Magazine Yokohama
“Intensive and hairsplitting physicality… it opens up a whole new world, a world of the surreal”
Dnevnik News, Slovenia
“Sexually emancipated, hilarious and kerosene fuelled… gender bending, bodice ripping, stereotype trashing, neo-circus cabaret madness”
Metro UK
“Every single artiste is wickedly entertaining, yet hugely different… saucier than your Edinburgh chippy … grotesquely addictive … with more than a tablespoonful of gothic sex appeal…”
Three Weeks UK
“Unmissable…The minds that inspired it are as sexy as the bodies that perform it… comic, erotic, dynamic, acrobatic… The Burlesque Hour is a night to remember and will retain its power to delight and disturb long after the carnival is over”
The Sunday Age
“From the sublime to the subversive, the hot to the hilarious… outrageous and unforgettable”
The Times, London
“… it was a fantastically indecent and breath-taking night!! Big applause!!”
Wander Distance Yokohama, Japan
“Prepare to be shocked and overwhelmed. Expect no less. Experience so much more. The Burlesque Hour is not for the faint-hearted, the queasy or the conservative. But even these types have to appreciate the entertaining spectacle for what it is. It’s difficult not to. These showgirls are polished and prepared to dazzle, from their go-go dancing routines right through to mad moments of nudity. Jaw dropping, feisty, seductive, dynamic. I suggest you grab a drink, sit back and allow yourself to be thrilled. Unmissable.”
Edinburgh Guide 2005
“The Burlesque Hour is a series of set pieces-lip-synching mimes, dances and commando acts- by an unholy trinity of fatale feministas : Moira Finucane, Yumi Umiumare and Azaria Universe.
Umiumare has a crazy sense of humour and an absolute devotion to her distinctive style of Butoh cabaret.”
Chris Boyd – Herald Sun, 19 July 2004
“The Burlesque Hour is succession of delights; short pieces devised and performed with enormous wit, style, intelligence and originality… ”
“…Umiumare is also funny as a schoolgirl stripper shedding multiple pairs of knickers, and starkly impressive, revealing and ascetic black costume beneath a rich kimono…”
Bill Perrett – The Sunday Age,18, July 2004
“Pain and pleasure in the art of the tease”
“The Burlesque Hour …, involves pungent commentary on gender, power, violence and desire.”
“Yumi Umiumare ..takes the pop culture icon Hello Kitty and makes a notion of demonstrating the evil flipside of this cute, demure creature which happens to lack a mouth..”
Thuy On The Australian, 19 July 2004
“Moira Finucane, Azaria Universe and Yumi Umiumare deliver powerful performance, drawing on contemporary popular song from the schmaltzy sob of love-gone-wrong, to hard-core thrash..” “Umiumare always pushes the limit when she perform…her most profound act was a sustained solo cloaked in orientalism, her body concealed then tantalisingly revealed..”
Hilary Crampton – The Age, 19 July 2004
In-compatibility
In-compatibility is a powerful new dance performance which creates a unique devotional space that is a synthesis of Asian shamanistic trance-dance, Butoh and contemporary western traditions. This pushes the boundaries of Yap and Umiumare's ongoing investigation into the separate but interdependent natures of yin and yang - of moments compatibility and incompatibility.
Melbourne based internationally acclaimed dancers/ choreographers Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare, are launching their company “-“. and premiere a season of their new work, in-compatibility at this year’s Melbourne Festival 2003.
In-compatibility is a powerful new dance performance which creates a unique devotional space that is a synthesis of Asian shamanistic trance-dance, Butoh and contemporary western traditions. This pushes the boundaries of Yap and Umiumare’s ongoing investigation into the separate but interdependent natures of yin and yang – of moments compatibility and incompatibility.
This arresting new work features an original live musical score composed and performed by this years Green Room awards winners Madeleine Flynn and Tim Humphrey, with a visual realization by acclaimed stage designer Michael Pearce.
Yap and Umiumare bring in three other performers to upset and stretch the boundaries of their well established duo working relationship in ongoing How could you even begin to understand series.
Yap and Umiumare are leading lights in the Butoh dance community, frequently invited to participate in international festivals and conferences. Last year they featured at the Beyond Butoh Program at the JADE Festival in Tokyo, where their performance was greeted with great enthusiasm from critics and audience.
The premiere of this piece will further challenge the dance community’s perception of what is beyond Butoh.
Choreography Yumi Umiumare & Tony Yap
Performers Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap, Tom Davies, Nic Hempel, Meredith Elton
Composition / Music Tim Humphrey composer/musician & Madeleine Flynn
Set & costume design Michael Pearce
PERFORMANCE TIMELINE
2003 October – Presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
REVIEWS
“In a stunningly compelling performance, they shift from one meditative state to another, the dynamics changing from quiet composure to frenzied ecstasy”.
THE AGE, MELBOURNE
