A special choreography for the Tenri University Creative Dance's annual performance

Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023

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19th Annual performance by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023

Yumi is invited as a guest choreographer to create a short work for the Creative Dance Club in Tenri University, Nara, Japan. The title: ”結” Connecting our Feeling ”

This is their 19th annual event for the Creative Dance Club in the Tenri university, who has been winning several dance awards in the Japanese university competitions.

17(Sun) Dec 2023

Venue:Nara Century Hall (Main Hall) なら100年会館 大ホール

Open :17 :30

Start: 18: 00

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Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to OzAsia Festival 28, 29 Oct 2023

Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to Adelaide, OZAsia Festival.

Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony.

A Proustian, unruly one-woman show, a work of pleasure and bite. — The Saturday Paper

Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony. 

Drawing inspiration from the historical Japanese female entertainer, Izumo no Okuni, initiator of Kabuki theatre in early 1600s Japan, Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is a visceral adventure – a transcendent feast for the senses. 

At the height of her creative prowess, Yumi Umiumare, Australia’s leading Butoh artist, unearths precious sacred female powers all too often buried throughout history. Yumi’s channelling of the multifaceted Okuni (who was so powerful, yet fragile and complex) culminates in a powerhouse solo performance that refuses to be defined by genre. Furious, funny, wistful, strange, and wild. Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI will carry you on a bizarre, unruly and heartfelt journey as only Yumi Umiumare can.

DETAIL AND BOOKING

CREATIVE TEAM

Created and Performed : Yumi Umiumare
Cinematographer/ Editor : Takeshi Kondo
Composer/ Sound Designer : Dan West
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson 
Dramaturg/ Maude Davey
Provocateur : Moira Finucane
Producer : Kath Papas productions 
Stage Manager: Celina Mack

Photographer: Vikk Shayen

Photo by Vikk Shayen

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Buried TeaBowl- OKUNI: Ready for Tour!

Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony. The work was premiered in May 2022 with sold out season and now ready for touring around the globe!


 
...the traditional Japanese tea ceremony a 21st century feminist spin. ... a Proustian, unruly one woman show, a work of pleasure and bite.
— The Saturday Paper
…so strange and grotesque, it almost defies description
— The Age
dense and visceral at the same time.
— Australian Stage

INSTALLATION - PERFORMANCE - TEA

ABOUT

Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI
is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shrine made Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.

At the height of her powers, Yumi Umiumare, Melbourne performance legend and Australia’s leading Butoh artist, unearths precious sacred female power which has been buried throughout history.Yumi channels the multifaceted character of Okuni who was so powerful, yet fragile and complex, to reawaken her spirit through excavating  these buried stories and myths.

CREATIVE TEAM

Created and Performed : Yumi Umiumare
Cinematographer/ Editor : Takeshi Kondo
Composer/ Sound Designer : Dan West
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson 
Dramaturg/ Maude Davey
Provocateur : Moira Finucane
Producer : Kath Papas productions 


Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Graphic design : Mariko Naito & Taka Takiguchi
Calligraphy: Hisako Tsuchiya
Publicity : Diana Wolfe


PHOTO CREDITS

Vikk Shayen
(Above)
Takeshi Kondo (Below)

The show was premiered at the BlackCat Gallery in May 2022.

SUPPORT & ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for the premiere season
The premiere season was supported by the Besen Family Foundation and BLACKCAT Gallery.


 
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Buried TeaBowl- OKUNI

Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shaman Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.


 
 

INSTALLATION - PERFORMANCE - TEA


Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI
is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shaman Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.

At the height of her powers, Yumi Umiumare, Melbourne performance legend and Australia’s leading Butoh artist, unearths precious sacred female power which has been buried throughout history.Yumi channels the multifaceted character of Okuni who was so powerful, yet fragile and complex, to reawaken her spirit through excavating  these buried stories and myths.


CREATIVE TEAM

Created and Performed : Yumi Umiumare
Cinematographer/ Editor : Takeshi Kondo
Composer/ Sound Designer : Dan West
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson 
Dramaturg/ Maude Davey
Provocateur : Moira Finucane
Producer : Kath Papas productions 


Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Graphic design : Mariko Naito
Calligraphy: Hisako Tsuchiya
Publicity : Diana Wolfe

The show was premiered at the BlackCat Gallery in May 2022.

Date/Time:
Thu 5 May 8:30pm – Preview
Fri 6 May 8pm – Opening
Sat 7 May 8pm
Sun 8 May 6pm

Wed 11 May 8pm
Thu 12 May 8pm
Fri 13 May 8pm
Sat 14 May 8pm
Sun 15 May 6pm


Duration: 80 mins


Tickets:
Full: $35 / Con: $25
Superiori-TEA: $50 incl. drink on arrival


Address:
BlackCat Gallery
420 Brunswick St
Fitzroy 3065
Vic Australia


PHOTO CREDITS
Vikk Shayen (Above)
Takeshi Kondo (Below)


SUPPORT & AKCNOWLEDGEMENTS
This season is supported by the Besen Family Foundation and BLACKCAT Gallery.


 
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Koto Transformation – Australis

Yumi is performing in the Koto Transformation – Australis features striking, expressive koto performance weaved through sensitively layered Japanese and Australian musical styles.

KOTO TRANSFORMATION -AUSTRALIS

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Koto Transformation – Australis features striking, expressive koto performance weaved through sensitively layered Japanese and Australian musical styles. This is a rare opportunity to see masterful musical collaborations that will leave you feeling touched and inspired.

The concert will debut enchanting pieces by leading Australian composers. As Japanese and global sounds blend into one another, enjoy the enriching cultural and musical exchange that characterises Odamura’s innovative career and unmistakable style.

Performers: Kazue Sawai (Japan), Satsuki Odamura, Brandon Lee, The Satsuki Odamura Koto Ensemble, Noriko Tsuboi (Thailand), Saeko Kitai (Singapore), Miyama McQueen Tokita (Japan), Hiroko Nagai (Philippines), Sandy Evans (saxophone), Yumi Umiumare (Butoh).

Details
1 June 2018, 7.30 PM
Meat Market – 5 Blackwood Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3051

Early Bird: $25 + BF
Doors: $35
Book via Eventbrite

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“What’s the…?” Pieces for small spaces at Lucy Guerin Inc.

Yumi was one of the 5 choreographers of the 5 days performance season of PIECES FOR SMALL SPACES at Lucy Guerin Inc, 13-17 Dec 2017.

 

PIECES FOR SMALL SPACES 2017, 13-17Dec 2017

5 CHOREOGRAPHERS, 5 NEW SHORT DANCE WORKS, 5 DAYS OF PERFORMANCES.
AMRITA HEPI | MARIAA RANDALL | NANA BILUS ABAFFY | RHEANNAN PORT | YUMI UMIUMARE

Pieces for Small Spaces is Lucy Guerin Inc’s annual in-house presenting season, offering a unique opportunity for five choreographers to challenge their practice, take risks and present a new short dance work as part of a professional performance season. This years program has been co-curated by Artistic Director Lucy Guerin, Resident Director Prue Lang and artist Mariaa Randall.

 

Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare 

In collaboration with the performers: Gregory Lorenzutti, Lilian Steiner, Leisa Prowd 

Music by Dan West and Murcof

 

Photograph by  Bryony Jackson

 

 

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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

Booking and Detail

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

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白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream

この作品はうみうまれの「White Day Dream 」シリーズ の一環で、過去2年メルボルン、マレーシアで創作され、今回はその日本版。10年前、脳出血で倒れたうみうまれの兄の姿からインスピレーションを得て創り始めた作品群で、2016年10月にはメルボルンでハンディキャップを追う人たちの演劇カンパニーと共に作品が発表された。

踊りにくぜ!!II #7
2月4日[土] 18:00(開場は開演の30分前)
イムズホール(イムズ9F)
〒810-0001 福岡市中央区天神1-7-11 イムズ9F
Tel: 092-733-2001
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白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream

この作品はうみうまれの「White Day Dream 」シリーズ の一環で、過去2年メルボルン、マレーシアで創作され、今回はその日本版。10年前、脳出血で倒れたうみうまれの兄の姿からインスピレーションを得て創り始めた作品群で、2016年10月にはメルボルンでハンディキャップを追う人たちの演劇カンパニーと共に作品が発表された。高次脳機能障害者である兄の記憶は、日々構築されては消されてゆき、夢うつつのようでも、ある瞬間シャープによみがえったりもする。私たちの現実も、時におぼろげで変わりやすく、妄想や夢想にすりかえられたりもする。たくさんの情報が洪水をおこしてゆく昨今、いま私たちの目の前で起きていることは本当に起きている現実なのか、それとも夢うつつの白昼夢をみているだけなのだろうか。夢とは?記憶とは?

日常生活に見え隠れする風景を採集し、「REAL現実」と「SUREAL超現実」を行き来する。
不思議をおどり、おどられ、おどろかれ。

構成・振付: ゆみうみうまれ
舞台美術: 武内貴子
オブジェ:渡邊瑠璃
音楽:Dan West
表紙写真(ゆみ):Gregory Lorenzutti
出演:安藤美由紀/小山田紘子/柴原あゆみ/高橋 創/武石夢香/中山将宙/福島由美

リージョナルダンス
札幌・仙台・福岡の各主催者が希望する振付家・演出家に依頼し、地元で募った出演者と新作を制作、当地で上演します。

JCDN ダンス作品クリエイション&全国巡回プロジェクト

JCDN 踊りに行くぜ批評

 

写真:藤本彦

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白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream

White Day Dream series explores the space between dream and reality. Like a dream itself, the work recalls subconscious emotions, where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected.This is a newly created 30min physical theatre work working with local Japanese visual artists and performers.

Shiroi Hiruno Yume~White Day Dream
as a part of Odori ni Ikuze!(We’re gonna go dancing) Festival
4th(Sat) Feb 2017
18:00 (open 17:30)
ISM Hall

1-7-11-11 ((F) Tenjin Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka, Japan

Direction and Choreography : Yumi Umiumare
Stage Design : Takako Takeuchi
Stage Art Object : Ruri Watanabe
Sound : Dan West
Photography (Yumi’s portrait ):Gregory Lorenzutti
Performer: Miyuki Ando, Hiroko Oyamada, Ayumi Shibahara,Sou Takahashi, Yumeka Takeishi, Masahiro Nakayama

Shiroi Hiruno Yume~White Day Dream is a part of Yumi Umiumare’s White Day Dream series, which has been shown in Malaysia(2015) and most recently through the collaboration with Weave Movement theatre(performers with and without disability).White Day Dream series explores the space between dream and reality. Like a dream itself, the work recalls subconscious emotions, where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected.

This is a newly created 30min physical theatre work working with local Japanese visual artists and performers.

Odorini Okuze II !! We’re gonna go dancing II!!is a national dance festival in Japan, run by JCDN (Japan Contemporary Dance Network).Yumi was appointed to be working as a choreographer in the regional dance program in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan, creating a new working with local artists who were chosen by the public audition.

Photo by Gen Fujimoto

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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

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White Day Dream - in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre

Presented by Weave Movement Theatre and Yumi Umiumare, White Day Dream is a unique fusion between Butoh and physical theatre performed by dancers with and without disability.

 
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WHITE DAY DREAM with Weave Movement Theatre 27 October 2016 – 6 November 2016preview: Thursday 27 October opening night: Friday 28 October Auslan interpreted performance: Sunday 6 November

Presented by Weave Movement Theatre and Yumi Umiumare, White Day Dreamis a unique fusion between Butoh and physical theatre performed by dancers with and without disability. The work moves between the surreal and absurd exploring universal human themes of memory and dreams, their fragility, transience and power. Like a dream itself, White Day Dream recalls subconscious emotions, where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected.

Direction and Choreography by Yumi Umiumare Composition and Sound Design by Dan West Stage and Costume Design by Jennifer Tran Lighting Design by Richard Vabre Media Art by Bambang N Karim Performed by Emma J Hawkins, Willow J Conway, Tim Crafti, David Baker, Trevor Dunn, Janice Florence, Melanie Keely, Greg Muir, Ryan New, Emma Norton, Leisa Prowd and Anthony Riddell

Weave Artistic Director Janice Florence

Vimeo Link

Photograph gallery

Photo by Paul Dunn

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Hipbone Sticking Out

Hipbone Sticking Out is a major theatre production made with the community of Roebourne, Western Australia, as part of the Yijala Yala Project. It premiered in Canberra as part of the Centenary of Canberra in 2013, and in 2014 it toured to Roebourne, Perth and Melbourne.

Hipbone Sticking Out is a major theatre production made with the community of Roebourne, Western Australia, as part of the Yijala Yala Project. It premiered in Canberra as part of the Centenary of Canberra in 2013, and in 2014 it toured to Roebourne, Perth and Melbourne.

 Hipbone Sticking Out is the culmination of over three years of creative collaboration between the community of Roebourne and Big hART, who over the last two years has brought Australian audiences to their feet with Namatjira. It forms part of the larger Yijala Yala Project, which is supported and encouraged by cultural leaders and the creative talent of this Pilbara community.

Hipbone is delivered by a dream cast including Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara), Lex Marinos (Greek/Australian), Maria Lurighi (Italian/Australian) and Yumi Umiumare (Japanese). The performance combines rich layered vocal harmonies, outrageous comic makeovers, messed up ensemble movement, striking digital imagery, sweeping design and freestyle costuming to create a cosmopolitan work from the edge of the world.

“Visually spectacular…extremely moving, relevant and highly innovative…” – Barefoot Review

“A juxtaposition of dark humour and poignant honesty…perfectly balanced…” – BMA Magazine

“Charged with enegery…Pulses with life…” – Filmalice


Creative Team

The team that created Ngapartji NgapartjiNamatjira, Nyuntu Ngali, StickybrickS and Junk Theory.

  • Writer/Director  Scott Rankin(Box the Pony, Ngapartji Ngapartji, Namatjira)
  • Associate Director  Luke Kernaghan(National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Shakespeare Company)
  • Musical Director  Nate Gilkes(Chants de Catacombes, Margaret Fulton: Queen of the Dessert)
  • Choreographer  Yumi Umiumare(Butoh Cabaret, Ngapartji Ngapartji, Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl)
  • Co-Choreographer  Adelina Larsson(QL2, Strut Dance Choreographic Centre)
  • Set Design  Genevieve Dugard(Belvoir, Opera Australia, Bangarra Dance Theatre)
  • Costume Design  Tess Schofield(Cloudstreet, The Diary of a Madman, The Sapphires)
  • Lighting Design  Matt Cox(Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney Theatre Company, Bell Shakespeare)
  • Sound Design  Jed Silver(Sydney Theatre Company, Belvoir, Circque Du Soleil)
  • AV/Video Design  Benjamin Ducroz(London International Animation Festival, Asian Art Biennale, MTV)

Performance Ensemble: Dudley Billing, Martin Crewes, Cho Cleary, Shareena Clanton, Sheridan Harbridge, David Hewitt, Trevor Jamieson, Maria Lurighi, Lex Marinos, Natalie O’Donnell, Yumi Umiumare, Michael Whalley, with performers from the Roebourne communityincluding Josie Alec, Patrick Churnside, and Allery Sandy.

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WHITE DAY DREAM 白昼夢 SERIES

A series of experimentations of visual poetries, film work and physical theatre, inspired by Yumi’s own experience of her brother who had a cerebral hemorrhage. Is it really happening right in front of us or are we daydreaming? What if our piled up memories were suddenly erased? Our memories are like a heritage but our brain could hemorrhage.

White Day Dream(白昼夢) series

Our memories are like a heritage but our brain could hemorrhage.

White Day Dream(白昼夢)is a series of experimentations of visual poetries, film work and physical theatre, inspired by Yumi’s own experience of her brother who had a cerebral hemorrhage. Like a dream itself, the work try to recalling viewer’s emotion and subconscious, and portrays physical and psycho-emotional realms where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected. Our idea of ‘reality’ blurs fluctuates and we try to substitute it with our own visionary fantasy and imagination.

Is it really happening right in front of us or are we daydreaming?

What if our piled up memories were suddenly erased?


PERFORMANCE HISTORY

Experiment #4
白い昼の夢(Japanese Title)White DayDream
Created and performed by local performers
at Odorini Ikuze Feitival (we are gonna dance festival) in Hakata, Japan,Feb 2017

Experiment#3
Collaboration with Weave Theatre (Oct-Dec 2015)The showing 16 December 2015

Experiment#2
FOLA
Performance @Arts House As a part of Festival of Live Art

Experiment#1
Feb 2014
White Day Dream Video works


Credits for the photography
Photo by Will Taylor and NObu from IETM, 2014, Artshouse.
Performance by Gregory Lorenzutti, Tim Crafti, Satori Fukuzimi and Yumi Umiumare



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In bed with... The elephant in the room

A work in progress performance devised by the creative team in collaboration with women from the sex industry, men and youth( platform youth theatre).Through the stories of local and traffic women we ask, what is the impact of the sex industry upon us all?

@ Lamama Courthouse Theatre

Project respect in collaboration with platform youth theatre

A work in progress performance devised by the creative team in collaboration with women from the sex industry, men and youth.Through the stories of local and traffic women we ask, what is the impact of the sex industry upon us all?

Direction: Catherine Simmonds
Choreography: Yumi Umiumare
Sound Design: Dan West

Performers from Platform youth theatre and Project respect


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Performanscape - Butoh at the You Yangs

A few images from a larger body of work "Performanscape" created for the Core program of the 2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale in collaboration with Vikk Shayen a Melbourne based Photographer. All performers were shot on location, nothing was added in post-production.

A few images from a larger body of work “Performanscape” created for the Core program of the 2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale in collaboration with Vikk Shayen a Melbourne based Photographer. All performers were shot on location, nothing was added in post-production.

Photography: Vikk Shayen

Performers: Sebastian Peters-Lazaro / Yumi Umiumare / Harrison Hall / Willow Conway / Helen Smith / David Kemp / Daniel Mounsey / Felix Ho / Fina Po / Takashi Takiguchi

Production: Jesse Rasmussen / Ellen Strasser

For more information and Print Sales please go to vikkshayen.com
ABOUT THE BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE
The Core Program is a curated exhibition of Australian and International artists representing some of the best and most innovative contemporary photographic practice. With a focus on new work and a diverse curatorial approach the Core Program is a prestigious exhibition program staged across eight unique heritage buildings in Ballarat, Victoria.

ABOUT PERFORMANSCAPE
PERFORMANSCAPE is a collaborative photographic project with various Australian performance artists and theatre makers. The work exposes the stunning landscapes found throughout Australia that remain hidden from those living in urban areas. It also draws attention to the diversity, craftsmanship and physical virtuosity of various Australian artists and designers.

This project was originally inspired by a pervasive cultural disconnection between city dwellers and the natural environment as well as the emergence of an increasing number of site–specific performances within the world of theatre. In these works I reintroduce the corporeal reality of a performers body into the genre of landscape photography, asking how we see a contemporary human body in relationship to the land. This series explores a personal attraction to moments, objects and relationships that make strange the mundane, that challenges our perceptions of reality and that highlight the unfamiliar in a world that feels increasingly known, categorised and accounted for. I hope the images will bring you to a space in reality where the beauty of the improbable can exist.

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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


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Talk You Me

Collaboration with Brunswick Women's Theatre, the project aims to provide a supportive, creative environment for all women, particularly women from Non-English Speaking backgrounds and other under represented groups, to explore the richness of their own lives through the use of theatre and performance skills.

When language is lost and new meanings sought, English becomes the second language and our human language is revived in an experimentation of movement, lyrics, rhythm and stories.

Artistic Director Catherine Simmonds in collaboration with

Yumi Umiumare- Choreography
Lynnelle Moran-Lyrics & Music
Mary Quinsacara-Rap & Rhythm
Riza Manalo-Multi Media
Yasmin Ferda Khan-Project Manager
Performed and co-devised by the women of Brunswick Women’s Theatre

The image photo by Eelin Cheah

Performance Dates
Thursday 10th November 1:30 pm
Visy Cares Learning Centre. 3-13 Hudson Circuit Meadow Heights
Friday 11th November 1:30 pm Kangan Batman TAFE Auditorium Pearcedale Parade BroadmeadowSaturday12th November 7:00pm
Glenroy Senior Citizens Centre 11 Cromwell St Glenroy

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BRUNSWICK WOMENS THEATRE – DISCOVERING THE NEED TO SPEAK AND SPEAKING THE UNSPOKEN

Brunswick Women’s Theatre aims to provide a supportive, creative environment for all women, particularly women from Non-English Speaking backgrounds and other under represented groups, to explore the richness of their own lives through the use of theatre skills, with the aim of developing empowerment through increased self esteem, enhanced social networks and a greater understanding of the personal and collective experiences of women. And through the fruition of these processes, to provide the community with performances that are not only expressive of the women in the group, but also of a high artistic quality.

The Intent of The Brunswick Women’s Theatre: There is no process of audition in BWT and performances do not rely on talent, but on the importance of the story to the group and the broader community. BWT is not a fixed group. With every new project women are sourced through community networking, assisting women from marginalised communities to enhance self esteem and relieve experiences of social isolation. Through public performances, Brunswick Women’s Theatre successfully promotes community understanding of such issues as displacement, trauma, discrimination and survival for culturally and linguistically diverse women. Brunswick Women’s Theatre 2011

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Not just my stories

Not Just My Story is a special opportunity for audiences to encounter the human face of compelling asylum seeker stories. Weaving together the moments, memories and voices of the performers, the work challenges the popular narrative of seeking asylum in Australia. Not Just My Story will open your heart to the potential of our shared humanity.

The Asylum Seeker Resource Centre presents Not Just My Story as part of the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival.

When do you tell your story and why? What happens to your sense of self when you’re under suspicion? Stories of persecution, family, resilience and love are explored by 30 asylum seekers through physical theatre, story telling, movement and music.

Directed by Catherine Simmonds
Choreography by Yumi Umiumare
Dramaturg by Arnold Zable
Sound design by Myles Mumford

Not Just My Story is a special opportunity for audiences to encounter the human face of compelling asylum seeker stories. Weaving together the moments, memories and voices of the performers, we challenge the popular narrative of seeking asylum in Australia. Not Just My Story will open your heart to the potential of our shared humanity.

When:Saturday May 14 2011 5:00 AM – Sunday May 15 2011 11:00 AMWhere:St. Martins Youth Arts Centre, 44 St. Martins Lane, South Yarra, VIC, 3141Contact:Asylum Seeker Resource Centre

 

This event is not organized by Amnesty International Australia but by the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre and all inquiries should be directed to them.

 

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“Not just my story” evolved in consultation with the 22 (protagonists) of JOAW.  “We feel so lucky to have been touched by the creative work but we need to give that opportunity to other people and we could help to open the door for new asylum seekers.”  The events that lead a person to be named as an “Asylum Seeker” are inevitably infused with tragedy. 

“Not just my story” will actively research the symbols, dreams and intimate details within the tragedy, with the aim to extract and portray the experiences that create universal resonance.  Our participant asylum seekers have largely been represented and judged within legal frameworks where they’ve had to prove their ‘truth’ time and time again. 

“Not just my story” aims to explore the vulnerabilities and contradictions that occur when telling a story, – what happens to ones sense of ‘truth’ when under suspicion?  In this project we will also emphasize the positive experiences and memories of our participants, for example the love stories, celebrations, and creative imagination of our participants, thus exploring the expression of the multidimensional person who hashumour, is a musician, actor, poet and dancer.  Our aim is to transmit a different image of asylum seekers neither just as ‘poor things’ or the nastier stereotype and to deconstruct the common media representation.  The ‘protagonists’ who were in JOAW also wish to investigate issues of cultural integration and settlement post “Permanent Residency” – “You get the visa and then you’re all alone.  I didn’t have work experience I needed to get a job. But I came from a country where there’s no technology, no cars, no basic stuff.”  “In Dandenong there is the perception that because Sudanese young men congregate together, that they are therefore a gang.  It’s important to combat those perceptions in the public, also in the police force where there’s a lot of racism”

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Ngapartji Ngapartji

Ngapartji Ngapartji was a community development and Indigenous language maintenance/revitalisation project produced by the Australian arts and social change company Big hART conducted in various locations across the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in Central Australia and in Alice Springs.

It’s a magical piece of theatre” – Sybil Nolan, Herald Sun
The most important event for local audiences to see this Festival” – Andi Moore, Artszine
It does honour to the festival that has presented it” – John Slavin, The Age
A pure gift” – Alison Croggon, Theatre Notes
An inclusive plea for understanding and justice” – Miriam Cosic, The Australian

Ngapartji Ngapartji was a community development and Indigenous language maintenance/revitalisation project produced by the Australian arts and social change company Big hARTconducted in various locations across the Anangu, Pitjantjatjara and Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands in Central Australia and in Alice Springs. The project ran from 2005 to 2010 with spin-off projects and related performances creating a strong legacy beyond this timeline. The project was structured around an experimental and reflexive arts-based community development program which included the creation of an online interactive language and culture learning website by Pitjantjatjara-speaking young people,  elders and linguists; a bilingual touring theatre work and a media campaign promoting the development of an Australian national Indigenous language policy.


Ngapartji Ngapartji  wikipedia

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Once upon time at midnight ある真夜中に

Once Upon a Midnight is a Japanese/Australian rock musical. The script is bilingual, featuring seven Japanese performers and seven Australian performers. It follows the adventures of Kelsey Clarke and the warrior doll Nozomi as they journey to the Underground to liberate the monster world from the mysterious Angelica.

Once Upon a Midnight is a Japanese/Australian rock musical. The script is bilingual, featuring seven Japanese performers and seven Australian performers. It follows the adventures of Kelsey Clarke and the warrior doll Nozomi as they journey to the Underground to liberate the monster world from the mysterious Angelica.

The show was first performed at the Kijimuna Festival in Okinawa, Japan, and later appeared as a headline act at the OzAsia Festival in Adelaide, South Australia. It was a collaboration between the Kijimuna Festival, Flinders University Drama Centre and Adelaide Festival Centre.

Synopsis

Kelsey Clarke is very afraid. She is afraid of germs, she is afraid of traffic…even the toaster makes her feel very afraid.

Deep in the Underground, the monsters are afraid too. Angelica, the Blue Fairy, has flown into their world. No longer will the monsters be allowed to terrify unsuspecting children, no longer can they drink blood and dance the night away.

Powerless to confront Angelica, the Tengu — Lord of the Underground — has no choice but to find the world’s most frightened child and teach her to confront her fear. For timid Kelsey, this means putting on her best cardigan and plunging headlong into the monster kingdom — from murky swamps to haunted Ghost Roads!

With an enchanted doll and a vegetarian vampire to guide her, Kelsey touches her darker side. But is becoming her own nightmare any better than cowering alone under blankets? Can Kelsey summon the courage to find her true self, face her demons and stand against the magical Angelica? Or will the sun rise forever on a future where only the fearful survive?

Production credits

Publicity photo: Yoshiki, Ryan and Tweetles

Director: Catherine Fitzgerald
Choreography: Yumi Umiumare
Assistant Director: Momoko Iwaki
Costume Design: Oka Kazuyo

Dramaturg: Julie Holledge
Set Design: Naomi Steel
Design consultant: Mary Moore
Stills Photographer: Tomoaki Kudaka
Music consultant: Stuart Day
Sword Fight Choreographer: Tuyoshi China

Lighting Designer (Japan): Yoshimi Sakamoto
Lighting Designer (Australia): Fred Schultz
Stage Manager (Australia): Maj Green
Production Manager (Australia): Andrew Bailey
Set Construction (Australia): Glen Finch

Book Translation (to Japanese): Ken Yamamura with Yumi Umiumare Lyrics Translation (to Japanese): Ken Yamamura, Yumi Umiumare, Keiko Yamaguchi, and Mai Kakimoto

Produced by Hisashi Shimoyama, Artistic Director of the Kijimuna Festival, and Professor Julie Holledge, Flinders University Drama Centre.

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