Tea Break
TEA BREAK is a new full-length solo work in development, combining dance, spoken words and multimedia. Blending Butoh, Tea and visual theatre, Yumi explores the space between rituals and daily routines of drinking tea.
TEA BREAK is going to be a Yumi's new full-length work, combining dance, spoken words and multimedia. Blending Butoh, Tea and visual theatre, Yumi explores the space between rituals and daily routines of drinking tea. She shifts into the abstract and experiments with the forms and structures of tea ceremony, moving from the sedate to the dramatic, real to surreal, and playful to macabre, a journey into life and death, evoking the spirit of Butoh.
TeaBreak, 30 min solo dance version, was shown in March 2017, as a part of Evocation of Butoh in Asia TOPA, and creative next development for visual elements will be in 2018.
To find out more about showing this work, get in touch with yumi.
Feedback quotes from
the creative development
“Grounded and surreal, totally unpredictable, with some extraordinary physicality in the movements. I loved the humour and the tension and the danger and the energy and how the piece was so utterly unpredictable. A real pleasure and inspiration”
“Cup cracks, composure crumbles in a brush stroke of sickly green”
“Witnessing Yumi's ongoing tea ceremony developments was wonderful, challenging, dangerous and exciting. …Enjoyed the subversion of the formal ceremony and the domestic connotations; and how the transformations reconnected to the elemental, natural, spiritual and physical.“
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
EnTrance
EnTrance is a critically acclaimed full-length solo work with multimedia and installations within the metaphor of ‘the near shore’ of life and ‘the far shore’ of death. Award-winning dancer Yumi Umiumare performs the mystical conundrum of ‘the space between’ amid the hubbub of our city-life. ‘EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.’ Canberra Times 2011
EnTrance is a critically acclaimed full-length solo work with multimedia and installations within the metaphor of ‘the near shore’ of life and ‘the far shore’ of death. Using electronic costumes – practical television mask, fairy light fabric – karaoke and the decay to nothingness of the flour-encrusted butoh body, award-winning dancer Yumi Umiumare performs the mystical conundrum of ‘the space between’ amid the hubbub of our city-life.
White, vaulting installation, splits the space into the real and imagined, where Umiumare can play with the audience in fun Karaoke near-space or recede through the porous curtain to the far, into the psychological claustrophobia of mirrored city-scapes where full-wall media projections crowd.
Umiumare performs six seamless scenes exploring the personal and universal; like cultural distinctions of crying, depersonalisation in the metropolis, public/personal identity and transcending through death. The soundscape of the city isolates the living, accompanies the dead. Entrance assembles award-winning collaborators, Moira Finucane, Bambang Nurcahyadi, Naomi Ota and Ian Kitney and was itself nominated for a Green Room Award. EnTrance is the culmination of Umiumare’s collaborations, a diva focusing her powers for audiences to share in transcendence.
Credits
Created and performed by Yumi Umiumare
Dramaturge Moira Finuicane
Media Artist Bambang Nurcahyadi Karim
Installation Artist Naomi Ota
Sound Designer Ian Kitney
Costume Designer David Anderson
Lighting Designer Kerry Ireland
Performance History
April 2012 Performance Space season in Sydney
June /July 2011 The Street Theatre, Canberra
October 2010 NORPA (Lismore) & Brisbane
supported by Kultour’s 2010 Strategc initiatives
October 2009 OzAsia Festival
Aug – Sep 2009 Premiere in Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
TECHNICAL SPECS
Please click here for technical specification and download the document
Please click here for En Trance Plan Set
Photo by Jeff Busby and Heidrun Lohr
Reviews
“..a mystical collision of butoh and theatre.”
“EnTrance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by irresistible logic of dreams.”
The Age
“All the world’s experiences, on a stage”
“she carries her audience on a journey through life, life after death, mental despair, physical delight, meditative sequences, cabaret breakouts, sweet sadness and ghoulish madness”
Jill Sykes (Review Link)
“..an Impassioned and beautiful piece, constantly rich and surprising in its emotional range, and finally very moving.”
The Australian
” Yumi Umiumare is a living treasure””Her solo show EnTrance delights and disturbs with its compelling blend of movement, dialogue and music. Movements of joy and comedy are counterpoint for the grotesque tradition of butoh.
Herald Sun
“..a mystical collision of butoh and theatre.”
“EnTrance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by irresistible logic of dreams.”
The Age
“.. challenging, moving, and the kind of theatre experience you rave to your friends about. Australia is fortunate to have such a talent as hers enriching our dance culture.”
Arts Hub
“…gut-felt provocation of passion and emotion.”
Aussie theatre
“This is one of the standouts of OzAsia (festival)”
Independent Weekly Adelaide
” a fascinating production that will move you emotionally and engage you intellectually”
GLAM ADELAIDE
“EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.”
“Confronting, evocative and artistically innovative”
Canberra Times
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ZeroZero
ZeroZero was the second in a triptych and has premiered in Melbourne, in Feb 2013. Collaborated between Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, ZeroZero explores the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. It was presented in Bogota, Columbia (2014) and Melbourne International festival (2014).
ZeroZero was the second in a triptych and has premiered in Melbourne, in Feb 2013. Collaborated between Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, ZeroZero explores the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. It was presented in Bogota, Columbia (2014) and Melbourne International festival (2014).
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2014 Melbourne International Festival as a part of Dance Territories
2013 EATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia
2013 Melbourne Season at fortyfivedownstairs
2011 Sydney Season as a part of Return to Sender at PerformanceSpace
2010 Tour to Arts Island Festival (Indonesia)and Melaka Festival(Malaysia)
2010 Initial creative development in Japan(Koyasan, Osore zan) and Malaysia(Melaka)
Reviews
‘..remarkable interplay of difference and harmony, touching, as their titles suggest, upon the sacred, the profane, rituals and the notion of ‘now.’ Realtime 2014
‘…strong, powerful and incredibly moving’
Arts Hub on ZeroZero at ‘Return to Sender’, Performance Space, November 2011
Photos by Heidrun Lohr
PERFORMERS
Creators/dance performers: Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumarec
Creator/media, sound, light performer: Matthew Gingold
Additional design and production realisation: Paula van Beek
Producer: Kath Papas Productions
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ゼロゼロ ZeroZero
１９９６年からコラボレーションを続けているダンスパートナー、トニー・ヤップとのデュオ作品。「ZeroZero」は３年間のデベロップメント期間をか けて制作され、それぞれの故郷の地マレーシアと日本という自分たちのルーツを探る過程の中で、マラッカ（マレーシア）のタオイズム（道教）のお寺や洞窟、 日本の高野山や恐山も訪れ創作された
１９９６年からコラボレーションを続けているダンスパートナー、トニー・ヤップとのデュオ作品。「ZeroZero」は３年間のデベロップメント期間をか けて制作され、それぞれの故郷の地マレーシアと日本という自分たちのルーツを探る過程の中で、マラッカ（マレーシア）のタオイズム（道教）のお寺や洞窟、 日本の高野山や恐山も訪れ創作された。作品ではvisibility and invisibility(目に見えるものと見えないもの)や「ゼロ」状態がテーマとなっており、ヤップ／うみうまれペア特有のダンスを通して、観客を陶 酔と変性意識の中に導いてゆく。
批評抜粋
“力強くパワフルでとても感動的だ” Arts Hub(ウェブサイト・マガジン)
“瞑想的なフレームワークの中で、ゼロ的な空間を、それぞれの独特な世界から表現してゆくヤップとうみうまれのスタイルはとても魅力的だ。”（The AGE エイジ・メルボルン新聞）
公演記録
TimePlace
2014年メルボルン国際フェスティバル参加、再演
2013年メルボルン初演、その後コロンビアへ公演ツアー
メディア・アーティスト、マシュー・ギンゴールドの映像とサウンドデザインを加え、そのトランス的なダンスとテクノロジーとのコンビネーションに好評を博した
2011年シドニー公演
2010年マッラカ・フェスティバル（マレーシア）参加
アーツアイランド・フェスティバル（インドネシア東ジャワ地方）参加
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
E-motion in motion
In collaboration with Indonesian Australian media artist Bambang Nurcahyadi to experiment and create visual poetries- rich tapestry and narratives through ‘e-motion tracking’ process, dividing into different chapters. The audience/viewer’s interactions will be also tested in the process to add another layer that provokes the their expressions and emotion.
This is a project in development, collaborated with media artist Bambang N Karim, to experiment and create visual poetries- rich tapestry and narratives through ‘e-motion tracking’ process, dividing into different chapters. The audience/viewer’s interactions will be also tested in the process to add another layer that provokes the their expressions and emotion.
The juxtapositions of body and landscape are portrayed through digital moving images .It was originally coming from a Japanese ancient belief of Life and Death. In the world of ‘after-death’, the whole world exists in reverse from the world of the living. It was also to use the metaphor of my daily experiences of living in Australia as the ‘reverse-world’ from Japan, searching own cultural identities. A body interacts with a digital image of body/multiple bodies-digital images appear to enter and exit from the real-time body. The effect creates an eerie world as if spirits are jumping in and out of real-time performing body. Digital images of multiple faces also explored and it provokes my question about our identities-who are we? Where are we coming from?
DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
2012 Melbourne University Student workshop
George Patton Gallery for a showing
2009 A studio Residency, Metro ScreenSydney
エントランス ENTRANCE
うみうまれのソロダンス代表作。２００９年にメルボルン、モルトハウス劇場でプレミア公演、以後アデレード、キャンベラ、シドニー、クイーンズランドで公演ツアーをした。舞踏、キャバレエ、トランスダンスにコンテンポラリーダンスという４つの影響されたアートフォームをもとに集大成されたマルチメディアとダンスの融合した作品。
うみうまれのソロダンス代表作。２００９年にメルボルン、モルトハウス劇場でプレミア公演、以後アデレード、キャンベラ、シドニー、クイーンズランドで公演ツアーをした。舞踏、キャバレエ、トランスダンスにコンテンポラリーダンスという４つの影響されたアートフォームをもとに集大成されたマルチメディアとダンスの融合した作品となっている。メルボルン在住日本人ヴィジュアルアーティスト、太田奈穂美の繊細な舞台美術に、シドニー在住インドネシアンアーティスト、バンバン・ヌチャヤディのハイテク映像が加わり 視覚的にも色彩豊かな作品で、新聞批評、雑誌などで好評を得た。
批評抜粋
“舞踏と演劇が摩訶不思議に出くわしたような作品だ。（中略）エントランスは非常に魅力的な夢の物語が、音楽、セリフ、視覚的イメージや動きの素晴らしい融合によって、素晴らしく解きほぐされて行くようだ。” The Age 新聞
“エントランスは私たちのハート,ボディと心を開いてくれ、人間の本質的なスピリットを変容してくれるかのようだ。” Canberra Times
公演記録
TimePlace
2012年Performance Space シドニー
2011年The Street Theatre キャンベラ
2010年NORPA (Lismore) リズモア クイーンズランド
2009年OzAsia フェスティバル アデレード
プレミア公演、Malthouse Theatre メルボルン
ディス・オリエンタル DIS-ORIENTAL
ダンス・ソロ小作品。オリエンタル（Oriental)でありながら、方向がわからなくなって混乱する(ディスオリエントーDisorient)ことをタイトルでもじり、自らの移民生活をメタファーに創った作品。 日常品を使って非日常である現実を表現した動きは、コミカルで抽象的
ダンス・ソロ小作品。オリエンタル（Oriental)でありながら、方向がわからなくなって混乱する(ディスオリエントーDisorient)ことをタイトルでもじり、自らの移民生活をメタファーに創った作品。
日常品を使って非日常である現実を表現した動きは、コミカルで抽象的。舞台作品はシドニー、メルボルン、アデレードで公演され、ダンスフィルムとしてはイギリスのチャンネル４との提携で制作された。（２００４−２００７年）
批評抜粋
“舞踏と日本的な伝統を背景に持つうみうまれの信じられないぐらい強烈なソロでは、個人的で家庭的な細かい動きにでも、のすご い意味を持っているかのように客の集中力を引き込んでゆく。（中略）目の前に映るものは、心理的かつ感情的なことを熟考して積み重ねた動きやオブジェクト であり、その確たるものに裏付けられた中での変容ぶりに、私たちは釘付けにされるのである。”
シドニーモーニングヘラルド２００４年
パフォーマンス,映像公演歴
TimePlace
2007年OzAsia フェスティバル （アデレードフェスティバルセンター）
2006 年春のダンスプログラム、 メルボルンダンスハウスにてシーズン公演
2004 年プレミア公演
