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
Unwoman by The Rabble 15–28 November 2019 @Substation
Yumi is performing in Unwoman by The Rabble
15–28 November 2019 @Substation
UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.
UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.
Made with THE RABBLE, professional performers and a community ensemble of pregnant performers, UNWOMAN is an invocation of the pregnant body as a plurality of experiences. It is visceral, carnal and an uncompromising piece of feminist theatre horrified by the history and laws attempting to curb bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.
FEATURING / Dana Miltins, Mary Helen Sassman and Yumi Umiumare.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Hero image by Patricio Cassinoni. Production photography by David Paterson, featuring Olwen Fouéré in UNWOMAN Part III, Dublin Fringe, November 2018.
“PERVERSE, REAL, HARROWING AND DEEPLY AFFECTING, THIS IS A UNIVERSAL, UNFORGETTABLE MASTERPIECE OF PERFORMANCE ART. – THE TIMES UK”
Booking
ButohOUT!2019@Abbotsford Convent 12March- 12May 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.
ButouOUT!2019 @Abbotsford Convent
Forbidden Laughter
禁じられた笑い
Abbotsford Convent
12 March - 12 May 2019
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“The action of laughing is like the breaking of the stiff mask of ego.
When we laugh, the authentic spirit jumps out from deep inside of us”
Keiichi Ueno
ButohOUT! is an annual festival celebrating creative communities and the profound performance art of Butoh. Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh was conceived in Japan in the late 1950s during the social turmoil after the Second World War. It goes beyond the confines of specific culture, gender, status and religion, aspiring to universal expression that touches the true nature of humanity.
ButohOUT! 2019 will challenge the commonly held conception of Butoh as dark and grotesque, and will ask: “Can the audience laugh at Butoh? Can we portray comedy in Butoh?” In the Japanese language the word for laughter warau 笑う comes from the verb wareru 割れる- to break, crack or split.
Exploring the theme, ‘Forbidden Laughter’, ButohOUT! 2019 will focus on surreal comedy. The Butoh will draw upon cabaret, bouffon, burlesque, physical theatre and visual art installation.
Open to experienced dancers, newcomers, children and families, the ButohOUT! program presents an exciting opportunity for participants and audiences to learn from expert practitioners and experience this unique performance arts form. Workshop participants have the opportunity to receive mentoring and present original solo and group works at the Convent during the public performance season in May.
Artistic director Yumi Umiumare
Producer Takashi Takiguchi
Dramaturg Maude Davey
Visual artist Pimpisa Tinpalit
Funded by Creative Victoria
Presented in partnership with Abbotsford Convent Foundation
Photography Vikk Shayen
WORKSHOPS
12 March - 16 April 2019
"Breaking the Dark Mask"
29 March - 31 March 2019
5 April - 7 April 2019
Convent Kids presents: Peek-A-Butoh
23 March 2019
2 - 12 May
Industrial School,
Abbotsford Convent
Joining Back to Back Theatre's Tokyo Tour Oct 2018
Yumi is joining Back to Back Theatre’s Tokyo tour, performing in their masterpiece, small metal objects, a theatre show in the public domain; part voyeuristic meditation, part urban thriller.
An ingenious theatrical gem, small metal objects unfolds amidst the high volume pedestrian traffic of Ikebukuro Nishiguchi-park. With individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired into an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd.
Yumi is joining Back to Back Theatre’s Tokyo tour, performing in their masterpiece, small metal objects, a theatre show in the public domain; part voyeuristic meditation, part urban thriller. An ingenious theatrical gem, small metal objects unfolds amidst the high volume pedestrian traffic of Ikebukuro Nishiguchi-park. With individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired into an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd.
Con-TemporariTEA @ Mapping Melbourne Festival2017
A collaboration between Yumi Umiumare's PopUp Tearoom Series and S-Jon's Tumbleweed project, Con-TemporariTEA is a durational performance ritual, exploring freedom and spontaneity. It was a part of Mapping Melbourne Festival.
Con-TemporariTEA
1(Fri) Dec 2017, 5pm-9pm at Testing Ground as a part of Mapping Melbourne Festval
A collaboration between Yumi Umiumare's PopUp Tearoom Series and S-Jon's Tumbleweed project, Con-TemporariTEA is a durational performance ritual, exploring freedom and spontaneity. When the wind blows, the things collected transform the landscape with new shape and forms emerging organically like tumbleweed. This is a collective inspiration of movement via the wind, where people from many diverse countries have settled into the one city, bringing their culture and rituals and through interaction create unique markings that redefine a diverse landscape, community and society full of beautiful colour, shape and texture
Created and Performance by Yumi Umiumare and S-Jon
Music by Dan West
Coral object by Naomi Ota
Original PopUp Tearoom Series has assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body
Con-TemporatiTEA is a part of Mapping Melbourne 2017, supported by Multicultural Arts Victoria.
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 Ngapartji, Namatjira, 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.
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
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.
Quote from Pozible campaign
“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”
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.
