SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: Live Calligraphy & Dance with Hisako Tsuchiya (my mum!)
After sold out performances we are doing an extra special performance on this Sunday 30 March @ 4pm!
Live calligraphy by 87 yo my mother the calligrapher and my dance.
The last chance to see !
Book now before selling out again !!
金曜日のパフォーマンス
売り切れのため、日曜日に最後なパフォーマンスあります！
87歳母比佐子の書と私の踊り！
なかなかない機会です、是非どうぞ！
After sold out performances we are doing an extra special performance on this Sunday 30 March @ 4pm!
Live calligraphy by 87 yo my mother the calligrapher and my dance.
The last chance to see !
Book now before selling out again !!
The link is in the comment area.
金曜日のパフォーマンス
売り切れのため、日曜日に最後なパフォーマンスあります！
87歳母比佐子の書と私の踊り！
なかなかない機会です、是非どうぞ！
My 87-year-old mother, Hisako, will be holding a calligraphy exhibition @ Sol Gallery during her stay in Melbourne!
The exhibition will feature over 30 works, ranging from highly original pieces to classical calligraphy. Some of the works were created during the 16 years she spent caring for my brother, who passed away two and a half years ago.
This exhibition will be a reflection of her life’s journey through calligraphy.
It will be held for 10 days at a gallery in Fitzroy, so please pop ion if you can!!
First Sign of Light： 兆し
Calligraphy exhibition by Hisako Tsuchiya
Venue: SOL Gallery, 420 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
Dates: Tuesday, March 18 – Sunday, March 30
Opening Hours: 11 AM – 6 PM (NOT opened on Mondays)
Details are in the comments sections !!
Opening reception: 19(Wed) 6PM-8:30PM(no booking required)
I will be also dancing on Friday 21 and 28 March.
Special performance : Live calligraphy/ Dance/Music
Opening: Music: Dan West(21 March) Ai Yamamoto(28 March)
21(Fri) and 28(Fri) March @7pm 30 (Sun) @4pm
(booking required)
See you there:)))x
この度、８７歳母、比佐子がメルボルン滞在中に、書展をすることになりました。
かなり独創的なものから古典の書まで、３０点以上展示予定です。
２年半前に亡くなった私の兄を１６年間「老幼介護」をしながら創作したものものあり、母の人生の軌跡を綴ったような書展になると思います。
交通の便も良いFitzroyで、私もよく知っている友人のギャラリーにて１０日間開催します。
お時間のある時に是非お越しください！！
場所：SOL Gallery 420 Brunswick St, Fitzroy
時間：3月18日（火）から3月30日（日）１１時から１８時までギャラリー・オープン（月曜休館）
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Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2024, ButohBAR 2025 Out of Order II is also now SOLD OUT!
This electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.
Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence.
[SOLD OUT]
BUTOHOUT! 2025
Performance Season
@ Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2023, ButohBAR 2025 Out of Order II is also now sold out!
This electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.
Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence. Featuring guerrilla performers, roving installations, out-of-order karaoke and more, the evening includes exquisite sake and food by Tamura Sake Bar.
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II thrillingly throws back to a time when Butoh ruled Japan’s nightclubs and strip joints in the 1970s and 1980s.
CREDIT
CREATIVES
Co-creator / artistic director/ choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator / creative producer: Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴
Visual artist: Jacqui Stockdale
Sound designer: Ai Yamamoto
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson
International guest artist: Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya
Lighting operator and stage manager: Celina Mack
Website and graphic designer: Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴
Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Videographer: Takeshi Kondo
Food and Sake: Tamura Sake Bar and Izakaya by Tamura
CO-CREATORS & PERFORMERS
ButohOUT! Ensemble 2025
Kaira Hachefa
Willow J Conway and
Yumi Umiumare
GUEST ARTISTS
Emma Bathgate
Maude Davey and more
ButohOUT! Ensemble Members
Alex Rouse, Em Kimber, Emma Fayelecaun, Kei Murakami, Pauline Sherlock, Spira Stojanovik, Taka Takiguchi and Tania Perez
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II is supported by Asia TOPA, a joint initiative of Arts Centre Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Playking Foundation and the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.
Performance Season - ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II | 5 - 9 March 2025
BUTOHOUT! 2025 Performance Season @ Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2023, this electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.
Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence.
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II thrillingly throws back to a time when Butoh ruled Japan’s nightclubs and strip joints in the 1970s and 1980s.
Commissioned and presented by Abbotsford Convent and Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne
BUTOHOUT! 2025
Performance Season
@ Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne
PERFORMANCE
ABOUT
Dive into a surreal nightclub experience where cabaret collides with chaos! ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II features an enthralling dance, cabaret, song and visual art. The evening is centred around the art form Butoh, a hypnotic style of Japanese dance theatre. Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2023, this electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.
Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence. Featuring guerrilla performers, roving installations, out-of-order karaoke and more, the evening includes exquisite sake and food by Tamura Sake Bar.
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II thrillingly throws back to a time when Butoh ruled Japan’s nightclubs and strip joints in the 1970s and 1980s.
CREDIT
CREATIVES
Co-creator / artistic director/ choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator / creative producer: Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴
Visual artist: Jacqui Stockdale
Sound designer: Ai Yamamoto
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson
International guest artist: Atsushi Takenouchi and Hiroko Komiya
Lighting operator and stage manager: Celina Mack
Website and graphic designer: Taka Takiguchi 滝口貴
Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Videographer: Takeshi Kondo
Food and Sake: Tamura Sake Bar and Izakaya by Tamura
CO-CREATORS & PERFORMERS
ButohOUT! Ensemble 2025
Kaira Hachefa
Willow J Conway and
Yumi Umiumare
GUEST ARTISTS
Emma Bathgate
Maude Davey and more
ButohOUT! Ensemble Members
Alex Rouse, Em Kimber, Emma Fayelecaun, Kei Murakami, Pauline Sherlock, Spira Stojanovik, Taka Takiguchi and Tania Perez
WHEN
March 2025
Wed 5 7:30pm (Preview)
Thu 6 7:30pm (Opening)
Fri 7 7:30pm
Sat 8 7:30pm
Sun 9 7:30pm
*From 7pm every night, Sake and spine-tingling ritualistic happenings starts, so COME EARLY!
TICKET
Butoh Lovers!: $40
General: $35
Concession: $25
Preview & Mob Tix: $20
DURATION
90 mins including interval
WHERE
Abbotsford Convent
1 St Heliers St,
Abbotsford VIC 3067
Industrial School
Site #4 on the MAP
ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II is supported by Asia TOPA, a joint initiative of Arts Centre Melbourne and the Sidney Myer Fund, the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria, Playking Foundation and the Australian Government Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development, Communications and the Arts.
Beyond – Racing Through This Moment
22 (Sun) Dec 2024
At Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Yumi has great opportunity of choreographing and performing at the annual event of the Tenri University Dance Club, Nara Japan, renowned for winning numerous awards due to the high quality and creativity of their dance.Yumi has been staying in Nara for 2 weeks in December, to create and perform a piece, collaborating with 22 dancers and 18 Gagaku musicians to present it on the grand stage of Centennial Hall in front of an audience of 1,500!!
20th Annual performance by Tenri University Creative Dance Club
Beyond—Racing Through This Moment
22(Sun) Dec 2024, Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Yumi has great opportunity of choreographing and performing at the annual event of the Tenri University Dance Club, Nara Japan, renowned for winning numerous awards due to the high quality and creativity of their dance.Yumi has been staying in Nara for 2 weeks in December, to create and perform a piece, collaborating with 22 dancers and 18 Gagaku musicians to present it on the grand stage of Centennial Hall in front of an audience of 1,500!!
Gagaku, historically used as imperial court music, has been established for over ten centuries. It served as ceremonial music for the imperial court, major Buddhist temples, and Shinto shrines in Japan. Recognised by UNESCO, it is considered the oldest continuously performed orchestral music in the world.
55th year anniversary of the establishment
20th Annual performance by Tenri University Creative Dance Club
Beyond – Racing Through This Moment
Come and Join us!
EVENT DETAILS:
22(Sun) Dec 2024
At Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Link (in Japanese ):
FIND OUT MORE HERE
Enquiry (in English):
CONTACT YUMI
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ゆみうみうまれは、日本・奈良の天理大学創作ダンス部の創立５５周年、２０回目の記念イベントにおいて、振付とパフォーマンスを行う素晴らしい機会を得ました。同部は、そのダンスの高いクオリティと創造性によって数々の賞を受賞していることで知られています。うみうまれはiは12月に2週間奈良に滞在し、22人のダンサーと18人の雅楽演奏者と共に作品を創り上げ、1500人の観客を迎える奈良100年会館の大舞台で披露します！
雅楽は、歴史的に皇室の宮廷音楽として使用され、千年以上の歴史を持っています。
皇室の儀式や、日本の主要な仏教寺院や神社で演奏される音楽として発展しました。ユネスコによって世界最古の継続して演奏されているオーケストラ音楽と認められています。
乞うご期待！
創部５５周年
第２０回創作ダンス部単独公演、
Beyond この瞬間を駆けぬける
１２月２２日（日）開演１８：００ （１７：００開場）
（於）奈良１００年会館大ホール
