PopUp tearoom series@Artshouse, Cultural Lab
PopUpTearoom series @ ArtsHouse as a part of CulturalLAB, exploring multidimensional performance spaces, collaborated with a dancer, visual artist, media artist, tea ceremony and Ikebana specialists.
Over the 2weeks of studio residency as a part of Cultural LAB program at ArtsHouse, Yumi explores multidimensional performance spaces, created actual, virtual and surreal ‘tearooms’ through collaboration with dancer, visual artist, media artist, tea ceremony and Ikebana specialists, to deepen her interdisciplinary practice and approach. Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Adam Wojcinski (performer/tea artist) Anne Norman(musician) Bambang N Karim (media artist) Dan West (sound artist) Gregory Lorenzutti (performer/ photographer) Riza Manalo (visual artist) Shoso Simbo (Ikebana/flower arrangement artist)
This project was supported by Australian Council for the Arts, Dance Board (Fellowship) and CulturalLAB,ArtsHouse.
Photo by Ben Thomas, Yumi Umiumare
Butoh residential workshop 17-20 Dec 2015
BUTOH RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP17(Thur)-20 (Sun) Dec 2015 On the Wimmera River, 15kms west of Horsham Led By Yumi Umiumare and Anthony Pelchen After gaining great inspiration from her recent trips to Europe, Yumi is going to explore diverse aspects of exploring body and landscape.This 130-acre site near Mt Arapiles allows participants to move between bush, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock - opening up the senses to colour, texture, sound and form.
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17(Thur)-20 (Sun) Dec 2015
This popular residential workshop is to expand our body awareness,deepen our consciousness and unleash our internal expressions through a response to landscape.After getting great inspiration from her recent trips to Europe,including the international Butoh exchange festival in the countryside of Germany, Yumi is going to share diverse methods of exploring body and landscape.This 130-acre site near Mt Arapiles allows participants to move between bush, sand dunes , open fields, river and elevated rock - opening up the senses to colour, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce Butoh in both technical and non-technical aspect, tapping into our 'unknown' territories. Anthony will guide a dynamic session of collective charcoal drawing, tapping into this and the general energetic build-up over the weekend.
$350/320 (Vegetarian meals included) Early Bird Special by 21 Nov $330/300
Numbers are limited so please book early!
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Workshop Bookings
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Weekend Intensive Butoh workshop in Italy
Butoh Weekend Intensivo Yumi Umiumare Giappone / Australia (Butoh Intensive workshop in Italy)@Montignano di Senigallia, Ancona, Italy, 30 August 2015
"esplorando gli elementi fondamentali dell'esistenza fisica e psicologica" "exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence"
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"esplorando gli elementi fondamentali dell'esistenza fisica e psicologica" "exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence"
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eX...it! 2015 International Butoh exchange project- Germany
Yumi was one of the 8 choreographers working with 75 participants and 6 live musicians coming from 27 different countries.‘eX...it!’ is the 5th international exchange dance festival since 1995, directed by Yumiko Yoshioka anddelta RA'i .
3-16 August 2015 at Schloss broellin, GermanyYumi was one of the 8 choreographers working with 75 participants and 6 live musicians coming from 27 different countries.‘eX...it!’ is the 5th international exchange dance festival since 1995, directed by Yumiko Yoshioka anddelta RA'i .
The festival is held every four years,and it is specifically designed for professional dancers of all disciplines who wish to work intensively with Butoh dance.
Pop-Up Wonders@Kinosaki
Two-week residency at Kinosaki International Arts Centre, with visual artis Riza Manalo and invited local and international artists, to explore the metaphor of reflection in relation to nature, personal rituals, symbolic objects and the production of ephemeral spaces. ‘Pop-up Wonders’ has examined and responded to the history of Kinosaki’s natural healing waters, man-made tourist attractions and visitors social activities.The pop up mobile space explored the relationship of objects to movement, new media technology, personal narratives and cultural experiences.
Performance by Riza Manalo and Yumi Umiumare, Adam Hatsu-Shin, Kyoko Hirobe
Photo by Ivan Kovac, Yuichiro Yoshida(Kinosaki International Arts Centre), Igaki Photo Studio
Butoh residential workshop 2-5 May 2015
On the Wimmera River, 15kms West of HorshamLead By Yumi Umiumare and locally based visual artist Anthony Pelchen
The aim of this workshop is to expand body awareness, deepen consciousness and unleash internal expression though a response to landscape. This 130 acre site near Mt Arapiles allows participants to move between bush-land, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various methods of Butoh, Chi/Gravity exercises, breathing methods and encourage a fuller expression and consciousness of well-being. The body practices and drawing will act as powerful counterpoints and as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.Anthony will run a session of charcoal drawing that tap into this and the overall energetic build-up over the weekend.
No dance, singing or drawing experience required
$350/320 (Vegetarian meals included) Early Bird Special by 17 April $330/300
YUMI UMIUMARE: Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is the only Japanese Butoh Dancer in Australia and the creator of provocative Butoh Cabaret works. Originally a member of the seminal Butoh Company DaiRakudakan in Tokyo, she moved to Australia and in 1993. Over the last 20 years Yumi’s versatile and distinctive physical theatre works have been seen in the spectrum of dance, theatre and film productions and festivals throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand and South Eastern Asia. Yumi teaches Butoh nationally and internationally.
ANTHONY PELCHEN: As a visual artist working across mediums, Anthony studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and has since presented work in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Denmark. For over a decade he has periodically collaborated with Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap and since 2010 has curated the Visual Arts program of the annual Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Malaysia.
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ZeroZero and Hipbones Sticking Out and in Melbourne Festival
ZeroZero at Dance TerritoriesTHE SACRED AND THE PROFANE – RITUALS OF NOW Tue 14 & Wed 15 Oct 2014 @DANCEHOUSE
Yumi is in the Hipbones Sticking Out by BighART Fri 17 – Tue 21 Oct 2014 @ Arts Center Melbourne Playhouse
ZeroZero at Dance TerritoriesTHE SACRED AND THE PROFANE – RITUALS OF NOW Tue 14 & Wed 15 Oct 2014 @DANCEHOUSE
Two programs pair works by local and international choreographers in a charged collision of dance, highlighting different approaches to similar subject matter.
‘The Sacred and the Profane’ sees Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare perform their exploration of nothingness, Zero, Zero, alongside a playful work by Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté (Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté) featuring three obsessive coffee drinkers.
Yumi is in the Hipbones Sticking Out
by BighART
Fri 17 – Tue 21 Oct 2014 @ Arts Center Melbourne Playhouse
When 16-year-old Yindjibarndi man John Pat died in a Roebourne lockup in 1983, it was more than a singular tragedy – it was part of a longer story, one that for 150 years had denied Indigenous people in the Pilbara the power to speak.
Hipbone Sticking Out takes us on a dreamlike journey through history: from Greco-Roman myths, tall ships, terra nullius, pearlers, pastoralists, slavery and exotic minerals to the lives of the Pat family in Roebourne – the here and now.
ZeroZero in Bogata, Columbia
ZeroZero at TEATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia18(Fri) and 19(Sat) October 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Teatro Estudio Price: 30 mil pesos
ZeroZero at TEATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia18(Fri) and 19(Sat) October 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Teatro Estudio Price: 30 mil pesos
ZeroZero is a new dance work by Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, exploring the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. Yap and Umiumare's ancient cultural and spiritual traditions are combined with Gingold’s bleeding edge explorations of high and low technologies. From the immediacy and simplicity of the human body lit by candles and incense, to the use of the latest technology, ZeroZero will transport the viewer with its immersive environment and evocative and trance¬like physical explorations.
'...strong, powerful and incredibly moving' Arts Hub on ZeroZero at 'Return to Sender', Performance Space, November 2011
