Butoh and Body Weather residential workshop in Dec 2018
Butoh & Body Weather Residential workshop 13-17 December 2018
At Wimmera River Victoria Australia
Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
Residential workshop exploring the discipline of Butoh and Body Weather, Led by
Yumi Umiumare & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
On the Wimmera River, 15kms west of Horsham, our base will be a 130-acre site near Mt Arapiles with a variety of bush, scrub, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock - allowing participants to experience and open up the senses to colour, texture, sound and shapes. Through the powerful combination of Butoh and Body Weather, Yumi and Frank will guide participants in creating movement, stillness, and dance in response to landscape and nature.
YUMI UMIUMARE is an established Butoh Dancer and choreographer and has been creating her distinctive style of works over the last 25 years. Her works are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and questioning cultural identity. The works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America, and have received critical acclaim and garnered several Australian Green Room awards. As a choreographer, Yumi has worked with many socially engaged theatre projects in Australia with aboriginal communities, refugees, culturally diverse people and disability groups. In this workshop Yumi is going to explore the elements of Ritual, Ceremony and Gateway to the unknown.
FRANK VAN DE VEN is a dancer and director who spent his formative years in Japan working with Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company (1983-92). In 1993, he founded with Katerina Bakatsaki Body Weather Amsterdam as a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to his Body/Landscape series of workshops conducted worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with renowned Czech artist Milos Sejn, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture.In these days, Frank will focus on how the body is itself a landscape in a wider surrounding landscape. Body Weather was introduced in Australia by Tess de Quincey in 1989, see more detail about the BodyWeather
13(Thur)-17 (Mon) December 2018
Arrival 13th late afternoon, Leaving 17th morning
PRICE
$460/430 (Early Bird Special by 15 NOV $430/410!)
(Vegetarian meals of 5days included)
Numbers are limited so please book early!
World Tea Gathering in Adelaide Nov 2018
The Art Gallery of South Australia will host the 2018 World Tea Gathering this November as part of the OzAsia Festival. Tea artists from Australia, France, Japan, Brazil and Germany will assemble from the 2nd to 9th of November, presenting a week of pop-up events and performances celebrating the art of tea.
The Art Gallery of South Australia will host the 2018 World Tea Gathering this November as part of the OzAsia Festival. Tea artists from Australia, France, Japan, Brazil and Germany will assemble from the 2nd to 9th of November, presenting a week of pop-up events and performances celebrating the art of tea.
FRIDAY 2 NOVEMBER
17:00 – 21:00
AGSA FIRST FRIDAYS
ICHI GO ICHI E・YOLO (one time, one meeting / You Only Live Once)
Journey to the gallery for unique encounters with the World Tea Gathering artists through tea. Tonight marks the informal start of the World Tea Gathering.
Impromptu tea rituals take place throughout the gallery as well as scheduled performances inspired by the spirit of tea.
Yumi Umiumare, Adam Wojciński and Erika Kobayashi will perform a tea ritual with no utensils, no tea. The performance elucidates the essence of tea ritual through the emotion of the human body.
In addition to your bowl of tea, enjoy the hypnotic sounds of the Moonta Street band and take a tour with a Gallery Guide through some of our international displays.
Cost: Free
Where: Whole Gallery -Art Gallery of South Australia
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
SATURDAY 3 NOVEMBER
11:00 – 15:00
WORLD TEA GATHERING SYMPOSIUM- TOGETHERNESS THROUGH TEA
A timely discussion on tea as a global culture and global artistic/philosophic tradition that unites all cultures, all people. The symposium follows a dynamic format. Academic presentations are punctuated by tea ritual, performance and tea flowing from pot to audience.
Cost: Free
Where: Radford Auditorium, behind the Art Gallery of South Australia
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
SUNDAY 4 NOVEMBER
11:00 – 15:00
START AT THE GALLERY - Children & Families - TEA AND TOGETHERNESS -
Discover the art of tea at this START event. Be introduced to tea traditions with globe-trotting tea artists and experience the joy of togetherness expressed through ritual, art, music and more.
Cost: Free
Where: Whole Gallery
Enquiries: agsa.information@artgallery.sa.gov.au
World Tea Gathering Information
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.
Workshop on durational performance
11 August, 2018, 9am-4pm @ Hamer Hall Stage Door Suite
A one day Workshop on durational performance presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne Fringe .
Through a style of her renowned durational work, PopUp Tearoom Series, Yumi will guide participants to explore the elements of rituals, performance, installation and gateways towards ‘unknown’.
Introducing also basic methods and philosophy of Butoh and tea ceremony, Yumi facilitates the workshop for participants to stimulate and search their own unique rituals and ‘authentic’ movements, working through images, narrative and abstraction. The mundane gestures and daily objects can be transformed into their own imaginary world of performance installation.
No dance, performance and art backgrounds are required.
Photo from Con-TemporariTEA at Testing Ground, Mapping Melbourne 2017
Open Butoh Class on Tuesday Morning
Every Tuesday 10:30am-12:30pm
From 10 July till 21 Aug
@ Aka Studio East Brunswick
Through the workshop, Yumi introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh and other dance disciplines to open up Body, Space, Energy and Imagination!
The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
Picture: from ButohOUT! 2018 photo by Mifumi Obata
INFORMATION
Dates:
10(Tue)July
17(TuE)july
24(Tue)July
31 (Tue) July
7(Tue) Aug
14(Tue) Aug
21(Tue) Aug
Times:
10:30am-12:30pm
Location:
AKA Studio Yoga
130C Nicholson Street, Brunswick East
No Booking is required
$20/$15
About this Workshop
Through the workshop, Yumi introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh and other dance disciplines to open up Body, SPACE, ENERGY and IMAGINATION!
The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
Butoh Weekend Intensive: Known and Unknown
4(Sat) and 5(Sun) Aug 2018
@ Siteworks Brunswick
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their ‘known’ and ‘unknown’ territories of our bodies, movements and thought process through philosophy of Butoh and beyond.
Picture from ButohOUT! 2018 photo by Mifumi Obata
INFORMATION
Dates:
4(Sat) Aug 2018
5(Sun) AUG 2018
Times:
10:30am-4:30pm
Location:
@SITEWORKS, Workroom 2
33 Saxon Street, Brunswick
Bookings:
Please use the Registration
form Thanks!
Winter Special
Price
$150/$180
About this Workshop
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their ‘known’ and ‘unknown’ territories of our bodies, movements and thought process through philosophy of Butoh and beyond.
The focus points for this workshop are
Body Presence
Gravity
Space, IN, OUT, BETWEEN (Ma)
Memory and Imagination
What is our habitual movement?
What is our ‘unknown’ movement?
Register for this workshop!
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
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
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.
AnxieTEA in Sydney
As a part of Eco-Anxiety festival, Yumi will explore the concept of ‘AnxieTEA’, through various tea ceremony rituals, creating elements between the anxious and calm, sacred and profane, serious and absurdly funny.
Yumi Umiumare’s PopUp Tearoom Series offers various experiences through the ritual of tea ceremonies, installation, and performance.
For Eco-Anxiety, Yumi will explore the concept of ‘AnxieTEA’, through various tea ceremony rituals, creating elements between the anxious and calm, sacred and profane, serious and absurdly funny.
OPENING RECEPTION at Japan Foundation, Sydney
September 22, 2017 (Friday)
6pm-8pm
Features Yumi Umiumare’s AnxieTEA interactive performance.
Free; bookings not necessary.
September 23, 2017 (Saturday)
1pm-3pm
@Central Park
Outdoors, off Central Park Ave
Chippendale NSW 2008
http://www.yumi.com.au/2908-2/
https://jpf.org.au/events/anxietea/
Photo by Shoko Ono
Japan Times Review
A write up by Andrew Eglinton for the Japan Times. "Cultural disorientation is dancer Yumi Umiumare’s artistic drive".
Butoh and Body Weather Residential Workshop
16(Thur)-20 (Mon) November 2017
Residential workshop exploring the disciplines of Butoh and Body Weather
Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
Butoh and Body Weather Residential Workshop
16(thur)-20 (Mon) November 2017
Residential workshop exploring the disciplines of Butoh and Body Weather
Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
On the Wimmera River, 15kms west of Horsham, our base will be a 130-acre site near Mt Arapiles with a variety of bush, scrub, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock – allowing participants to experience and open up the senses to colour, texture, sound and shapes. Through the powerful combination of Butoh and Body Weather, Yumi and Frank will guide participants in creating movement and dance in response to landscape.
YUMI UMIUMARE is an established Butoh Dancer and choreographer. She has been creating her distinctive style of works over the last 20 years and her works are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and questioning cultural identity. The works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America, and have received critical acclaim and garnered several Australian Green Room awards. As a choreographer, Yumi has worked with many socially engaged theatre projects in Australia with aboriginal communities, refugees, culturally diverse people and disability groups. Yumi was a recipient of the fellowship from Australian Council, through which she is exploring her popup tearoom series.
About Yumi
FRANK VAN DE VEN is a dancer and director who spent his formative years in Japan working with Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company (1983-92). In 1993, he founded with Katerina Bakatsaki Body Weather Amsterdam as a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to his Body/Landscape series of workshops conducted worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with renowned Czech artist Milos Sejn, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture. Body Weather was introduced in Australia by Tess de Quincey in 1989, see About Body Weather.
Dates:Arrival 16th late afternoon, Leaving 20th morning
Price:$450/420(Vegetarian meals of 5days included)
Early Bird Special by 20 Oct $420/400
Numbers are limited so please book early!
WinterWild festival in Apollo Bay
Yumi is conducting a ritual with her own unique interpretation of butoh, the modern Japanese dance of darkness. Yumi will choreograph local performers to welcome you to the soil of the Otways.
Dog Watch: Earth celebrates the dirt beneath our feet.Yumi is conducting a ritual with her own unique interpretation of butoh, the modern Japanese dance of darkness. Yumi will choreograph local performers to welcome you to the soil of the Otways.
15th July, 6.00pm Location: Apollo Bay foreshore Tickets: Not required Price: Free Detail
Yumi is also performing at the Mech Hall
Date: Saturday 15th July, 8.00pm Gig: Earth at The Mech with EmotionWorks, Tek Tek Ensemble, October Wish Location: The Mechanics Institute, Apollo Bay Tickets: Book Now Price: $75 + booking fee Detail
Photo image by John Pryke
Evocation of Butoh, mini Butoh Festival in Melbourne
9-20 March 2017As a part of AsiaTOPA, Evocation of Butoh is a mini festival to activate artistic and cultural exchange in the performance art of Butoh with local arts communities in Melbourne.
EVOCATION OF BUTOHPERFORMANCE,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
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)
*$600 when both workshops 1 & 2 are applied.
Workshop inquiry : info@takashitakiguchi.com
A Embodied & Butoh Dance workshop By Maria Sangiorgi & Yumi Umiumare in Bali, 5-10 June 2017 日
Embodied Dance & Butoh By Maria Sangiorgi & Yumi Umiumare @Bali Mountain Retreat at Mt Batukaru, Bali 5-10 June 2017 エンボディーダンス＆舞踏 By マリア・サンジョージ& ゆみ・うみうまれ バリ島、Batukaru山にてのリトリートにて ２０１７年６月５日〜１０日
Embodied Dance & ButohBy Maria Sangiorgi & Yumi Umiumare @Bali Mountain Retreat at Mt Batukaru, Bali 5th to 10th June 2017
Weaving the Interior and exterior landscape
Yumi and Maria have known each other for nearly 20 years. They share a passion for dance and its transcendent and transformative qualities. They are like spiritual comrades and both have been exploring particular spiritual practice reflecting from their cultural and global identity through dance.
Maria is like the earth and water that is moved by the fire and air. She is seen by many who attend her workshops as a nurturing mother. In her teaching, she holds her students in their dance, enough for them to find their way, then sets them free. Whereas Yumi is like fire and air that is moved by the earth and water. As a kind of catalyst, Yumi also helps people to open up their new territories through her gentle provocation exercises. As Butoh originally called as ‘dance of darkness’, Yumi taps into the aspect of our shadow to unleash the unknown.
Their coming together in this 5 day Residential on Mt Batukaru, Bali, will be a beautiful blend of Female energy, as they bring together their magic from years of dance practice and performance to provide a rich, creative field for the participants to work in.
This wonderful week offers you:
- 30 hours of training in total from Maria and Yumi.
- Full accommodation* in the beautiful tranquil Bali Mountain Retreat, with all meals and drinking water provided
- Transport to and from the airport or Ubud or other main destinations.
- A beautiful massage
- Temple trek
- Traditional Joged Bumbung Dance performance and
- Village Temple full moon ceremony
- are included in the package price.
*this is standard share accommodation. You can change your preference to a single room but the cost will be more. There will be an opportunity to perform in the outdoor Amphitheatre of the Yoga Barn Ubud on Sunday the 11th of June. (This is not Obligatory but guaranteed to be a lot of fun)
See the program bellow to get a feel of what the week will offer you.
Special Offer (end on 30 Apil) cost per person is $1.1OO USD and discount another $300 USD if you bring another person! (Please pay a deposit of $250 USD will secure your place.)
Detail of the workshop and Payment method
Embodied Dance Embodied Dance takes from many forms of somatic movement, expression and dance, weaving them into a deep visceral experience. The work is informed by the natural way the body moves through, spirals, waves, circles and vibrations.
These energies are all present in the body system, like the earth and the universe. We are one flowing wave of energy. This is also expressed through traditional indigenous dances of the past, particularly by Egyptian dance. The dancer keeps coming back to the now, exploring her sensation, feelings and thought, bringing herself to a place of deep authenticity.
Butoh BU舞 means Dance, Toh 踏means stomping, Butoh is originally called Dance of Darkness and it was conceived in Japan during the social turmoil after the war. It was conceived by Tatsumi Hijikata as one of the most avant-garde arts movements started in late 50’s and early 60’s.
Yumi is taking the deep spiritual aspects of Butoh, for its transformative, ethereal and playful quality and explore our passive existence surrounded by our rich internal and external landscape.
日本語での情報は以下です
エンボディーダンス＆舞踏 By マリア・サンジョージ& ゆみ・うみうまれ バリ島、Batukaru山にてのリトリートにて ２０１７年６月５日(月)〜１０日（土）
ゆみとマリアは２０年近くの友人で、共に踊りへのパッションをシェアしてきました。ダンスのもつ深いパワーや、その変化をもたらす力を信じている彼女たち２人はまるでスピリチュアルな同士のよう。彼女たち２人は文化的でグローバルな視野を持ちながら、 ダンスを通してからだと心を解放できるように、スピリチュアルなワークを実践しています。
マリアは火と風に動かされる、まるで大地と水。彼女のワークショップに参加した多くの人は、彼女を優しく包み込んでくれる母のように感じると言います。彼女の教え方は、それぞれの個性を生かしたダンスを、それぞれが発見できるように、そしてそれが自由にできるように導いてゆきます。
そして、ゆみは大地と水に動かされる、まるで火と風。ゆみも同じようにオープンに、また、 いわゆる「触媒」のように喚起をうながし、エクササイズを通し、 参加者が 新しい領域を自由に開いてゆけるように導いてゆきます。 もともと暗黒舞踏として始まった舞踏。ゆみの舞踏のセッションは、からだを通して、私たちの持つある種の闇とそれを照らす光、まだ見ぬ未知の世界が開放してゆけるように導いてゆきます。
このユニークな２人が共に行う５日間のバリ島、Batukaru山でのリトリートは、その自然溢れる場所で、優しく美しい女性的なエネルギーに満ちています。また長年のダンスとパフォーマンスの経験を持つ彼女たち２人独特のマジックにより、 クリエイティブで奥深いスペースが、参加者の皆さんと共に創られてゆくことでしょう 。
この５日間のワークショップには以下のことが含まれております
- マリアとゆみによる３０時間のワークショップ
美しく閑静なBali Mountain Retreatでの滞在費、全食費と飲み物
http://www.balimountainretreat.com/bmr/index.htm
- 飛行場、ウブド、またはその他の場所からの送り迎え
- 素晴らしいマッサージ
- お寺への散策案内
そして、伝統的なダンス（Joged Bumbung Dance）と村で行われる満月のセレモニーへの参加もこの参加費の中に含まれております。
６月１１日には野外円形劇場でのパフォーマンスも予定されております。（強制ではありません）
費用：１１００アメリカドル スペシャルオファー（４月３０日まで）もしペアで参加の場合、さらに＄３００ディスカウント！
＄２５０ドルのデポジットを払うことにより予約が確定します。
日本語での問い合わせは ゆみまで マリアについて（英語） ゆみについて
エンボディー・ダンス エンボディー・ダンスとは、様々な肉体の動きや表現やダンスの型を融合させたメソッドで、 深い感覚から踊りが感じられるように創られたものです。このワークの中では、渦をまく動き、波の動き、また、円を描き、振動の伝わるような動きなど、体にとってごく自然な動きから構成されます。まるで宇宙にある地球のように、私たちの体の器官の中には、さまざまなエネルギーが 存在します。 私たちの体の中には、一つのエネルギーの波が流れているものとも言えます。
エンボディー・ダンスは、過去の様々な伝統的なダンスや先住民的なダンス、特にエジプトのダンスの影響を受けております。踊り手たちは、自分たちが持つ 感覚、気持ちや、考え方を探りながら、それぞれの本来の姿に深く戻って行けるように、「いま目の前で起きていること」を探って行きます。
舞踏 もともと暗黒舞踏と呼ばれて始まった舞踏は、土方巽を中心に形成された前衛舞踊の様式で、 戦後５０年代、６０年代の社会的混乱の日本の中で生まれた、最も前衛芸術の一つといえます。ゆみの舞踏では、その深い精神性を探るのみならず、踊りの中でトランスしてゆく性質、またその不思議な空気感と遊びごごろを刺激してゆきます。からだを「受け身に」おくことで、からだの外的、内的風景を感じることができ、 そこから自然にわきおこってゆく踊りと、そのまわり にある空間を探ってゆきます。
SpontaneiTEA @ Mapping Melbourne Festival
PopUp Tearoom Series: SpontaneiTEA as a part of Mapping Melbourne festivalMonday5 and 12 December, 4-8pm @Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale
PopUp Tearoom Series: SpontaneiTEAas a part of Mapping Melbourne festival Monday5 and 12 December, 4-8pm @Horse Bazaar, 397 Little Lonsdale
The PopUp Tearoom Series is a durational performance and site-specific installation. Audiences are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and the pop-up performances will be happening in spirit of spontaneiTEA of the moment.
Photo by Barry C Douglas
OrganiciTEA @Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop
PopUp Tearoom has created during the Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop.
PopUp Tearoom has created during the Wimmera Butoh Residential workshop.The participants of the workshop were invited to sit down and share the rituals of the tea ceremony for reflecting their process of the workshop. Butoh workshop in November
SpontaneiTEA @Hong Kong I-Dance Festival
PopUp Tearoom series was invited as a part of the opening event of i-dance festival, and has popped up in front of Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong,Yumi was one of invited artists and also joined their international exchange improvisation dance.
Our Place, Our Home, Melbourne Town Hall
Our Place, Our Homeas a part of Melbourne International Festival@ Melbourne Town Hall The PopUp Tearoom space was created in Melbourne Town Hall, in front of the installation by Chikaru Shiota
Our Place, Our Homeas a part of Melbourne International Festival@ Melbourne Town Hall The PopUp Tearoom space was created in Melbourne Town Hall, in front of the installation by Chikaru Shiota
The culminating moments of the 2016 Melbourne Festival was a celebration of diversity—a fitting bookend to our opening ceremony from the land’s First Peoples, with a multicultural exchange through coffee, tea and music. Event Information
Butoh and Body Weather residential workshop Butoh & Body Weather 25-29 November 2016
Butoh & Body Weather 25-29 November 2016 Wimmera River Victoria AustraliaResidential workshop exploring the disciplines of Butoh and Body Weather
Butoh & Body Weather 25-29 November 2016 Wimmera River VictoriaResidential workshop exploring the disciplines of Butoh and Body Weather Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
On the Wimmera River, 15kms west of Horsham, our base will be a 130-acre site near Mt Arapiles with a variety of bush, scrub, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock - allowing participants to experience and open up the senses to colour, texture, sound and shapes. Through the powerful combination of Butoh and Body Weather, Yumi and Frank will guide participants in creating movement and dance in response to landscape.
25(Friday)-29 (Tuesday) November 2016, Arrival 25th late afternoon, Leaving 29th morning
$450/420(Vegetarian meals of 5days included) Early Bird Special by 1 Nov $420/400
Numbers are limited so please book early! Enquiries
Yumi's biog and Past residential workshops
FRANK VAN DE VEN is a dancer and director who spent his formative years in Japan working with Min Tanaka and the Maijuku Performance Company (1983-92). In 1993, he founded with Katerina Bakatsaki Body Weather Amsterdam as a platform for training and performance. He has an ongoing commitment to his Body/Landscape series of workshops conducted worldwide and since 1995 he has led the annual, interdisciplinary Bohemiae Rosa Project with renowned Czech artist Milos Sejn, connecting body and landscape with art, geology and architecture. Body Weather was introduced in Australia by Tess de Quincey in 1989, see body weather website
WHITE DAY DREAM with Weave Movement Theatre
27 October 2016 – 6 November 2016Presented 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.
WHITE DAY DREAM with Weave Movement Theatre27 October 2016 – 6 November 2016 preview: Thursday 27 October opening night: Friday 28 October Auslan interpreted performance: Sunday 6 November
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. 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.
Photo by Paul Dann and Pippa Somaya
