Performanscape - Butoh at the You Yangs
A few images from a larger body of work "Performanscape" created for the Core program of the 2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale in collaboration with Vikk Shayen a Melbourne based Photographer. All performers were shot on location, nothing was added in post-production.
A few images from a larger body of work “Performanscape” created for the Core program of the 2013 Ballarat International Foto Biennale in collaboration with Vikk Shayen a Melbourne based Photographer. All performers were shot on location, nothing was added in post-production.
Photography: Vikk Shayen
Performers: Sebastian Peters-Lazaro / Yumi Umiumare / Harrison Hall / Willow Conway / Helen Smith / David Kemp / Daniel Mounsey / Felix Ho / Fina Po / Takashi Takiguchi
Production: Jesse Rasmussen / Ellen Strasser
For more information and Print Sales please go to vikkshayen.com
ABOUT THE BALLARAT INTERNATIONAL FOTO BIENNALE
The Core Program is a curated exhibition of Australian and International artists representing some of the best and most innovative contemporary photographic practice. With a focus on new work and a diverse curatorial approach the Core Program is a prestigious exhibition program staged across eight unique heritage buildings in Ballarat, Victoria.
ABOUT PERFORMANSCAPE
PERFORMANSCAPE is a collaborative photographic project with various Australian performance artists and theatre makers. The work exposes the stunning landscapes found throughout Australia that remain hidden from those living in urban areas. It also draws attention to the diversity, craftsmanship and physical virtuosity of various Australian artists and designers.
This project was originally inspired by a pervasive cultural disconnection between city dwellers and the natural environment as well as the emergence of an increasing number of site–specific performances within the world of theatre. In these works I reintroduce the corporeal reality of a performers body into the genre of landscape photography, asking how we see a contemporary human body in relationship to the land. This series explores a personal attraction to moments, objects and relationships that make strange the mundane, that challenges our perceptions of reality and that highlight the unfamiliar in a world that feels increasingly known, categorised and accounted for. I hope the images will bring you to a space in reality where the beauty of the improbable can exist.
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
DasSHOKU SHAKE! in Darwin Festival
DasSHOKU SHAKE!Yumi Umiumare & Theatre Group GUMBO
Get ready to be shaken and stirred!
Photo by Vikk Shayen
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Yumi Umiumare & Theatre Group GUMBO
Get ready to be shaken and stirred!
Created by butoh punkess Yumi Umiumare, Japan’s legendary Theatre Group GUMBO and three of Melbourne’s shock-toy acolytes (known as the DasSHOKU triangle) this is one psychedelic, cross-cultural, lost-in-translation, emo shake-up. DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award-winning DasSHOKU repertoire, the unique culture-crushing dementia that has been recognised by audiences in sell-out seasons around the world since 1999. Inspired by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan in 2011, this latest chapter bursts out of the earth to assault the senses. In it Umiumareʼs punk ingénue (a character that wouldn’t be out of place in the ‘60s cult series Monkey) joins a troupe of wanderers traversing the world and experiencing its shaky ground as a series of hell-on-earth fantasies. On the way there’s music, movement, merriment and just a touch of madness.
Recent Green Room Award winner for Innovation in Cabaret, DasSHOKU SHAKE! is a timeless myth told with a healthy mix of black satire GUMBO’s trademark bewildering absurdist humour. It fuses the intensity of butoh with all the entertainment of great cabaret for a weird and wonderful Festival experience from an incredible team of performers.
" It is a riot… black humour, absurd juxtapositions and occasional poignancy with skills and thrills.” Adelaide Advertiser
"Watching Umiumare dance butoh is like watching a stainless steel mannequin ram a knife into a toaster." Vibewire Artistic Director & Choreographer Yumi Umiumare Co-Director KayoTamura
Performers Yumi Umiumare, Helen Smith, Willow J, Harrison Hall, Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka & Ryo Nishihara Dramaturgy Matt Crosby Set Design Ellen Strasser Sound Design Dan West Costume Design Kiki Ando & Theatre Group GUMBO Original Lighting Design Tom Willis Additional Lighting Design for Darwin Tony Moore Photography Vikk Shayen (Australia)& Masami Kikuchi (Japan)
HIPBONE STICKING OUT World Premier Season
3-6 July at Canberra TheatrePERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Jada Alberts, Simon Gleeson, Trevor Jamieson, Derik Lynch, Lex Marinos, Natalie O’Donnell, Yumi Umiumare and others from the Roebourne Community.
3-6 July at Canberra Theatre
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Jada Alberts, Simon Gleeson, Trevor Jamieson, Derik Lynch, Lex Marinos, Natalie O’Donnell, Yumi Umiumare and others from the Roebourne Community.
CREDITS: Writer/Director Scott Rankin Set Design Genevieve Dugard Costume Tess Schofield Musical Director John Rodgers Sound Design Jeremy Silver Foley Sound Artist David Hewitt Choreography Yumi Umiumare Lighting Design Nicholas Higgins Video Benjamin Ducroz Creative Producer Debra Myers Associate Producer Elspeth Blunt Production Manager Neil Fisher
Hipbone Sticking Out spins the globe upside down and sets its teeth rattling to the tune of The Clash, The Stranglers, Britney Spears, sea shanties and traditional songs of the Pilbara in glorious six part harmony. Clothed in hi-viz work wear and set against the backdrop of Murujuga – the world’s largest outdoor rock art gallery - a stellar cast creates a tour de force story beginning in 1602 that places the Pilbara at the centre of world history.
In the town of Roebourne a young man, John Pat, scuffles with police, hits his head on the footpath and is left in a police lockup. He finds himself travelling through time from the beginning, meeting Greco/Roman Gods, tracing the spice routes, the exploration of the Indian Ocean, the paintings of Vermeer, the pop music of 1800’s, the coming of ghost people to Ngarluma country, slavery, pearling, new law, ancient law, and the mining boom of the present. During the performance John Pat’s family hold the truth of this story in their hands as witnesses. Like all Big hART’s pieces it will make you laugh and cry and touch you with its candid authenticity.
Created with the community of Roebourne by Scott Rankin and Big hART Hipbone is delivered by a dream cast including Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara), Derik Lynch (Yankunytjatjara), Lex Marinos (Greece/Wagga Wagga), Simon Gleeson (Scotland) Natalie O’Donnell (United Kingdom) and Jada Alberts (Yanyuwa/Larrakia). 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 mesmerising cosmopolitan work from the edge of the world.
Hipbone is produced by Big hART, who over the last two years has brought Canberra audiences to their feet with Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji. Now the third work in this trilogy has its world premiere in Canberra as part of Big hART’s residency at the Canberra Theatre Centre.
Hipbone forms part of the larger Yijala Yala Project which is supported and encouraged by cultural leaders and the creative talent of the community in the Pilbara. Woodside Pluto LNG is the principal sponsor of the Yijala Yala Project and Hipbone Sticking Out.
GLORYBOX
Queen Provocateur Moira FINUCANE and the world’s most addictive divas unleash their latest, hot-off-the-press exotic and inimitable Franken-routines and plunge into Paradise.
Dark angels, hair and feathers flying, ecstatic swans, naked circus, disco heaven, transcendent Tokyo, flesh and bone, hearts and music pounding … Paradise. Fresh off the plane from her triumphs in London, Brighton & Paris – Finucane returns with a grab bag of wild new work and a few global favourites.
London’s infamous red hanky stripper URSULA MARTINEZ; circus wild child JESS LOVE; Tokyo Terawatt YUMI UMIUMARE; Parisian dance siren HOLLY DURANT; backroom ballerina LILY PASKAS; bombshell songbird & Circus Oz ringmistress SARAH WARD as she’s never been seen before; and Moira FINUCANE herself, inspired by the museums of Paris, in predatory PARADISE
“reminds us of the inadequacy of simple applause” The Latest UK
Butoh Residential Workshop 26(Fri)-29(Mon) April 2013 @Wimmera River
Butoh Residential Workshop26(Fri)-29(Mon) April 2013 @Wimmera River
風景の声を聞く 'Tuning into landscape'
Lead by Yumi Umiumare With a local visual artist Anthony Pelchen
Butoh Residential Workshop26(Fri)-29(Mon) April 2013 @Wimmera River 風景の声を聞く
Tuning into landscape
Lead by Yumi Umiumare With a local visual artist Anthony Pelchen
Let us dive into the dirt and sand dunes! This popular residential workshop is to expand our body awareness,deepen our consciousness and unleash our internal expressions through a response to landscape. This 140 acre site nearby to 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 exercises for “tuning” into our own links between the external environment and the internal landscape, focusing also breathing,exploring our deep expression and consciousness of well-being. The stillness of the landscape will let us explore the deeper and authentic part of our "being" and cleanse our busy thoughts.
There is a special charcoal drawing session will be run by a local visual artist Anthony Pelchen.
Come and join us!
Cost:$330/300 (including vegetarian meal)
Please Book by 20 April as numbers are limited.
ダッショク・シェイク！DASSHOKU SHAKE!
舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」は、２０１２年メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバルでプレミアを迎えた作品で、その２週間公演は満員御礼、また昨年、ダーウィン国際フェス ティバルにも招聘され、オーストラリア・グリーンルーム賞（INNOVATION:革新的な作品）と、メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバル賞を受賞した。
舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」は、２０１２年メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバルでプレミアを迎えた作品で、その２週間公演は満員御礼、また昨年、ダーウィン国際フェス ティバルにも招聘され、オーストラリア・グリーンルーム賞（INNOVATION:革新的な作品）と、メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバル賞を受賞した。
「ショックと癒しがクロスする」という謳い文句で、うみうまれを中心に公演を重ねてきた「脱・SHOKU(色)」舞踏キャバレエシリーズは、１９９９年か ら展開され、今作「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」は、その第４作目。観客をある時は混乱に、またある時は爆笑と感涙へと導いてゆく、混沌と調和の同居したその舞台創りには定評があり、過去 のシリーズ作品、「DasSHOKU Cultivation!」(劇団GUMBOとの共演、２００３年)は大阪サンホールにて、また「DasSHOKU HORA!」（２００６年）はシドニーオペラハウスでも大好評を博した。暗黒舞踏の抽象の世界に、神話的やおとぎ話、底抜けに明るく風刺の効いたキャバレ エとをミックスさせた「舞踏キャバレエ」スタイルには、オーストラリでも高い評価を受けている。
今作品「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」では、震災を通して考えさせられた人間の「ゆれ」「ぶれ」「ずれ」「はぐれ」が深いテーマになっている。揺れる感覚、ぶれる思考、はぐれる アイデンティティー、ずれるコミュニケーション、そして「シェイク」した大地から喚起された様々な思いを、色彩豊かなキャラクター達が、踊り、演劇、歌や 語りを通して問いかけてゆく。
オーストラリアで活躍するうみうまれの舞踏と、大阪パワー炸裂、劇団GUMBO抱腹絶倒のコメディに、多彩なるオーストラリア人のパフォーマンスが加わり、その絶妙なバランスが激発する文字通りの日豪合作狂想劇。
「自分の心を揺らす」（ヤイコシラムスイェ）とはアイヌの言葉で「考える」と解釈されるようで、この作品を通し、演者、観客共、いかに自分達の心をシェイク（揺らして）ゆけるかが、作品の深いテーマとなっている。
批評抜粋
“ビジュアル、コンセプト共に豊かなこの作品は、「クレマスター」（マシュー・バーニーによる独特なスタイルの映像作品）より も面白い。（中略）うみうまれは私たちの住むこの街に、途方もない、ひどく面白い、全く素晴らしい舞台を持ってきてくれた。ハローキティのおしめをする特 大の赤子、唄ううんこ頭にファースト・フードの踊り。何が一番混乱したかと言えば、何故この作品がメルボルン国際フェスティバルの目玉商品になっていない かということであった。” The Age (オーストラリア有力新聞)
“想像を絶するような見た目に抽象的な動き、素晴らしいコスチュームに騒々しい音楽、そして、死と笑いを共に誘発するかのような不快な絵画的イメージに感嘆する” Herald Sun (メルボルン新聞)
“この作品のメッセージ性には意味深く差し迫ってくるものがある。混沌とした私たちの存在そのものに対する静かな沈思黙想のようなものを呼び覚ませる。” The Peril Magazine (メルボルン雑誌)
公演記録
TimePlace
2014年東京、大阪公演ツアー、宮城県南三陸地方にてワークショップ（劇団ガンボとのコラボレーション）日豪交流基金助成
2013年ダーウィンフェスティバル
The Amphitheatre, George’s Green
2012年メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバル
２週間公演 ＠fortyfivedownstairs
3 Minute Video Highlights
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Aftershocks
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Short Clip from Fundraising Event 2014
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Butoh Cabaret
The award-winning DasSHOKU Butoh Cabaret series that has been recognised by audiences in sell-out seasons around the world since 1999. The show gained rave responses from audiences and critically acclaimed reviews, receiving Green Room Awards for INNOVATION in cabaret category, and the Fringe Award – Innovation in Culturally Diverse Practice.
A Japanese Australian Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza
DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award-winning DasSHOKU Butoh Cabaret series which has been recognised by audiences in sell-out seasons around the world since 1999. The show gained rave responses from audiences and critically acclaimed reviews, receiving Green Room Awards for INNOVATION in cabaret category, and the Fringe Award – Innovation in Culturally Diverse Practice.
REVIEWS FROM THE SEASON PREMIERE
“…this is a visually and conceptually rich work that is much more rewarding than the Cremaster Cycle.. Umiumare gives our city an extraordinary, hilarious and actually beautiful gift. Expect outsize babies in Hello Kitty nappies, singing faeces and dancing fast food. Expect also to be a little confused as to why this work is not a central feature of the Melbourne Festival.” The Age
“transgressive imagery, abstract movement, stunning costumes, loud music and uncomfortable imagery that trigger both dread and laughter.” Herald Sun
.”..potent with the urgency for us all to create space for quiet reflection within our chaotic existence.” The Peril Magazine
CREDIT FROM THE ORIGINAL SEASON PERFORMERS
AUSTRALIA
Yumi Umiumare, Matt Crosby, Helen Smith, Willow J, Harrison Hall
THEATRE GUMBO
Kayo Tamura,Kenichi Mabuchi,Ryo Nishihara, Nono Miyasaka
FROM OSAKA
Hiromitsu Oishi, Chizuru Misaki (intere-P),Tomomi Nakayama(joli ma coeur),AYA (Osaka Shinsengumi)
PRODUCTION
Co-Director Yumi Umiumare & Kayo Tamura
Dramaturgy Matt Crosby
Set Design Ellen Strasser
Sound Design Dan West
Costume Design Kiki Ando and Theatre GUMBO
Lighting Design Tom Willis
Photo & Design Vikk Shayen
Photo Masami Kikuchi (Japan)
(original write up)
Be ready to get lost in this funky cross cultural emo shake up! DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award winning DasSHOKU repertoire – the unique culture-crushing dementia, which has been recognized by audiences in sell-out seasons nationally and internationally since 1999. Dasshoku means ‘to bleach’.
Butoh Punkess Yumi Umiumare ignites her next infamous DasSHOKU Cabaret, bursting from the shaking earth. Osaka’s legendary Theatre Gumbo, international guest artists from Japan plus four of Melbourne’s shock-toy acolytes bring things of darkness out into footlights. Jap-pop and white mysticism assault Buddhist Heart sutra! Comic! Bizarre!
Does devastation transform us, cleanse us or bleach us?
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2015Mildura wentworth arts festival
2014Japan Tour- Tokyo and Osaka, and workshop in Minani Sanriku
2013Darwin Festival
2012Melbourne Premire season at fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne Fringe Festival, winning Fringe Award and Green Room Award
TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
Please click here for technical specification and download the document
Photo by Vikk Shayen
3 Minute Video Highlights
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Short Clip from Fundraising Event 2014
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Aftershocks
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
DasSHOKU SHAKE! 27 September - 7 October, 2012
A Japanese Australian Butoh Cabaret ExtravaganzaBy Yumi Umiumare with Theatre Gumbo & local and international Artists. 27 SEPTEMBER - 7 OCTOBER 2012 "Wild extremes in fearless performance shock, fascinate..." The AGE (DasSHOKU Hora!)
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5.30pm
A Japanese Australian Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza
By Yumi Umiumare with Theatre Gumbo & local and international Artists.
27 September - 7 October 2012
"Wild extremes in fearless performance shock, fascinate..."The AGE (DasSHOKU Hora!)
WHERE & WHEN
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5.30pm $27 Full / $22 Concession $18 Preview (27 Sep) / $18 group of 6 people
Facebook Event
BOOKINGS
www.fortyfivedownstairs.com (03)9662 9966 - Click here to book. www.melbournefringe.com.au (03)9660 9666
ABOUT DASSHOKU SHAKE
Be ready to get lost in this funky cross cultural emo shake up! DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award winning DasSHOKU repertoire - the unique culture-crushing dementia, which has been recognized by audiences in sell-out seasons nationally and internationally since 1999. Dasshoku means ‘to bleach’.
Butoh Punkess Yumi Umiumare ignites her next infamous DasSHOKU Cabaret, bursting from the shaking earth. Osaka's legendary Theatre Gumbo, international guest artists from Japan plus four of Melbourne’s shock-toy acolytes bring things of darkness out into footlights. Jap-pop and white mysticism assault Buddhist Heart sutra! Comic! Bizarre!
Does devastation transform us, cleanse us or bleach us?
Photo by : Vikk Shayen
★★★★ "This is a riot... black humour, absurd juxtapositions and occasional poignancy with skills for thrills."THE ADVERTISER (Theatre GUMBO)
Photo by Masami Kikuchi
PERFORMERS
AUSTRALIA Yumi Umiumare Matt Crosby Helen Smith Willow J Harrison Hall
THEATRE GUMBO Kayo Tamura Kenichi Mabuchi Ryo Nishihara Nono Miyasaka
FROM OSAKA Hiromitsu Oishi Chizuru Misaki (intere-P) Tomomi Nakayama (joli ma coeur) AYA (Osaka Shinsengumi)
PRODUCTION
Co-Director Yumi Umiumare & Kayo Tamura Dramaturgy Matt Crosby Set Design Ellen Strasser Sound Design Dan West Costume Design Kiki Ando and Theatre GUMBO Lighting Design Tom Willis Stage Manager Rita Khayat Front of House Ballerina Masami Sato
Photo & Design Vikk Shayen Photo Masami Kikuchi (Japan)
Photo by : Vikk Shayen
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Photo by Masami Kikuchi
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012 From the shelter of an isolated and timeless existence in the vast desert centre of our country, to a confrontation with the strange new world of non-indigenous Australia, Trevor Jamieson traces his family’s story through the 20th Century.The phrase 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' has no exact Western translation; it loosely translates as 'I give you something, you give me something' and captures the spirit of this generous virtuosic piece of theatre.
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012
From the shelter of an isolated and timeless existence in the vast desert centre of our country, to a confrontation with the strange new world of non-indigenous Australia, Trevor Jamieson traces his family’s story through the 20th Century.The phrase 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' has no exact Western translation; it loosely translates as 'I give you something, you give me something' and captures the spirit of this generous virtuosic piece of theatre.
With a gentle touch, Trevor invites us into his family’s epic story, sharing this journey through word, song, movement and film of his family’s almost unbelievable encounters with the non-indigenous world. From his extended family’s strong cultural life, their first white contact, missionaries, the urgency of their confrontation with the Cold War, nuclear tests in the Australian desert and his own walk between two cultures today.
Directed by Scott Rankin
CREATOR T revor Jamieson
CAST Trevor Jamieson, Yumi Umiumare, Lex Marinos, Milyika Carroll and Renita Stanley
Solstice Celebration - Winter at Federation Square
You are invited to walk with us through spoken words and illuminated books, into folklore and newly created cultural mythology, warmed by market surrounds. Take one of the hand-made lanterns from the stage and participate in a beautiful lantern dance of a thousand twinkling lights. In Walking Through Words, acclaimed choreographers, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare lead a performance with nine community groups.
Take one of the hand-made lanterns from the stage and participate in a beautiful lantern dance of a thousand twinkling lights.
In Walking Through Words, acclaimed choreographers, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare lead a performance with nine community groups. Men from the Afghan community will share letters to the world and their families in the Afghan Men’s Shed and a group of young African women present Unveiling the Veil, where they respond through poetry to public perception about the Hijab. These Are The Projects We Do Together will entertain the kids with torch-led guerilla lighting, so get the family together to celebrate the Melbourne's winter solstice.
Where: Main Square When: Saturday 23 June, 5pm - 8pm Price: Free
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Transmute Butoh Caberet: University of Melbourne
Melbourne’s legendary Yumi Umiumare, leads student performers in the creation of a playful, transgressive and hyper-energized hybrid. Combining the physical extremes of butoh and the emotional intimacy of cabaret, Trans-Mute will reframe everyday stories as strange outlandish songs and dances.
Melbourne’s legendary Yumi Umiumare, leads student performers in the creation of a playful, transgressive and hyper-energized hybrid. Combining the physical extremes of butoh and the emotional intimacy of cabaret, Trans-Mute will reframe everyday stories as strange outlandish songs and dances.
Director/Devisor – Yumi Umiumare
Dramaturg – Tom Gutteridge
Designer – Ellen Strasser
Assistant Director/Sound Designer – Felix Ho
Lighting Designer – Matthew Seah
Lighting Mentor – Richard Vabre
Photography: Vikk Shayen
Caravan Burlesque
Dates: Wed, 9 May and Thur ,10, May7:30pm Creative Medium: Performance Creative: Caravan Burlesque
Location: Mesley Hall, Leongatha Shire Region: South Gippsland Shire
Main Contact: Sophie Dixon Phone: 5662 9202
EnTrance Sydney tour PerformanceSpace
‘A mystical collision of butoh and theatre.’ - The Age
‘EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.’ – Canberra Times
Performance in TOKYO Jan 2012 Earth Dimension Version 1
Shaking. Fluttered Down BY IKKO SUZUKI and YUMI UMIUMARE
12th(Thur) Jan 2012 19:00 OPEN 19:30 START Adult 2500 yen/ Concession 2000yen(drink included) Venue:KEN 4-8-3B102, Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (access) http://www.kenawazu.com/access.html
Tel&Fax 03-3795-1776 http://www.kenawazu.com
IKKO SUZUKI http://sites.google.com/site/suzukiikko/
土の面〜つちのおもて〜ヴァージョン１ 「揺れ」からこぼれ落ちたもの
鈴木一琥 and ゆみうみうまれ 2012年 １月１２日（木） 一般 2500円（ドリンク付き）／コンセッション ２０００円(＊学生、無職の方) 会場：KEN 4-8-3B102, Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 東京都世田谷区太子堂４−８−３B１０２ Tel&Fax 03-3795-1776 http://www.kenawazu.com
距離が「はぐれ」 背景が「ゆれ」 時間が「ぶれ」 方法が「ずれ」 情報が「こぼれ」た。
3.11 を通じて体験した混乱と問いかけを切り口にして 北半球在住鈴木一琥と、南半球在住ゆみうみうまれという マレーシア、マラッカフェスティバルで出会った異色の２人の ダンサーによる踊り、語り、対話と沈黙。 自分達の中に何が揺れたのか 人間が本当に自然の一部であるのならば 自分たちは一体何を失い、何を守るのか
大地の次元ーEarth Dimensionに身をおいたときに 踊りやダンスは一体何を意味するか そして、そんな壮大なテーマに身なんておけるのか？？今回？？
そんな問いかけを、オープンに、閉じないでシェアしておこうというイベントです。
Live event in TOKYO Dec 2011 Organized by Taiyodo
at Yudo（1920’s old style Japanese house/gallery) 3-20-21 Shimo ochiai, Shinjyuku-ku, Tokyo http://blog.yu-do.noor.jp/?cid=29508
3500yen/3000yen Booking mail@healingtaiyodo.com
Voice: Earth Voice Kyoko http://www.healingtaiyodo.com/ Dance: Yumi Umiumare http://www.yumi.com.au Percussion: Masa Yamaguchi http://tayuta.hiho.jp/ Guitar, Shakuhachi: Masaaki Aoyama http://aoyama-masaaki.com/
２０１１年をみんなで祝って締めくくるライブ』 ～私たちこれからも魂を揺らし続けていきたいね～
【日時】 2011年12月26日（月） 19：00（Open） 19：30（Start） ※ライブ終了後、三重ちゃんの愛情おむすびを囲みシェアリングの時間もあります 【出演】 アースボイス京子 / ダンス ゆみ うみうまれ パーカッション やまぐち まさ / ホーメイ・ギター・尺八 青山雅明
【場所】 都会の中のステキな古民家 「ゆうど」 （JR目白駅徒歩５分） 新宿区下落合3-20-21 / 03-5996-6151 【参加費】 予約3,000円 / 当日3,500円 【ご予約・お問い合わせ】 連絡先メールアドレス 「mail★healingtaiyodo.com」 ★を＠に変えてお送りください。
Talk You Me
Collaboration with Brunswick Women's Theatre, the project aims to provide a supportive, creative environment for all women, particularly women from Non-English Speaking backgrounds and other under represented groups, to explore the richness of their own lives through the use of theatre and performance skills.
When language is lost and new meanings sought, English becomes the second language and our human language is revived in an experimentation of movement, lyrics, rhythm and stories.
Artistic Director Catherine Simmonds in collaboration with
Yumi Umiumare- Choreography
Lynnelle Moran-Lyrics & Music
Mary Quinsacara-Rap & Rhythm
Riza Manalo-Multi Media
Yasmin Ferda Khan-Project Manager
Performed and co-devised by the women of Brunswick Women’s Theatre
The image photo by Eelin Cheah
Performance Dates
Thursday 10th November 1:30 pm
Visy Cares Learning Centre. 3-13 Hudson Circuit Meadow Heights
Friday 11th November 1:30 pm Kangan Batman TAFE Auditorium Pearcedale Parade BroadmeadowSaturday12th November 7:00pm
Glenroy Senior Citizens Centre 11 Cromwell St Glenroy
BRUNSWICK WOMENS THEATRE – DISCOVERING THE NEED TO SPEAK AND SPEAKING THE UNSPOKEN
Brunswick Women’s Theatre aims to provide a supportive, creative environment for all women, particularly women from Non-English Speaking backgrounds and other under represented groups, to explore the richness of their own lives through the use of theatre skills, with the aim of developing empowerment through increased self esteem, enhanced social networks and a greater understanding of the personal and collective experiences of women. And through the fruition of these processes, to provide the community with performances that are not only expressive of the women in the group, but also of a high artistic quality.
The Intent of The Brunswick Women’s Theatre: There is no process of audition in BWT and performances do not rely on talent, but on the importance of the story to the group and the broader community. BWT is not a fixed group. With every new project women are sourced through community networking, assisting women from marginalised communities to enhance self esteem and relieve experiences of social isolation. Through public performances, Brunswick Women’s Theatre successfully promotes community understanding of such issues as displacement, trauma, discrimination and survival for culturally and linguistically diverse women. Brunswick Women’s Theatre 2011
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”
Return to Sender
Curated by Paul Gazzola & Jeff Khan Wed 23 – Sat 26 Nov, 8pm Preview Wed 23 Nov Opening Thu 24 Nov
[BAY 20, CARRIAGEWORKS] $30 Full / $20 Members and Concessions $15 Student Rush Fri 25 Nov (from box office on the night only)
Return to Sender is a collection of eight short dance works exploring the influence of international creative relationships on the practice of Australian dance artists.
For Return to Sender, curators Paul Gazzola and Jeff Khan have invited eight Australian dance-makers to devise new works that recreate the choreography, score, or essence of an international peer’s work. The resulting works range from reconstructed solos, to collaborative texts, to performed instructions. Together, they provide an insight into the creative collaborations that influence Australian artists’ work, but which take place overseas and are often out-of-sight to their audiences due to distance, geography and expense.
Artists: Alison Currie, Nadia Cusimano, Matthew Day, Atlanta Eke, Jane McKernan, Latai Taumoepeau, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare.