Pop-up Tearoom Series
The pop-up TEAroom series offers various experiences through the rituals of tea ceremonies, installation and performance. Audiences are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and pop-up performances will be happening during rituals.
ゆみうみうまれin北海道！ ワークショップ、身体表現・誰でもダンス！
北海道にゆみ・うみまれが上陸し、誰もが大らかに身体表現ができるワークショップと、そこに参加する生徒たちと共にBUTOH パフォーマンスを行います。パフォーマンス会場は、知る人ぞ知る「坂会館」、そこはマネキン、骨董品、昭和を思わせる数々の逸品が所狭しと並べられている、ビスケット工場と併設されている不思議な博物館。乞うご期待！
北海道にゆみ・うみまれが上陸し、誰もが大らかに身体表現ができるワークショップと、そこに参加する生徒たちと共にBUTOH パフォーマンスを行います。パフォーマンス会場は、知る人ぞ知る「坂会館」、そこはマネキン、骨董品、昭和を思わせる数々の逸品が所狭しと並べられている、ビスケット工場と併設されている不思議な博物館。乞うご期待！
ゆみうみうまれin北海道！
ワークショップ、身体表現・誰でもダンス！ ４月９日（土）１０：００－１７：００ ＠スタジオジャパン 札幌市中央区南3条西１丁目３－３マルビル３F
BUTOH パフォーマンス: ダンスとふしぎな白昼夢 ４月１０日（日）会場１６：００開演１６：３０ ＠レトロスペース坂会館 札幌市西区二十四軒３条７－３－２２
目の前のものが踊っているのか 見ている人が踊っているのか 踊っている人が見ているのか これが夢なのか 現実が夢なのか 白昼に見る夢 夢に見る白昼 からだが勝手に動きだす こころが勝手に笑い出す たましいが勝手に踊り出す白昼夢ツアー ちょっと変で、 ちょっとズレてて、 ちょっとはみ出てて、 ちょっと歪んだりしていて、 ちょっと見捨てられたりしているけど、 見るとなんだかワクワクして こころに響き たましいが喜ぶ「不思議な白昼夢のツアー」に参加してみませんか？
ダンス・振付: ゆみうみうまれ ダンサー：博物館の小物、ワークショップの生徒たち、観客 写真：林下郁夫
RecyclabiliTEA@ Lospalos, Timor-Leste
Yumi visited Timor-Leste as artist-in-residence with Lospalos-based NGO Many Hands International. She collaborated with local artists and the community in creating a site-specific pop-up Tearoom space.
Yumi visited Timor-Leste as artist-in-residence with Lospalos-based NGO Many Hands International. Yumi seeks to observe and learn about Timorese culture, especially ideas around ritual and magic. In Lospalos, Yumi collaborated with local artists and the community in creating a site-specific pop-up Tearoom space. She has worked with established artist Cesario Lourdes, his students in Many Hands youth arts program and dancers from local performing groups at the Centro Cultura Lautem (Cultural center in Lautem). They have created the unique tearoom installation space from the street rubbish with plastic packets, waste bottles, cans and thrown cigarettes packets.
Members of the community were invited to participate these creative interactions.
Public showing for PopUp Tearoom- RecyclabiliTEA 15(Fri) July from 2pm-5pm at Centro Cultura Lautem, Lospalos 18(Mon) July 3-5pm in the main street in front of the mural done my Many Hands youth arts program
Photo by members from Many Hands International, including Corry and Cesario Lourdes Thanks for the local participation including Sr Jose Monteiro ,District administration
SereniTEA@ Manila Bay, Philippines
As a part of artist in residency in 98B in Manila, Yumi has collaborated with local artists to create a pop-up tearoom as a public interaction, in the busy tourist area at the Manila Bay.
As a part of artist in residency in 98B in Manila, Yumi has collaborated with local artists to create a pop-up tearoom as a public intervention, in the busy tourist area at the Manila Bay. Yumi has also create pop-up tearoom spaces in Jeepney, one of the most popular public transport in the Philippines, and also in the campus of the University of the Philippines.
Credit: 98 COLLABoraroty , Joseph Gabriel, Anjo Bolarda Thanks to Marika B. Constantino, Ling Quisumbing Ramilo, and Riza Manalo
Photo by Joseph Gabriel and Anjo Bolarda
PopUp Tearoom Series@ FOLA
2 -10 March @ Arts HouseDurational performance ins dreamlike installations with a Japanese tearoom.Through a series of tea ceremonies, Yumi and her collaborating artists invite you to ingest their unique teas of sereniTea, deformiTea, sensualiTea and more!
一服いかがですか ?Would you like a cup of tea? Enter a dreamlike installation space, where traditional, surreal and virtual tearooms pop up unannounced. Through a series of tea ceremonies, Yumi Umiumare and her collaborating artists invite you to ingest their unique teas of sereniTea, deformiTea, sensualiTea and more. Traditionally, tea-ceremony rooms had a small door which visitors bowed to enter, dropping the hierarchies of the world outside. In times of war, Medieval Samurai had to leave their swords outside as the tearoom provided relief from the emotional stress and social disorder of the battlefield.
Curious about what sort of ‘Tea’we can make today, Umiumare invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’ to explore deep presence in spaces that can be simultaneously reflective and provocative
Where Warehouse@ArtsHouse ,North Melbourne Town Hall When 2(Wed),3(Thur),4(Fri) 5pm-10pm, 5(Sat)2pm-7pm 9(Wed),10(Thur),11(Fri) 5pm-10pm
It is 5hours durational performance and installation, as a part of FOLA. Audiences are invited to come and go throughout the session.There are various experiences to be had throughout each PopUp Tearoom Series. Each session features daily special performances by guest artists.Keep your eye out for Tearooms, they can PopUp anywhere!
Created by Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Adam Wojcinski and Gregory Lorenzutti
Performance by Yumi Umiumare and Gregory Lorenzutti Music by Dan West Video Projection by Bambang N Karim Special Guest: Shoso Shimbo(Ikebana), Yuka Discobeans Tearoom by Zen's Studio Booking Detail Vimeo Link
Butoh Open Class on Wednesday
Butoh Open Class on Wednesday10am-1pm 3 Feb-2 March 2016(3,10,17,24Feb and 2 March) @ Bottoms Up! Studio, 3 Pitt St Brunswick
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Butoh Open Class on Wednesday 10am-1pm 3 Feb-2 March 2016(3,10,17,24Feb and 2 March) @ Bottoms Up! Studio, 3 Pitt St Brunswick $20/class Action and Inaction >Aerobi Butoh- Continuos exercise through various Butoh techniques >MA(間)-Active pause, silence and stillness >Kanki - circulation of energy(換気), joy(歓喜）and evocation(喚起） You can drop by for the class and no dance background required!
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Mapping in Melaka and Melbourne
Performing in Melaka Festival(Malaysia) and Mapping Melbourne 2015, exploring short work, pop-up tearoom series and site specific performances.
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Our memories are like a heritage but our brain could hemorrhage. White Day Dream is a series of experimentations of visual poetries inspired by Yumi’s own experience of her brother who had a cerebral hemorrhage. Our idea of reality blurs fluctuates and we try to substitute it with our own visionary fantasy and imagination. Is it really happening right in front of us or are we daydreaming? What if our piled up memories were suddenly erased.
PopUp Tearoom Series Pop-up Tearoom series is an experimentation of site-specific performances/installation, exploring surreal, mysterious, slightly odd and ‘mismatched’ tea ceremony in the middle of town. The pop up mobile space will be appeared in the different locations in order to create ephemeral and dreamlike spaces. Viewer’s perspectives and their internal feelings are purposely provoked and it activates cultural encounters and personal interactions.
Date: Friday, 27 November 2015 Time: 4:30PM Venue: Site 2
Mapping Melbourne: Luminous Lunas Return!
Wed 2 Dec, Summer Night Market, 8pm-10pm Thu 3 Dec, State Library Victoria Forecourt, 8pm-10pm Fri 4 Dec, Federation Square, 8pm-10pm
Admission: FREE
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HumidiTEA@ Melaka festival, Malaysia
The pop up tearoom space has appeared in front of the historic building of Melaka, St Paul church to create ephemeral and dream like space.
The pop up tearoom space has appeared in front of the historic building of Melaka, St Paul church to create ephemeral and dream like space. As a contemporary ritual, Yumi has served many bowls of tea to the tourist, artists and general public to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions Melaka Festival PopUp Tearoom Series
Credit: Kavisha Mazzella, Andy Green and other local people and visitors whom Yumi served tea to!
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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DiversiTEA in Europe
Aug/ Sep 2015 PopUpTearoom in Europe- Germany,Poland, Czech Republic and Italy,
Over 6weeks in Europe, while Yumi has participating several international workshops and events, Yumi has experimented small tea ceremonies in each location.
GERMANY-BERLIN
An informal show and tell @ Tatwerk, a theatre space in Berlin, presenting a footage of Yumi's journey in Europe and Japan over 2month, combining with rituals of tea ceremony.
GERMANY-BROELLIN
After being as a one of choreographers in ‘eX..it!’ international Butoh exchange project in Schloss Broellin, she conducted a ritual of serving bowls of tea to the teachers and participants, as deparCHA tea. In the small room of the residency, setting up tea set on the yoga mat. Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃1@Schloss Brollin Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃2@Schloss Brollin
POLAND/ ITALY
POLAND-Visiting Krakow to exchange ideas and collaborate with local Polish/Australian visual artist. ITALY-Yumi conducted an intensive Butoh workshop in Ancona, Italy, and searving bowls of tea in the local residency. In the Yoga room at the local residency in Ancona, Italy
Departure(Depar茶) Tea＃4@Ancona, Italy
CZECH REPUBLIC- CHRIBSKA
As a participant of ‘Bohemia Rosa' project in Czech republic-workshop focusing body, site and landscape run by Milos Šejn & Frank van de Ven, Yumi has explored to create tea ceremonies/ rituals in the middle of the national park near Chribska, incorporating the elements of nature -water, earth, leaf, moss and other organic materials.
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.
SurrealiTEA/AbsurdiTEA@ Kinosaki, Japan
PopUp Wonders @ Kinosaki International Arts Centre, JapanYumi and collaborator, a visual artist Riza Manalo undertook an intensive two-week residency at Kinosaki International Art Centre, to explore the metaphor of reflection in relation to nature, personal rituals, symbolic objects and the production of ephemeral spaces. ‘Pop-up Wonders’ examined and responded to the history of Kinosaki’s natural healing waters/hot springs, man-made tourist attractions and visitors social activities. With invited Japanese and Australian artists, the pop-up mobile spaces were explored the relationship of objects to movement,personal narratives, tea ceremony and cultural experiences. They have also conducted an artist talk where they provided insight into their individual practice and also discuss their artistic engagement, approaches and inspiration throughout our residency in Kinosaki.
Invited artists: Adam Hatsu-Shin(Tea Artists from Australia) , Kyoko Hirobe(Voice Artists from Tokyo), and Hisako Tsuzuku(Calligrapher from Hyogo)
Photo by Ivan Kovac, Yuichiro Yoshida(Kinosaki International Arts Centre), Igaki Photo Studio
ちょっと変なもの something odd ちょっとズレたもの something not fitted in ちょっとはみ出たもの something not matching ちょっと歪んだもの something bend ちょっと欠けたもの something missing or broken ちょっと見捨てられたもの something abandoned そんなワクワクと、とびだす不思議を探すエクスペリメント Experiment for seeking the excitement and ‘pop-up wonders’.
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
PhysicaliTEA
PopUpTearoom @ Lucy Guerin Studio
PhysicaliTEA
Yumi was working with Adam Hatsu-Shin, her teacher for tea ceremony, and her collaborator as a performing artist.They had one-week residency at Lucy Guerin studio, inviting 16 artists including dancers, videographers, Ikebana artist and Zen monk and many others. They have had several durational improvisations combining rituals of tea ceremony, physical expression of Butoh and dance.
Some participants have also joined to the improvisation and shared the feedbacks.
Quotes from the participants
“..suspended state of gratitude. The experience made me feel calm, inquisitive, slower somehow..”
"Movement freedom contrasted clarity of ceremony..After feel great respect everyday life + the unexpected"
“The intensity of sensation. Sweet bitter edging on my bones.”
POP UP WONDERS「とびだす不思議！」＠城崎
城崎国際アートセンター共催 POP UP WONDERS 「とびだす不思議！」パフォーマンス オーストラリア、メルボルン在住のアーティスト、ゆみ・うみうまれとリザ・マナロが、城崎の街中に不思議でシュールな空間を創り出す「ポップアップ・ワンダーズ：とびだす不思議！」。
城崎国際アートセンター共催 POP UP WONDERS 「とびだす不思議！」パフォーマンス オーストラリア、メルボルン在住のアーティスト、ゆみ・うみうまれとリザ・マナロが、城崎の街中に不思議でシュールな空間を創り出す「ポップアップ・ワンダーズ：とびだす不思議！」。城崎国際アーツセンターにアーティスト・イン・レジデンシーで滞在中に、現地から 様々なインスピレーションを得て、 風呂桶や鏡を使ってのインスタレーションや、黒いコウノトリが出没する奇想天外なパフォーマンスが街中で行われました。
パフォーマー ゆみ・うみうまれ（パフォーマンス・アーティスト） リザ・マナロ（ヴィジュアル・アーティスト） アダム・ウォジンスキ（パフォーマンス・アーティスト、茶道家） アースボイス京子（ヴォイス・アーティスト）※木のみ
日時：７月９（木）、１０（金）、１１（土）城崎の街中で３時−６時 場所：ポケットジオパーク、御所の湯の前 詳細：城崎国際アートセンター
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CreativiTEA
PopUpTearoom @ Multicultural Art Victoria CreativeTEA The second experimental process of PopUpTearoom series, continuing to collaborate with a visual artist Riza Manalo. Small number of audience mainly from arts industries were invited to experience the tearoom in an atypical office setting of Multicultural Arts Victoria, to share simple dialogue about ‘creativity’.
Some quotes from the participants
“..a transitional experience- crossing boundaries- shifting from modern world of stress, panic…The simple structure but a haven of tranquility in the ‘battlefield’ of the office .”
“My chest is light and my breath affected I’ve just been in a magic world-like when I was small and reality was transformed in a game, in church, in pictures, in art, and it was magical and profound and I wanted to live there. I have been inside an ancient world, where every tiny detail matters, and there is a relationship with beauty in the smallest things. This is deeply moving. When she tapped the bowl twice, tears came. I can’t say why-because when things really matter, when there is gentleness and respect and beauty in little things, something opens up- perhaps meaning. A place to stop and reflect- away from the intense”tea” of everyday life.”
“…It became very clear that there was no difference between the surreal-ness surrealiTEA of the created world outside in the office and the created world in the chashitsu(tearoom). The meditation is: which one tastes like the rapture of being alive.”
Photo by NObu
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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AuthenticiTEA/DeformiTEA
PopUpTearoom @ Multicultural Arts Victoria AuthenticiTEA/DeformiTEA
Through the fellowship from Australia Council, this was the first experimental process of Yumi's pop-up tearoom series, collaborating with a visual artist Riza Manalo. The audiences were invited to experience tearoom in an atypical office setting of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Inspired by the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ (space) and rituals of tea ceremony, visitors are invited to harness the simple rituals in silence and embrace deeper narratives in an atypical office setting.
Photo by Riza Manalo and Yumi Umiumare
