“What’s the…?” Pieces for small spaces at Lucy Guerin Inc.
Yumi was one of the 5 choreographers of the 5 days performance season of PIECES FOR SMALL SPACES at Lucy Guerin Inc, 13-17 Dec 2017.
PIECES FOR SMALL SPACES 2017, 13-17Dec 2017
5 CHOREOGRAPHERS, 5 NEW SHORT DANCE WORKS, 5 DAYS OF PERFORMANCES.
AMRITA HEPI | MARIAA RANDALL | NANA BILUS ABAFFY | RHEANNAN PORT | YUMI UMIUMARE
Pieces for Small Spaces is Lucy Guerin Inc’s annual in-house presenting season, offering a unique opportunity for five choreographers to challenge their practice, take risks and present a new short dance work as part of a professional performance season. This years program has been co-curated by Artistic Director Lucy Guerin, Resident Director Prue Lang and artist Mariaa Randall.
Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare
In collaboration with the performers: Gregory Lorenzutti, Lilian Steiner, Leisa Prowd
Music by Dan West and Murcof
Photograph by Bryony Jackson
Evocation of Butoh
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.
EVOCATION OF BUTOH
PERFORMANCE,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)
Workshop inquiry : info@takashitakiguchi.com
Sunrise at Midnight
"Sunrise at Midnight" (2002) is both a documentary portrait of Yumi Umiumare, a contemporary Japanese / Australian Butoh dancer, and a Japanese Ghost story set in the Australian Desert. Filmmaker Sean O'Brien and Butoh Dancer Yumi Umiumare make an expedition into the desert to experience and exorcise Noriko's lost soul.
“Sunrise at Midnight” (2002) is both a documentary portrait of Yumi Umiumare, a contemporary Japanese / Australian Butoh dancer, and a Japanese Ghost story set in the Australian Desert. Filmmaker Sean O’Brien and Butoh Dancer Yumi Umiumare make an expedition into the desert to experience and exorcise Noriko’s lost soul.
“The film is inspired by an historic photograph of a troupe of Japanese female performers who toured outback towns at the turn of the 20th century, and the tale of one of those performers, Noriko, who wandered into the desert and never came back. The photograph captures an unusual moment in Australian history when Japanese culture unexpectedly touched it. The photo is a formal portrait of four Japanese women who toured outback towns in the early 1900s. The women are known as karayuki-san, “women who work in a foreign land”, imported to entertain locals and itinerant Asian workers. Fascinated by this weird blend of Japanese exotica and Australiana, Yumi and I used this photo as a creative key, integral to the establishment of the character, the choreography, and the imagined story which takes place beyond the edge of the tableau. Influences include Japanese ghost stories, and Australian tales of naive innocents lost in the bush.
Both Yumi and I are drawn to the Australian landscape, Yumi as a performer and myself as a photographer, and the film’s narrative gave us the chance to journey inland. The landscape is used as a vast theatre for the performance, with Yumi carefully blocked within the “natural ikebana” – strange and abstract arrangements of wood, earth, stone, and sand.
While Yumi’s background is in Butoh, the performance also refers to the restrained minimalism of Noh theatre, and traditional Japanese folk dance.
The stylized nature of the drama and the stark quality of the locations leant itself to black and white. A primary influence was the work of Eikoh Hosoe, one of the first photographers to collaborate with Butoh performers in the field. Reflecting the cross cultural nature of the project, the filmic style pays reference to both Japanese cinema, specifically the films of Mizoguchi, and local cinema of the 1940s & 50s, (“Back of Beyond”, “Jedda” etc), particularly in its tonal depiction of the distinctive Australian light in the landscape.”
Director: Sean O’Brien
Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Performers: Yumi Umiumare & Tony Yap
Music: Satsuki Odamura, Anne Norman, Kazumichi Grime
Photography Sean O’Brien & Simon Von Wolkenstein
Editing: Nick Meyers
Production: Sean O’Brien
Film Awards:
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2002
Sydney Asia Pacific Film Festival 2002
白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream
この作品はうみうまれの「White Day Dream 」シリーズ の一環で、過去２年メルボルン、マレーシアで創作され、今回はその日本版。10年前、脳出血で倒れたうみうまれの兄の姿からインスピレーションを得て創り始めた作品群で、2016年10月にはメルボルンでハンディキャップを追う人たちの演劇カンパニーと共に作品が発表された。
踊りにくぜ！！II #7
2月4日［土］ 18:00（開場は開演の30分前）
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白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream
この作品はうみうまれの「White Day Dream 」シリーズ の一環で、過去２年メルボルン、マレーシアで創作され、今回はその日本版。10年前、脳出血で倒れたうみうまれの兄の姿からインスピレーションを得て創り始めた作品群で、2016年10月にはメルボルンでハンディキャップを追う人たちの演劇カンパニーと共に作品が発表された。高次脳機能障害者である兄の記憶は、日々構築されては消されてゆき、夢うつつのようでも、ある瞬間シャープによみがえったりもする。私たちの現実も、時におぼろげで変わりやすく、妄想や夢想にすりかえられたりもする。たくさんの情報が洪水をおこしてゆく昨今、いま私たちの目の前で起きていることは本当に起きている現実なのか、それとも夢うつつの白昼夢をみているだけなのだろうか。夢とは？記憶とは？
日常生活に見え隠れする風景を採集し、「REAL現実」と「SUREAL超現実」を行き来する。
不思議をおどり、おどられ、おどろかれ。
構成・振付： ゆみうみうまれ
舞台美術： 武内貴子
オブジェ：渡邊瑠璃
音楽：Dan West
表紙写真(ゆみ）：Gregory Lorenzutti
出演：安藤美由紀／小山田紘子／柴原あゆみ／高橋 創／武石夢香／中山将宙／福島由美
リージョナルダンス
札幌・仙台・福岡の各主催者が希望する振付家・演出家に依頼し、地元で募った出演者と新作を制作、当地で上演します。
写真：藤本彦
白い昼の夢〜White Day Dream
White Day Dream series explores the space between dream and reality. Like a dream itself, the work recalls subconscious emotions, where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected.This is a newly created 30min physical theatre work working with local Japanese visual artists and performers.
Shiroi Hiruno Yume~White Day Dream
as a part of Odori ni Ikuze!(We’re gonna go dancing) Festival
4th(Sat) Feb 2017
18:00 (open 17:30)
ISM Hall
1-7-11-11 ((F) Tenjin Chuo-ku, Fukuoka City, Fukuoka, Japan
Direction and Choreography : Yumi Umiumare
Stage Design : Takako Takeuchi
Stage Art Object : Ruri Watanabe
Sound : Dan West
Photography (Yumi’s portrait )：Gregory Lorenzutti
Performer: Miyuki Ando, Hiroko Oyamada, Ayumi Shibahara,Sou Takahashi, Yumeka Takeishi, Masahiro Nakayama
Shiroi Hiruno Yume~White Day Dream is a part of Yumi Umiumare’s White Day Dream series, which has been shown in Malaysia(2015) and most recently through the collaboration with Weave Movement theatre(performers with and without disability).White Day Dream series explores the space between dream and reality. Like a dream itself, the work recalls subconscious emotions, where things are at once unexpectedly linked and disconnected.
This is a newly created 30min physical theatre work working with local Japanese visual artists and performers.
Odorini Okuze II !! We’re gonna go dancing II！！is a national dance festival in Japan, run by JCDN (Japan Contemporary Dance Network).Yumi was appointed to be working as a choreographer in the regional dance program in Hakata, Fukuoka, Japan, creating a new working with local artists who were chosen by the public audition.
Photo by Gen Fujimoto
Butoh OUT 2018
ButohOUT! is a newly initiated festival activating local communities in Victoria by fostering artistic and cultural exchanges through the powerful performing arts medium Butoh. Butoh is widely known as a Japanese theatre and dance art form but in this festival, artists will integrate it in the context of uniquely Australian culture, history and landscapes.
PopUp Tearoom Series @ APAM Brisbane
PopUp Tearoom Series has been selected for a prestigious showcase opportunity in Brisbane at APAM 2018, presenting to national and international delegates.
PopUp Tearoom Series has been selected for a prestigious showcase opportunity in Brisbane at APAM 2018, presenting to national and international delegates.
Enter a dreamlike installation space, where Yumi Umiumare’s unique fusion of Butoh, physical theatre and spoken word are interspersed with classical and contemporary tea ceremonies.
Since the 16th century, tea ceremonies have been performed to relieve emotional stress and restore social order. Curious about what sort of ‘tea’ we can make today, Umiumare invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’. The deep sense of presence and silence afforded by the PopUp Tearoom offers participants a chance to pause and reflect, but in true Umiumare style there’s an element of provocation too.
FRI 23 FEB 2:00pm - 4:00pm
at Rooftop Terrace | Brisbane Powerhouse
2 hrs Durational Performance
Memory Tearoom@ Boyd Studio1 Residency
Memory Tearoom is a space to reflect and contemplate within an installation reimagining memories of migration. Collaboration between Yumi Umiumare and Brazilian Australian photographer/dancer Gregory Lorenzutti, they will share and collect stories of individual memories using photographs and rituals of tea ceremonies.
Memory Tearoom
“Photography can be simultaneously both a record and mirror or window of self-expression, the camera is generally assumed to be unable to depict that which is not visible to the eyes and yet, the photographer who wields it well can depict what lies unseen in his memory.” Eikoh Hosoe
Memory Tearoom is a space to reflect and contemplate within an installation reimagining memories of migration. Collaboration between Yumi Umiumare and Brazilian Australian photographer/dancer Gregory Lorenzutti, they will share and collect stories of individual memories using photographs and rituals of tea ceremonies.
The artists will invite colleagues from diverse cultural backgrounds to join the ritual and share their memories and photographs. The fluidity and limitless capacity in the tea ritual, through the physicality of the body and photographs are the gateway to access and activate the space to share the individual past memories and present experiences of place, city, and home.
The idea is to engage with public audience in a collective space starting from individual memories and stories towards a collective body in connection with the building, the city and its inhabitants. Photographs can capture ‘slices of memory’ and key aspects of our collective memories in our fast changing community. They will collect the transformative moments in each participant’s life including their own migration stories to Australia.
This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants and Creative Spaces programs.
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
Luminous Luna
Exploring femininity in both personal and cultural cliché ways, Luminous Lunas celebrates the beauty of feminine strength- from the softer essence of beauty, crazy pop icons, surreal and mystical characters to the mundane everyday housewives.
Light in Winter Festival at Fed Square, Melbourne (June, 2015)
Director/Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Set and costume Designer: Jennifer Tran
Performer: Sophia Constantine, Suhasini Seelin, Felix Ching Ching Ho
Composer: Dan West
Production Manager : Jerilee Cardoz
Exploring femininity in both personal and cultural cliché ways, Luminous Lunas celebrates the beauty of feminine strength- from the softer essence of beauty, crazy pop icons, surreal and mystical characters to the mundane everyday housewives. Through roving, statute-like stillness and performance installations in public spaces, three performers create strong visual impacts, surreal atmosphere, wearing luminous costumes with transformable props in the federation square in Melbourne.
Photo by Wilari Tedjosiswoyo and Yumi Umiumare
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!
peek-A-Butoh, Melbourne Fringe 2017
Step inside the playful and imaginative world of Japanese Butoh. With a smiling shaman as your guide, you’ll jump headfirst into a world of transformation and shape-shifting, unleashing your inner animal, object, kook and spook.
Presented by: Melbourne Fringe and ArtPlay
Created by: Yumi Umiumare
Synopsis
Step inside the playful and imaginative world of Japanese Butoh. With a smiling shaman as your guide, you’ll jump headfirst into a world of transformation and shape-shifting, unleashing your inner animal, object, kook and spook. Everyday games like peekaboo and hide and seek are given new life and new meaning under the watchful eye and guiding hand of acclaimed Butoh master Yumi Umiumare, who has been creating her distinctive style of work for over 25 years. It’s a mini afternoon of kooky dance, discovery and play as only Fringe can be.
All children must be accompanied by an adult
September 2017
EnTrance
EnTrance is a critically acclaimed full-length solo work with multimedia and installations within the metaphor of ‘the near shore’ of life and ‘the far shore’ of death. Award-winning dancer Yumi Umiumare performs the mystical conundrum of ‘the space between’ amid the hubbub of our city-life. ‘EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.’ Canberra Times 2011
EnTrance is a critically acclaimed full-length solo work with multimedia and installations within the metaphor of ‘the near shore’ of life and ‘the far shore’ of death. Using electronic costumes – practical television mask, fairy light fabric – karaoke and the decay to nothingness of the flour-encrusted butoh body, award-winning dancer Yumi Umiumare performs the mystical conundrum of ‘the space between’ amid the hubbub of our city-life.
White, vaulting installation, splits the space into the real and imagined, where Umiumare can play with the audience in fun Karaoke near-space or recede through the porous curtain to the far, into the psychological claustrophobia of mirrored city-scapes where full-wall media projections crowd.
Umiumare performs six seamless scenes exploring the personal and universal; like cultural distinctions of crying, depersonalisation in the metropolis, public/personal identity and transcending through death. The soundscape of the city isolates the living, accompanies the dead. Entrance assembles award-winning collaborators, Moira Finucane, Bambang Nurcahyadi, Naomi Ota and Ian Kitney and was itself nominated for a Green Room Award. EnTrance is the culmination of Umiumare’s collaborations, a diva focusing her powers for audiences to share in transcendence.
Credits
Created and performed by Yumi Umiumare
Dramaturge Moira Finuicane
Media Artist Bambang Nurcahyadi Karim
Installation Artist Naomi Ota
Sound Designer Ian Kitney
Costume Designer David Anderson
Lighting Designer Kerry Ireland
Performance History
April 2012 Performance Space season in Sydney
June /July 2011 The Street Theatre, Canberra
October 2010 NORPA (Lismore) & Brisbane
supported by Kultour’s 2010 Strategc initiatives
October 2009 OzAsia Festival
Aug – Sep 2009 Premiere in Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne
TECHNICAL SPECS
Please click here for technical specification and download the document
Please click here for En Trance Plan Set
Photo by Jeff Busby and Heidrun Lohr
Reviews
“..a mystical collision of butoh and theatre.”
“EnTrance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by irresistible logic of dreams.”
The Age
“All the world’s experiences, on a stage”
“she carries her audience on a journey through life, life after death, mental despair, physical delight, meditative sequences, cabaret breakouts, sweet sadness and ghoulish madness”
Jill Sykes (Review Link)
“..an Impassioned and beautiful piece, constantly rich and surprising in its emotional range, and finally very moving.”
The Australian
” Yumi Umiumare is a living treasure””Her solo show EnTrance delights and disturbs with its compelling blend of movement, dialogue and music. Movements of joy and comedy are counterpoint for the grotesque tradition of butoh.
Herald Sun
“..a mystical collision of butoh and theatre.”
“EnTrance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by irresistible logic of dreams.”
The Age
“.. challenging, moving, and the kind of theatre experience you rave to your friends about. Australia is fortunate to have such a talent as hers enriching our dance culture.”
Arts Hub
“…gut-felt provocation of passion and emotion.”
Aussie theatre
“This is one of the standouts of OzAsia (festival)”
Independent Weekly Adelaide
” a fascinating production that will move you emotionally and engage you intellectually”
GLAM ADELAIDE
“EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.”
“Confronting, evocative and artistically innovative”
Canberra Times
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INORI-in-visible
A solo dance work influenced from the personal experience from Hanshin Earthquake in 1996.The work was devised as prayer for the event. Directed and Performed by Yumi Umiumare. Stage & Set design Anthony Pelchen.
A solo dance work influenced from the personal experience from Hanshin Earthquake in 1996.The work was devised as prayer for the event.
Directed and Performed by Yumi Umiumare
Stage & Set design Anthony Pelchen
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2003 February Traces Post Butoh Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 August Dancehouse, Melbourne, Australia
2000 5th year memorial of Hanshin Earthquake, Town Hall, Vega Hall, and Women’s Centre in Takarazuka City
Reviews
“Yumi Umiumare was not animal on the stage, on the contrary, she seemed like a deformed human being. As with Kitt Johnson, they both posses the ability to make their extreme bodies disappear and transform into Butoh power. Or to make the earth disappear. ..”
Anne Middlelboe Christensen – Information, Copenhagen
REALTIMES Review
Photo by Brad Hick
Sakasama
Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. ‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down.
Artist Statement
The original inspiration of this work came from the ancient Japanese belief in Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them.
‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down. I explore the juxtaposition of my presence in Australia, experimenting with the neutrality of emotion and colour, and to manipulate rhythms.
I am in the maze.
I am wandering around the space between,
crossing the shores between here and there.
The world here looks normal and the world here looks abnormal.
The world there looks abnormal and the world there looks normal.
I am surrounded by these unknown voids.
The void creates some fluid and transparent shapes.
I dive into them and they disappear.
Dual, triple, multiple existences of my body floats here and there.
I keep wandering this unknown space between.
Credits
Media Art by Bambang Nurcahyadi
Original Video and Sound edited by Bambang Nurcahyadi and Ian Corcoran
Original Videography by Richard Back, Anthony Pelchen and Yumi Umiumare
Reviews
(The work is） bringing out a strong and weirdly accessible work, in which caricature is often an entrance door for a psychic depth of despair, loneliness, social world and nocturne world -constantly reminding us that obscurity pervades the trivial beauty of daily life-.
Idanca.net online review, by Sheila Ribeiro 2010
PERFORMance history
2009Sakasama(multimedia performance) in Pulse, @ Rooftop in Melbourne
2009Sakasama-reversed world(solo dance short work), I-DANCE Festival Hong Ko
2007Sakasama(collaboration with Bambang Nurcahyadi) Exhibited in OzAsia Festival at Arts Space in Adelaide Festival Centre
Digital image by Bambang N Karim
ZeroZero
ZeroZero was the second in a triptych and has premiered in Melbourne, in Feb 2013. Collaborated between Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, ZeroZero explores the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. It was presented in Bogota, Columbia (2014) and Melbourne International festival (2014).
ZeroZero was the second in a triptych and has premiered in Melbourne, in Feb 2013. Collaborated between Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, ZeroZero explores the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. It was presented in Bogota, Columbia (2014) and Melbourne International festival (2014).
PERFORMANCE HISTORY
2014 Melbourne International Festival as a part of Dance Territories
2013 EATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia
2013 Melbourne Season at fortyfivedownstairs
2011 Sydney Season as a part of Return to Sender at PerformanceSpace
2010 Tour to Arts Island Festival (Indonesia)and Melaka Festival(Malaysia)
2010 Initial creative development in Japan(Koyasan, Osore zan) and Malaysia(Melaka)
Reviews
‘..remarkable interplay of difference and harmony, touching, as their titles suggest, upon the sacred, the profane, rituals and the notion of ‘now.’ Realtime 2014
‘…strong, powerful and incredibly moving’
Arts Hub on ZeroZero at ‘Return to Sender’, Performance Space, November 2011
Photos by Heidrun Lohr
PERFORMERS
Creators/dance performers: Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumarec
Creator/media, sound, light performer: Matthew Gingold
Additional design and production realisation: Paula van Beek
Producer: Kath Papas Productions
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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