Super-NaturalTEA @ Warsaw, Poland Sep 2019
Super-NaturaliTEA in Warsaw September 2019
Performance by Yumi Umiumare and, Adam Sōmu Wojciński, Teatr Limen Butoh: Sylwia Hanff, Marzena Brzezinska, Magdalena Jakubów and Anna Sulejewicz (guest) and Akitsu Orii (flute) during the International Day of Peace. It was really super-naturaliTEA! Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Super-NaturallTEA
@, the Służewski Culture Center, Warsaw, Poland September 2019
2-hour durational performance.
Super-NaturaliTEA - PopUp Tearoom Series
Performance by
Yumi Umiumare with the participation
Adam Sōmu Wojciński and Akitsu Orii(Flute)
the Limen Butoh Theater
Sylwia Hanff
Magdalena Jakubów
Marzena Brzezińksa
Anna Sulejewicz (guest).
PopUp Tearoom series offers various experiences through the rituals of tea ceremonies, installation and performances. Audience are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and pop-up performances will be happening during the rituals. The multiple performances will unfold over the tea ceremonies for audience to partake a bowl of Super-NaturaliTEA, pause& reflect and to be in the surreal dream-like performances.
Supernatural in dictionary : The caused by forces or the things that cannot be explained by science
The performance took place as part of the International Day of Peace under the auspices of the United Nations. The event is organized by the Heiwa Foundation, the Urasenke Sunshinkai Tea Road Association, the Umemi Foundation in cooperation with the Warsaw Mokotów District Office, the Japanese Embassy, the Służewski Culture Center, and the UN Information Center in Warsaw
Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Butoh and Tea in Águeda, Portugal Sep 2019
Yumi is running workshop in Portugal and Poland, presenting her PopUp Tearoom Series in Agueda, Portugal 13 September and Warsaw. Poland 21 September 2019.
Butoh and Tea in Europe- workshop and performances
10-13 Sep 2019 Workshop and performance in Portugal
@Casa de cha parque municipal alta vila, Águeda
Hosted by AgitaLab LINK
Yumi has got an opportunity of the artist in residency at Casa de in the Alta Vila Park, Águeda, is one of the projects of the Association Improvise and Organize annually supported by the Municipality of Agueda.
The Residence was offered artists several creative spaces and presentation opportunities to an audience, in exchange for the participation in events involving the local community, such as workshops and open studio.
LiNK: ALTA VILA HOUSE PARK_IVV_TEA ROOM
UnpredictabiliTEA @Bochum, Germany Sep 2019
PopUp Tearoom Series - UnpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
1 Sep 2020
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
PopUp Tearoom Series - unpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
with performance by local artists- Christian, Lila,Eva, Lukas, Walther and Rosi
1 Sep 2020
at Jahrhunderthall.
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
An der Jahrhunderthalle 1
D-44793 Bochum
Butoh Workshop in Bochum, Germany 28 Aug- 1Sep 2019
Yumi is running a Butoh workshop at Bochum, Germany, 28 Aug- 1 Sep 2019
Butoh for Puppeteers
28 (Wed) August to 1(Sun) September
10 am to 4 pm
Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum, Germany
Butoh for Puppeteers
Dates: Wednesday, 28th August to Sunday, 1st of September
10 am to 4 pm
Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum, Germany
240€ (200€ for students)
Facilitated by an acclaimed Japanese Australian Butoh dancer and choreographer Yumi Umiumare, this workshop will introduce various Butoh philosophies, including
在り方 Being-individual body presence
重力 Gravitating
感覚 Perceiving
空間 Spatial elements, both internal and external
ため Accumulations, Isolation and sensation
間（ま） 'Ma' sense of emptiness, Active blankness, Active pause
記憶 Memoryand Poetry
型/面 Form and Mask
摸写/反復 Copy and Repetition
想像/創造 Imagination to Creation
Yumi leads workshops to stimulate and uncover participants’ own unique and authentic movements, working through objects, images, narrative and abstraction. Unfolding the expression of ‘laughter’ in different contexts, participants have the opportunity to create sequences, emerging from their personal poetry and movements using narrative, metaphor and rituals.
The word for laughter in Japanese, warau 笑い comes from the verb wareru 割れる – to break, crack or split.
Unexpected Laughter can open up our daily corsage – and a ritual for a common transformation can start.
We are going to work in an industrial space, so please be prepared to protect your against cold.
Simple and delicious vegetarian/vegan foods are prepared for 6 € per day.
The class will be hold in English.
The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
About Yumi
Organised by Sara Hasenbrink
INTERNET: www.hasenbrink.org
TeL: 3232634
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(in German)
utho für Puppenspieler mit YUMI UMUIMARE
Das japanische Wort für Lachen 笑い WARAU entstammt dem Verb wareru 割れる – übersetzt ins Deutsche: AUFBRECHEN AUFPLATZEN
An vier Tagen im August wird in der Zeit von 10 bis 16 Uhr in dern Rottstraßen Kunsthallen die eskalative Wirkung des Lachens und Körperdeformationen durch zeitgenössischen japanischen Tanz erprobt.
Nicht bloß die dunkle Seite des Butoh, sondern gerade die unerwartet helle und grelle wird uns beschäftigt halten.
Kommt und laßt es krachen!
Die Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch.
Wir werden in einem ehemaligen Industriegebäude arbeiten, es gibt zwar einen
Holzboden - warme Kleidung kann zuweilen dennoch von Nöten sein.
Es gibt die Möglichkeit ein einfaches vegetarisches oder veganes Mittagsessen gegen 6€ vor Ort zu bekommen. Falls das gewünscht wird, bitten wir, dies bei der Anmeldung direkt mitanzugeben.
Zeit: 28 August bis 01. September 2019 von 10 bis 16 Uhr (Pause von 12:30 bis 13:30)
Ort: Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum
Preise: 240€ Normalzahlende 200€ Studierende
About YUMI
(photo from PopUp Tearoom Series, photo by Jodie Hutchinson)
Butoh weekend workshop- Unleash the Unknown
When: 13 (Sat)14(Sun) July 2019@10am-5pm
Where: TRELOARLAND studio: 87a Albert street Brunswick
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their familiar and unfamiliar elements of physical and spatial expressions through the unique philosophy of Butoh and beyond. Participants are encourage to dive into their ‘unknown’ territories for embracing the joyful moments of ‘unleashing’
Photo by Lukas Penny, weekend workshop ButohOUT!2019
When: 13 (Sat) and 14(Sun) July 2019@10am-5pm
Where: TRELOARLAND studio: 87a Albert street Brunswick
Price: $200/180 (Special winter price!!)
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their familiar and unfamiliar elements of physical and spatial expressions through the unique philosophy of Butoh and beyond.
Participants are encourage to dive into their ‘unknown’ territories for embracing the joyful moments of ‘unleashing’
The focal points in this workshop are;
在り方（Arikata)：Body presence- suspension and gravity
間（Ma)：Spatial exploration- space in between and active pause
溜（Tame): Accumulation, Isolation, Sensation
笑（Warai): Laugh till something crack open
生け捕り(Ikedori)：Catching ‘live’ and ‘row’ moments
想像/創造(Souzou)：Inspiration->Imagination->Creation
The workshop is open to all levels of experience and artistic disciplinary.
A limited number is available!
Booking and Enquiry
ButohOUT!2019@Abbotsford Convent 12March- 12May 2019
ButohOUT! 2019 is a festival to celebrate creative communities in Australia and beyond through the profound performance art medium of Butoh. 4 public workshops and 2 weeks performance season are held at Abbotsford Convent.
ButouOUT!2019 @Abbotsford Convent
Forbidden Laughter
禁じられた笑い
Abbotsford Convent
12 March - 12 May 2019
LINK
“The action of laughing is like the breaking of the stiff mask of ego.
When we laugh, the authentic spirit jumps out from deep inside of us”
Keiichi Ueno
ButohOUT! is an annual festival celebrating creative communities and the profound performance art of Butoh. Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh was conceived in Japan in the late 1950s during the social turmoil after the Second World War. It goes beyond the confines of specific culture, gender, status and religion, aspiring to universal expression that touches the true nature of humanity.
ButohOUT! 2019 will challenge the commonly held conception of Butoh as dark and grotesque, and will ask: “Can the audience laugh at Butoh? Can we portray comedy in Butoh?” In the Japanese language the word for laughter warau 笑う comes from the verb wareru 割れる- to break, crack or split.
Exploring the theme, ‘Forbidden Laughter’, ButohOUT! 2019 will focus on surreal comedy. The Butoh will draw upon cabaret, bouffon, burlesque, physical theatre and visual art installation.
Open to experienced dancers, newcomers, children and families, the ButohOUT! program presents an exciting opportunity for participants and audiences to learn from expert practitioners and experience this unique performance arts form. Workshop participants have the opportunity to receive mentoring and present original solo and group works at the Convent during the public performance season in May.
Artistic director Yumi Umiumare
Producer Takashi Takiguchi
Dramaturg Maude Davey
Visual artist Pimpisa Tinpalit
Funded by Creative Victoria
Presented in partnership with Abbotsford Convent Foundation
Photography Vikk Shayen
WORKSHOPS
12 March - 16 April 2019
"Breaking the Dark Mask"
29 March - 31 March 2019
5 April - 7 April 2019
Convent Kids presents: Peek-A-Butoh
23 March 2019
2 - 12 May
Industrial School,
Abbotsford Convent
PopUp Tearoom Series @ Abbotsford Convent Open Spaces 2018
PopUp Tearoom Series at Abbotsford Convent' Open Spaces 2018
CuriosiTEA : Nov 17(Sat) 2 – 9pm & 18(Sun) 12 – 6pm @ Oratory, Sacred Heart building
'CuriosiTEA' Pop-up Tearoom at Abbotsford Convent' Open Spaces 2018
Nov 17(Sat) 2 – 9pm & 18(Sun) 12 – 6pm @ Oratory, Sacred Heart building
A fusion of Butoh, dance, performance and installation, with classical and contemporary Japanese tea ceremonies, audiences are invited to come and go, pause and reflect. As long ago as the 16th century, tearooms were created in war zones, with the tea ceremony functioning to relieve emotional stress and restore social order. Curious about what sort of ‘tea’ we can make today, Yumi invokes the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ or ‘active pause’ and serves you a bowl of 'curiosiTEA' with an element of surprise and provocation. Yumi is behind the dyanamic ButohOUT! Festival, held annually at the Convent and regularly performs and producers work onsite.
Dance Massive Site Responsive Showcase, presented by Abbotsford Convent and Ausdance Victoria as part of Dance Massive 2019.
Image: Anne Moffat
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
Tea Break
TEA BREAK is a new full-length solo work in development, combining dance, spoken words and multimedia. Blending Butoh, Tea and visual theatre, Yumi explores the space between rituals and daily routines of drinking tea.
TEA BREAK is going to be a Yumi's new full-length work, combining dance, spoken words and multimedia. Blending Butoh, Tea and visual theatre, Yumi explores the space between rituals and daily routines of drinking tea. She shifts into the abstract and experiments with the forms and structures of tea ceremony, moving from the sedate to the dramatic, real to surreal, and playful to macabre, a journey into life and death, evoking the spirit of Butoh.
TeaBreak, 30 min solo dance version, was shown in March 2017, as a part of Evocation of Butoh in Asia TOPA, and creative next development for visual elements will be in 2018.
To find out more about showing this work, get in touch with yumi.
Feedback quotes from
the creative development
“Grounded and surreal, totally unpredictable, with some extraordinary physicality in the movements. I loved the humour and the tension and the danger and the energy and how the piece was so utterly unpredictable. A real pleasure and inspiration”
“Cup cracks, composure crumbles in a brush stroke of sickly green”
“Witnessing Yumi's ongoing tea ceremony developments was wonderful, challenging, dangerous and exciting. …Enjoyed the subversion of the formal ceremony and the domestic connotations; and how the transformations reconnected to the elemental, natural, spiritual and physical.“
ポップアップお茶室シリーズ
ポッ プ・アップお茶室シリーズはアーティストや様々な分野の人たちの出会いの場で、「茶事」を通してお互いのアイディアを交換できるクリエイティブな場です。 その空間は、実際のお茶室であったり、仮想のものであったり、また、シュールな映像であったりします。お茶を通してRITUAL(儀式)やパーフォーマンスの可 能性を探り、また「未知の」ことを受け入れて遊びます
“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）
イムズホール（イムズ9Ｆ）
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Tel: 092-733-2001
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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
