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22 (Sun) Dec 2024
At Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Yumi has great opportunity of choreographing and performing at the annual event of the Tenri University Dance Club, Nara Japan, renowned for winning numerous awards due to the high quality and creativity of their dance.Yumi has been staying in Nara for 2 weeks in December, to create and perform a piece, collaborating with 22 dancers and 18 Gagaku musicians to present it on the grand stage of Centennial Hall in front of an audience of 1,500!!
Workshop 9 (Sat) November 2024 10:00-16:00
@Studio Sun and Moon in Yotsuya 9500 yen
Performance 9 (Sat) Nov 2024 @19:00
(Owari contains OWARI終わり: finishing, and WARU割るcrack open, and 悪naughty）
Performance 16 (Fri) Nov 2024
followed by:
Workshop 17 (Sat) Nov 2024
@BUTOHSFERA, Fundacja Pompka, Warsaw, Poland
BUTOH KAI 6 begins with the performance "Tea Trance" by the Japanese dancer YUMI UMIUMARE living in Australia. The day before the workshops, on November 16, you will be able to see it free of charge thanks to funding from the Mokotów District Office/Warsaw Railway Station). Sunday, November 17, we encourage you to take part in workshops.
23 (Sat) & 24(Sun) Nov, 2024 10:00-12:00
@Arashi Collective Movement Center, Vienna, Austria
Butoh for unlocking Our Inner Beast - For All Dance Abilities Bodies
(this is an inclusive workshop for people with and without disabilities)
Sat 23.11 & Sun 24.11, 2024
14:00 - 18:00
@Arashi Colletive Movement Center, Vienna, Austria
Creative Gate Way to Butoh through Ritual and Spirit
(this is for all dancers and performers and new comers.
Butoh Master in Vienna: Get Ready for this Experience!
Nov 30, 2024. Time: 20:00
Location: Das Lot Space, @das.lot Absberggasse 31, 1100 Wien Vienna
Join us for お茶酔い TEA TRANCE, a mesmerizing new experimental solo work by the talented Yumi Umiumare, Japanese Butoh Master one of the pioneers of this dance in Australia, blending the essence of Butoh, Japanese tea ceremony, and visual installation.
16 - 19 Oct 2024 | Melbourne Fringe Festival
Moira Finucane. Maude Davey. Yumi Umiumare. Mama Alto… and so much more. Part club. Part happening. Part party. Part transcendent ritual. Part self indulgent crap. All history in the making. Get up, dance or run! Finucane & Smith take over the ETU Ballroom for the last week of Fringe in an unmissable legendary future-spective.
Amazing dancers from TENRI University from Japan are coming next week to Melbourne, so we are organsing a night event, bit of Japan, with contemporary dance, music, tea and of course Butoh!
Please come along to see them!!
SUN 22 SEP 2024
6:30pm open / 7pm show starts
(approx 1 hour duration)
Venue:
@izakayabytamura BY TAMURA 田村笑店
343 Smith St, Fitzroy
Ticket at the door $15/$10
Sydney 1-Day Workshop 31 August 2024
Butoh for Connecting Your Body and Soul with Yumi Umiumare. Join Yumi Umiumare for a one-day Butoh workshop, open to all levels of experience Saturday 31 August, 10am-4pm Bankstown. Book Now
Exhibition and Performance Installations : Coffee & SerendipiTea. @ Bankstown Arts Centre, Sydney on until Saturday 7 September.
Teatime with Yumi FREE EVENT Book Here
Coffee & SerendipiTea Panel FREE EVENT Book Here
I've become puffy 'mother earth', surreally dancing (digitally) in this project in Adelaide. Fill The Earth 11 - 14 JUL 2024. Go and check it, if you are near by!
FOOL Moon Event — FREE ENTRY! ButohBAR in Association with ButohOUT! Sunday 12 May 2024 (Mothers Day), 6:30PM to 8:30PM. Venue: IZAKAYA BY TAMURA, 343 Smith Street, Fitzroy
ProximiTEA @Abbotsford Convent, April 2024
Proximi TEA was performed as a part of celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Abbotsford Convent in April 2024.
ButohBAR performance at a Bar in Fitzroy
Last Full Moon ButohBAR, contact Yumi to enquire about future Residential Workshops.
Workshops April/March 2024
Explore: Butoh, Ritual and Spirit workshop series by Yumi Umiumare.
Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to Adelaide, OZAsia Festival.
Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony.
SereniTEA
@Mona Foma , Feb 2023
At Fairy Dell, Cataract Gorge, Launceston
SereniTEA was performed as a part of Morning Meditation program in Mona Foma 2023/
30March-3 April 2023
@Raven’s Nest -Venus Bay, South Gippsland
Butoh, Drama, Voice with SPIRITS!!
with Special International Guest Artists from JAPAN!
Kayo Tamura and Kyoko Amara
Performed at FRAME in 2023 at Dancehouse
Performed by Yumi Umiumare, Kayo Tamura and Kyoko Amara
Installation by Jacqui Stockdale
Sound by Ai Yamamoto
Punk, playful, and exuberant, this is an intimately epic and profanely sacred ritual.
3 special workshop from 18 March- 3 April 2023
This is unique workshop series , exploring movement, text and voice, through 呪術 Jujutsu, Japanese notion of shamanism, translated as ‘Magic’. Yumi Umiumare is facilitating 3 workshop, with international guest artists from Japan, Kayo Tamura (a queen of comedy/shaman in theatre) and Kyoko Amara (clairvoyant/earth voice singer).
Butoh Residential Workshop
9 (Fri)-12 (Mon) December 2022
@Raven’s Nest -Venus Bay, South Gippsland (2 hours from Melbourne)
Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shaman Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.
Jujutsu Project is a research project by Yumi Umiumare, exploring Jujutsu, the Japanese notion of shamanism. Yumi works with three artists and five specialists, including a first nations artist, a celebrant, scientists, a veterinarian/animal communicator and artists from diverse backgrounds in Australia, Japan & USA via online and live meetings.
Yumi is running online Butoh sessions - Unlocking our InnerBeast! during Melbourne’s lockdown times in Aug and possibly extending to September 2021
Yumi is creating a new solo work Buried TeaBowl, an interdisciplinary work with dance, text, song and poetry, inspired by Japanese female dancer/shaman, Okuni in 1600’s. The work in progress was completed in Aug 2021, and will be premiered in a live and digital performance in 2022.
Wanna Be a Rabbit? the show by Weave Movement Theatre directed by Yumi Umiumare is postponed till 2022