Dance review: ButohOUT!
“ButohOUT! feels like Samuel Beckett meets Beyoncé via Eraserhead”
Daily Review, 2019
Review: Popup Tearoom Series
“…Hiddenness was not an issue in Yumi Umiumare's Popup Tearoom Series, which subverted the famous calm and precision of the tea ceremony.”
The Age, 2016 LINK
Review: Butoh/Cabaret
“DasShoku SHAKE! (by Yumi Umiumare) immerses us in an extreme state in which people have experienced the unimaginable. The butoh-trained performers are compelling. When they shake from their core they seem almost inhuman.”
Real Times, 2013 LINK
Dance review: Dasshoku Shake!
“Detonating both the orientalist view of Japan and Japan's view of itself, Umiumare gives our city an extraordinary, hilarious and actually beautiful gift.”
The Age, 2012 LINK
Review: Theature
“Umiumare gives our city an extraordinary, hilarious and actually beautiful gift.”
The AGE, 2012
Dance review: Colour-Fool, Dancehouse
“Umiumare [has] created a unique expression of Butoh that’s become part of Melbourne’s cultural currency.”
ArtsHub, 2021 LINK
Review: ButohOUT
“transgressive imagery, abstract movement, stunning costumes, loud music and uncomfortable imagery that trigger both dread and laughter.”
Herald Sun, 2012
Review: EnTrance
“EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit….”
Canberra Times, 2011
Review: EnTrance
“En Trance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by the irresistible logic of dreams.”
The Age, 2009 LINK
Review: Butoh
“Watching Umiumare dance butoh is like watching a stainless steel mannequin ram a knife into a toaster.”
Vibewire on line Melbourne, 2005
Review: Butoh, Copenhagen
“Yumi Umiumare was not animal on the stage, on the contrary, she seemed like a deformed human being. …(she)posses the ability to make their extreme bodies disappear and transform into Butoh power. Or to make the earth disappear.”
Information, Copenhagen 2003