A special choreography for the Tenri University Creative Dance's annual performance
Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
19th Annual performance by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
Yumi is invited as a guest choreographer to create a short work for the Creative Dance Club in Tenri University, Nara, Japan. The title: ”結” Connecting our Feeling ”
This is their 19th annual event for the Creative Dance Club in the Tenri university, who has been winning several dance awards in the Japanese university competitions.
17(Sun) Dec 2023
Venue：Nara Century Hall (Main Hall) なら１００年会館 大ホール
Open ：17 :30
Start: 18: 00
Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to OzAsia Festival 28, 29 Oct 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.
A Proustian, unruly one-woman show, a work of pleasure and bite. — The Saturday Paper
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.
Drawing inspiration from the historical Japanese female entertainer, Izumo no Okuni, initiator of Kabuki theatre in early 1600s Japan, Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is a visceral adventure – a transcendent feast for the senses.
At the height of her creative prowess, Yumi Umiumare, Australia’s leading Butoh artist, unearths precious sacred female powers all too often buried throughout history. Yumi’s channelling of the multifaceted Okuni (who was so powerful, yet fragile and complex) culminates in a powerhouse solo performance that refuses to be defined by genre. Furious, funny, wistful, strange, and wild. Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI will carry you on a bizarre, unruly and heartfelt journey as only Yumi Umiumare can.
DETAIL AND BOOKING
CREATIVE TEAM
Created and Performed : Yumi Umiumare
Cinematographer/ Editor : Takeshi Kondo
Composer/ Sound Designer : Dan West
Lighting designer: Emma Lockhart-Wilson
Dramaturg/ Maude Davey
Provocateur : Moira Finucane
Producer : Kath Papas productions
Stage Manager: Celina Mack
Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Photo by Vikk Shayen
IN-VOCATION たまおこし Performance in FRAME: biennial dance festival
21(Tue) and 28(Tue) March 2023
3 shows ONLY 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.
When: 21 (Tue) March 7pm and 28(Tue) March 7pm and 9pm ( 3 shows ONLY )
Where: Dancehouse 150 Princes St Carlton North, Victoria
BOOKING
Entangling old world Kabuki mystique with volumetric 3D video, “IN-VOCATION たまおこし” summons the sacred power of female archetypes and deities.
In collaboration with a clairvoyant from Japan, local artists, and an international guest performer, Yumi Umiumare opens a Jujutsu 呪術 (Magic) portal to discover the colourful characters of OKUNI — an initiator of Kabuki Japanese theatre.
Evolving out of Yumi’s solo work, “Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI”, the team of mystics return to prod their collective memories and discover the many essences of the divine feminine.
Punk, playful, and exuberant, this is an intimately epic and profanely sacred ritual that incites an audience revolt of the spirit.
CREDIT
Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Performers: Yumi Umiumare, Kayo Tamura (Theatre Group Gumbo, Osaka), Kyoko Amara (Taiyosha, Iwate)
Visual Artist: Jacqui Stockdale
Sound Designer: Ai Yamamoto
3D Video: EMD Studio, Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne University of Technology.
Original score from “Buried TeaBowl – Okuni”: Dan West
Original video from “Buried TeaBowl – Okuni”: Takeshi Kondo
Image credits: “IN-VOCATION たまおこし” (2023), Yumi Umiumare. Photo by Vikk Shayen.
呪術プロジェクト
このプロジェクトは、メルボルン在住のアーティストゆみ・うみうまれによる研究プロジェクトで、日本のシャーマニズムともいえる呪術とアートの関係を探求するものです。
写真：Mathew Lynn・Vikk Shayen・Jodie Hutchinson | グラフィックデザイン：Takashi Takiguchi
このプロジェクトは、ゆみ・うみうまれによる研究プロジェクトで、日本のシャーマニズムともいえる呪術とアートの関係を探求するものです。
このプロジェクトを通して、ゆみは、科学者、アニマル・コミュニケーター、チャネラー、呪術スペシャリストや司祭者（冠婚葬祭の儀式と仕事にしている人）の日本人の専門家や、アボリジニの人を含む現地オーストラリアのアーティスト達との会話を通し、さまざまなエクスペリメントをしてゆきます。
私たちがこの地球上に生きていく以上、全てが人が人生のクリエーター（アーティスト）になれるのではないか？という望みとともに、この度のお話会を通し、スペシャリスト達から学んだ貴重なお話や、体験談をシェアしてゆく機会です
是非ご参加ください！
”このプロジェクトは「芸術は呪術だ！」という岡本太郎の言葉から触発を受けて始まったものです。３０年以上、アーティスト・芸術家として生きてきた私の目に、再びこの言葉が目飛び込んできたのも、「呪術的パワー」をアートの根本として捉え直してみたい、という渇望のようなものからです。アートがエンターテーメントや娯楽、商業としてのみ存在しかねない現代社会の中、いま私たちはアーティストは何を問いただし、熟考し、行動してゆくべきか。まさにこのコロナ渦の現代、見えない不安や情報に踊らされている今こそ、この「見えない力」というものに目を向け、耳を傾け、匂い、触り、味わってみる、まさに五感を駆使して、さらに「六感」を鍛えてゆく作業が芸術の持つ「呪術的パワー」を復興させる過程になるのではないかと思えてならないのです。” ゆみ・うみうまれ
今回のイベント内容
ゆみのアートについての簡単な紹介
スペシャルゲストの分野についてのご紹介
「呪術とは？」「アートと呪術の関係は？」などの会話を通してのQ&A
簡単なメソッドとワークショップ
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シリーズ #1:シャイヤ土屋（USA): アニマルコミュニケーター
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スペシャルゲスト・ プロフィール
シャイヤ・土屋
長野県生まれ。ロサンゼルス、ラスベガスを経て現在セドナ在住。
日本・アメリカにて１５年以上の動物病院勤務の経験を持つ動物医療の専門家であると同時に、幼い頃から授かるスピリチュアル能力を活かし、アニマルコミュニケーターの先駆者であるペネロペ・スミス（Penelope Smith）に師事、アニマルコミュニケーションを極める。そのスピリチュアル能力は動物だけに限らず、高次元からのエネルギーを受け取るチャネリングを可能にし、また、各種コーチング・カウンセラースキルや心理・量子力学知識など現世スキルを駆使し、地に足のついたスピリチュアルとして、人々の癒しとより良い人生を歩んで頂くサポート役「ライフクリエーター」として活動の軸をシフトさせている。2010年から聖地セドナの持つ大地の力強さ・インスピレーションに魅せられ2014年移住。その能力から特にネイティブアメリカン組織より聖地巡礼や各セレモニーを司る資格を与えられ、大地に根付くシャーマニズムを身体に摂り入れている。現在ではシャーマニズムをベースにチャネリング、ソマチック、コーチングなど多岐に渡るスピリチュアルを統合したテラ・スピリチュアリズムを提唱し、人々の肉体・精神・魂の癒しと統合・再生のための活動を行うと共にそのスキルを広める人材育成に励んでいる。 シャイヤのHP
濱田秀樹
1965年、大阪府生まれ。シャーマニズム、呪術のスペシャリスト。
ネイティブアメリカン、ラコタ・スー族のメディスン・ウーマンであるキャロル・プラウドフット・エドガー氏にシャーマンとしての資質を見いだされる。1995年渡米、エドガー女史に師事しネイティブアメリカンのマインドや正式な儀式を学ぶ。世界のシャーマニズムの活動をサポートする組織”シャーマニック・サークルズ”で、唯一の日本人評議会メンバーを務める。
イーグルトライブ代表。心理セラピストとしても、ワークショップやトレーニングプログラムを行う。心理学が日常生活に役立つよう、参加者を指導し、様々な場所でシャーマニズムに関するワークショップを行っている。
イーグルトライブのHP
アマラ京子
魂のにおいが好き。 約20年前、突如声が降りてくるようになり、以来インディアンドラム片手に世界各地で唄い続け、日本のドラム&ヴォイスワークの第一人者でもある。 延べ9000人の魂をみてきたチャネラーでもあり、その人の魂のルーツを霊視し伝えることを生業にしている。 その他、舞踏パフォーマンス、女性器画家、女性性解放のワークショップ開催、ネィティヴアメリカンの秘技であるパワーアニマルセレモニーをするなど、アートとシャーマニズムな活動をこなす。2017年、東京から岩手県の早池峰山の麓に移住。「イーハトーヴ 山と水の太陽舎」という屋号で築100年の古民家をリフォームしながら、あらゆるイベントを展開中。
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Jujutsu 呪術 Project
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.
Photo by Mathew Lynn, Vikk Shayen, Jodie Hutchinson | Graphic Design by Takashi Takiguchi
Jujutsu Project is a research Project, exploring Jujutsu
（呪術)
the Japanese notion of shamanism.
On-going research project about Jujutsu呪術: Japanese notion of Shamanism. Since 2021, Yumi has worked 5 specialists and 3 artists, including a first nations artist, scientists, veterinarian/animal communicator, clairvoyant, celebrant and artists from diverse backgrounds in Australia, Japan, Denmark and USA. Now it is in the process of making creative laboratory, which would be creating as a new performance work.
Yumi states;
“This project was inspired by Taro Okamoto's words, "Art is JuJutsu呪術 (magic)!” Having lived and practiced as an artist for more than 30 years, these famous word came to my awareness again because of the desire to recapture that "magical power" as the basis of art. During COVID-19, we frequently face ‘invisible’ fears and anxieties, this leads to the urgent question for artists ‘how should we act?’ Instead, how can we dance with the ‘invisible’ positive power of Jujutsu, through the analogy of our senses, ritual, quantum physics and inexplicable phenomena. I believe that making full use of our five senses and training our six senses, would be a one of the processes of reviving art with the magical power of Jujutsu”.
The interviews and collaboration were taken place via online and live meetings, explored the notion of ‘magic’ ‘spontaneity’ ‘inexplicable’ ‘invisible’ and connections between arts and Jujutsu. Yumi has also participated the online residency between Denmark-US-Australia, in BIRACA, Denmark.
The activities were funded by Creative Victoria, Creators Fund.
Summary Of Research Works
The summary of her research works were as below:
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Aug 2021
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March-May 2022
Working with Adrian Pearce, professor/ scientist(Melbourne) and PhD students in Melbourne university
Working with Shia Tsuchiya, animal communicator/veterinarian(USA)
Working with Hideki Hamada, Jujutsu expertise/psychotherapist, (Japan)
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Dec 2021- March 2022
Working with Caroline Higgins, celebrant(Melbourne)
Working with Kyoko Amara, clairvoyant/singer/ healer (Japan)
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July 2022- Oct 2022
Yumi has worked with the 3 established art practitioners of their expertise, Dalisa Pigram(Broome), Tony Yap (Melbourne), and Moira Finucane (Melbourne).
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Nov/Dec 2022
Yumi has collected 99 creative material and conducted ‘Show and tell “of those 99 materials and create a final ‘ceremony’ as 100th material of dancing, at Sol Gallery, Melbourne.
Yumi states;
“My aim of this research project was to refresh and re-inspire my creative practice through diverse perspectives; science, spirituality, rituals and other no-arts practices as well as to find actual creative methods.Through the research of the Jujutsu (translated as Magic) I was able to recapture these "magical powers" as the basis of art and started to understand some ways of finding a creative portal through arts practice.
It was extremely rich and fulfilling process for me to work with various spiritual expertises, scientists and artists, as well as to interview people in Broome, where Japanese aboriginal cultures meets. Sharing the topics about ‘magic’ and ‘invisible’ power were incredible inspiring and nurturing process for me both personally and professionally. My objective for this research was to take me into the new and unknown territories in order for me to extend my creativity in arts, spirituality and well-being all all kinds of levels. It was very satisfying process for me to fulfil my objectives and share the processes with participated artists and practitioners, exchanging our expertise and insights, especially after having long restrictions through COVID.
I was also able to share my conversations and processes with arts and non-arts communities. I’ve interviewed over 20 people from non-arts background, and conducted 3 public Zoom sessions with 3 Japanese experts, which attracted over 80 people from Japan, Australia and other countries.
As I planned, I’ve held a public show and tell of showing the 99 creative materials, and one live performance to complete the process of the 100 Supernatural Tales. It was at Sol Gallery in 16 Dec 2022.
The creative materials of spontaneous, inexplicable, invisible and art, involving stories, visual, movements were;
• 12 self edited video works( including 5 dance video)
• 5 interview excerpts videos
• 20 stories
• 10 sounds
• 10 artefacts
• 42 visual photos and poetry
• 1 final dance
The Past Session DATES/times with Specialists
2022
★SUN 30th Jan @11:00am-1:00 pm (GMT+11)
Series #3 Kyoko Amara : Chaneller/Singer
★June - Completed (without Open Zoom sessions)
Series #4 Caroline Higgins: Celebrant
★Oct- Completed (Internal Zoom sessions only)
Series #5 Melbourne university science students
2021
★Sun 5th Dec @10:30am-12pm (GMT+11)
Series #1:Shia Tsuchiya: Animal communicator
★SUN 19th Dec @10:30am-12pm (GMT+11)
Seires #2 HIDEKI Hamada: Jujutsu Specialist
BOOKING
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Japanese Specialists’ Profiles
Shia Tsuchiya- Animal Communicator (SEDONA, USA)
Born in Nagano, Japan, Shia currently lives in Sedna, after working in Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Shia has been a veterinary specialist with more than 15 years of experience working in veterinary clinics in Japan and the United States. Taking advantage of the spiritual abilities since her childhood, Shia started to follow her teacher, Penelope Smith, a pioneer of animal communicators. Shia works also as a healer to support people not limited to animals, and lead them a better life through receiving energy from higher dimensions. Since 2010, she has been fascinated by the sacred place Sedna then moved there in 2014.In recent years, she has been qualified to manage pilgrimages to sacred places and ceremonies, especially from Native American organisations, and has also conducted hiking and ceremonies for healing and regeneration of people's bodies, spirits and souls.Currently Shia advocates ‘terra spiritualism’ that integrates a wide range of spirituals such as channeling, somatic, and coaching based on shamanism. She also educate and foster people for their healing, integration, and regeneration of their bodies, minds, and spirits, as well as their skills.
Hideki Hamada - Jujutsu Specialist (OSAKA, JAPAN)
Born in Osaka in 1965, Hideki is a expertise of Jujutsu and shamanism in general. His shamanic qualities are found by Carol Proudfoot Edgar, a Native American Lakota Sioux medicine woman. In 1995, he went to the United States to study Native American mindset and formal ceremonies under Ms. Edgar. He is the only member of the Japanese Council of "Shamanic Circles", an organisation that supports the activities of shamanism around the world. He is also a psychotherapist and representative of Eagle Tribe to conduct workshops and training programs to be psychotherapist. Hideki works to make psychology useful in daily life, for participants to develop their effective interpersonal assistance skills.
Kyoko Amara
Kyoko likes the smell of the soul. Over 20 years, she has been working as a singer with shamanistic drumming and she describes ‘hearing as the voice suddenly began to come down’. Kyoko is also a ‘channeller’/clairvoyant in Japan, holding sessions with over 9000 people. Her main work is to spiritually convey the roots of people’s souls. She has been also engaged in art and shamanistic activities through Butoh performance, painting female genitals, holding workshops for feminine liberation and holding a power animal ceremony, which is a secret practice of the Native American people. In 2017, Kyoko moved from Tokyo to the foot of Mt. Hayachine in Iwate Prefecture, organising all kinds of events while renovating an 100-year-old folk house under the name of "Ihatov Mountain and Water Sunshade”.
Kyoko is renewing her website so her FB page is here.
This project is supported by Creative Victoria, Creators Fund 2021.
Buried TeaBowl a new solo work in progress 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.
photo by Vikk Shayen
Yumi's new solo work Buried TeaBowl, a work in progress, Aug 2021
Buried Tea Bowl is a new solo interdisciplinary work in development by Yumi Umiumare, bringing together dance, text, song and poetry with tea ceremony to create an intimate and epic work with both live and digital iterations.
Buried Tea Bowl channels the character of Okuni, a Japanese female shaman who initiated Kabuki during the Edo period (1600s). Kabuki comes from the word ‘Kabuku’, meaning bent or out of the ordinary, and was regarded as a subversive non-art form, passionately expressing ugliness and beauty. Later women were banned from performing Kabuki – the male performers who took over the art form can be seen as the first Japanese Drag Queens. Even though she was one of the most powerful female figures in theatre history, not many people know about Okuni, even in Japan.
Combining Yumi’s practice of Japanese tea ceremony, which flourished at the same period as Okuni was alive, she is choosing the ‘tea bowl’ as a creative metaphor of precious sacred female power which was buried under history.
Creative Team for Creative Development 2021
Created and Performed by Yumi Umiumare
In collaboration with
Cinematographer/ Editor : Takeshi Kondo
Composer/ Sound Designer : Dan West
Dramaturg : Maude Davey
Provocateur : Moira Finucane
Vocal Artist : Emma Bathgate
Shamisen Artist : Noriko Tadano
Photographer : Vikk Shayen
Producer : Kath Papas productions
This project has been assisted by
The Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body
City of Darebin, Cultural Infrastructure Grants
Abbotsford Convent Foundation, Pivot 2021
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Normal 2 Feb- 23 May 2021
BUTOH OUT! 2021NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre art-form of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal?
BUTOH OUT! 2021
NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre artform of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal? Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh has always been associated with the marginalised, embracing the abnormal, odd, quirky & the deviant. One of the first Butoh performances so shocked its Japanese audiences that it was forced to go underground, yet now it is accepted as an innovative art form. Conversely, what we used to think as ‘normal’ is no longer so. Instead, the term, 'new normal' exists, which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. We hang onto a semblance of normalcy like a security blanket - but why?
ButohOUT! 2021 offers 5 public workshops including one for children and seniors, a performance-making laboratory, a forum and 2 performance presentations, one at Dancehouse and Abbotsford Convent.
WORKSHOPS
@ Abbotsford Convent
★2(Tue)-23(Tue) Feb 2021
Weekly workshop
Is Butoh Abnormal?
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March 2021
Weekend workshop
What is normal in Butoh?
★27(Sat) March 2021
Family and Kids workshop
Peek-A- Butoh
(FREE)
★27(Sat) March 2021
Senior workshop
You Don't Think You Can Dance?
| For 50+, 60+, 70+ or beyond
(FREE)
★ 24(Sat) 25 (Sun) April 2021
Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
What is our New Ab/Normal?
PERFORMANCE
★25-28 March 2021
Colour-Fool (4 shows only!!)
@Dancehouse
Detail
★20-23 May 2021
Odd Hours (4 shows only!!)
@Abbortsford Convent
Detail
About
ButohOUT! Festival is An Artists-led, inclusive festival that breaks expectations and boundaries. It invites diverse arts and non-arts communities to engage with the profound internationally-acclaimed art form of Butoh. ButohOUT! also engages with international Butoh dancers to interact with local Australian practitioners from new initiates to established performers in an open exchange of expertise and performance.
Creative team of ButohOUT! 2021
Director & Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Producer: Takashi Takiguchi
Emma Bathgate(Voice)
Jacqui Stockdale(Visual arts)
Dan West and Ai Yamamoto (Sound)
Rachel Lee(Lighting)
Monika Benova(Graphic Design)
Performers:
Kiki Ando, Emma Bathgate, David Blom, Jessie Ngaio, Pauline Sherlock, Tomoko Yamasaki, Takashi Takiguchi, Yumi Umiumare and ButohOUT! Ensemble
Weekend intensive workshops for professionals, non professionals, kid& family and senior in March/April 2021@ Abbotsford Convent
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March : Weekend workshop
★27(Sat) March : Family, Kids and Senior workshop
★24(Sat)-25(Sun) April : Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
Collage elements by Jacqui Stockdale, Graphic design by Monica Benova, Photo by Mathew Lynn.
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Nomral
Workshop Series are happening in Melbourne at Abbotsford Convent in March and April 2021.
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March 2021
Weekend workshop : What is Normal in Butoh?
Detail
★27(Sat) March 2021
Family and Kids workshop: Peek-A- Butoh (FREE)
Detail
★27(Sat) March 2021
Workshop for For 50+, 60+, 70+ or beyond : You Don't Think You Can Dance? (FREE)
Detail
★24(Sat)-25(Sun) April 2021
Weekend workshop : What is our New Ab/Normal?
Detail
Wanna Be a Rabbit? with Weave Movement Theatre
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:Will I ever be perfect? Am I invisible? How do I get out of here? My sheets need a wash. It’s dark. Is that a rabbit? The show is going to be premiered 2020.
The Performance season in June 2020 were both Cancelled Due to the COVID-19.
new dates is going to be announced soon.
Will I ever be perfect? Am I invisible? How do I get out of here? My sheets need a wash. It’s dark. Is that a rabbit?
Wannabe a Rabbit? is directed and Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre. A fusion of Butoh and Physical Theatre, the work moved between the surreal and absurd; humorously reversing the perceptions of difference.
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:
Surfacing in reaction to the atrocities caused post World War II and initially referred to as the ‘Dance of Darkness’, Butoh converges themes of naturism and humanism. ButohOUT! intends to activate the spirit of Butoh through the local and national, contemporary dance community.
“Their strength lies in the performers’ ability to make the banal magical” – The Age
(review for Weave’s previous work)
Credit
Director: Yumi Umiumare
in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre
Producer: Janice Florence
Sound designer: Dan West
Costume designer: Matilda Woodroofe
Lighting designer: Jennifer Hector
Installation artist: Pimpisa Tinpalit
from ButohOUT!2018 photo by Mifumi Obata
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! In Development
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! will be 5th DasSHOKU Butoh cabaret series since 2012. Smashing together Yumi’s recent practice in Japanese tea ceremony (PopUp Tearoom Series) with her signature, iconic Butoh Cabaret series, DasSHOKU Tea ParTEA! combines elements of Butoh, Cabaret, and spoken word, woven from Japanese tea ceremony into English tea party, from Brazilian samba into Okuni-Kabuki dance during the Edo period in early 1600.
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! will be Yumi’s new full-length stage work. Smashing together Yumi’s recent practice in Japanese tea ceremony (PopUp Tearoom Series) with her signature, iconic Butoh Cabaret series, DasSHOKU Tea ParTEA! combines elements of Butoh, Cabaret, and spoken word, woven from Japanese tea ceremony into English tea party, from Brazilian samba into Okuni-Kabuki dance during the Edo period in early1600. The work channels the original world of Kabuki, which originally meant ‘bent’ or ‘out of the ordinary’, as well as irregular and asymmetrical aesthetics of classic Japanese tea ceremony.
The first stage of creative development was completed in June 2019, and the second stage development was in Jan/Feb 2020.
The work will take place in a richly visual world created by The Sisters Hayes (set & costume) and Jenny Hector (lighting), with sound design and original score by Dan West. Yumi’s magnetic physical performance is accompanied by an outstanding team of performers- Willow J Conway (Ms Burlesque 2016/17), Gregory Lorenzutti (Brazilian samba & contemporary) and Harrison Hall (cutting edge contemporary dancer). Dramaturgy is by leading theatre maker and performer, Maude Davey.
DasSHOKU Tea ParTEA! will be realised as a 75min tea ceremony/party, including actual Japanese tea ceremony with audience interaction. Short segment of varying rituals with dance, text, and song will unfold through the visually morphing set designs.
CREATIVE TEAM
Creator/director/performer: Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator/performers:
Willow J Conway, Gregory Lorenzutti, Harrison Hall,
Dramaturg: Maude Davey
Set and Costume Design: The Sisters Hayes
Lighting Design : Jenny Hector
Sound design : Dan West
Producer: Kath Papas Productions
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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)
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
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!
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
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