"A Mystical collision of Butoh and Theatre...En Trance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by the irresistible logic of dreams".

Type of Work:   Dance  |  

Choreographed and Performed by Yumi Umiumare

Yumi Umiumare was inspired by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s emergency cardboard tubing house and the notion that a house, usually an object of permanence, could be specifically designed to provide momentary comfort.
Using everyday objects as metaphors of 'loss', while also collecting residential memories defined by a psycho-emotional space, Yumi takes on the notion of 'oriental' in the context of moving and living in "foreign" spaces. She explores the cracks and spaces between disorientation / destruction & attraction / familiarities.

Sound Design: Cat Hope
Lighting Design: Richard Vabre
Produced by Hirano Production
This work premiered at Performance Space as a part of Rakini Devi's project, Women in Transit in 2004.

 

Time	Place
2007 September	Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre, OzAsia Festival
2006 October	Spring Dance program at Dancehouse
2004 July	as a premier season of Woman in Transit

 

 

“....Yumi Umiumare does incredibly intense solo in which her Japanese heritage and butoh dance background provide an irresistible focus for small actions on personal or domestic themes that hint at larger concerns......The transformations is riveting, powered by the knowledge that visual is built on layers of psychological and emotional considerations."
Sydney Morning Herald 2004