"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  |  

How could you even begin to understand? (Winner of Victorian Green Room Award, 2001)is highly original and riveting work began in Australia in 1996 and is an on-going "devotional work" between Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare. Over 14years they have performed in various venues and settings - galleries, churches, landscape environments and mainstream performance spaces, internationally and nationally and it is constantly evolving with every version. One of the highlights of this work was at the Beyond Butoh Program at the JADE Festival, in Tokyo, (2002). The performance was greeted with great enthusiasm from critics and audience alike.

‘It was the most remarkable moment in the new evolution of Butoh history.’
CUT IN MAGAZINE, TOKYO 2002)

Choreography and Dancer by Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap

 

Time	Place
2010	Performance in Arts Island Festival Indonesia-Bandung, Bali, Batu, Yogyakarta (version 36,37,38,39)
2009	Performance as a part of roof top project (version 35)
2008	Performance in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (version 34)
2005	BB05 Dancehouse(version 30-33)
2003	Actors Studio, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia(Version 26-29)
2002	Mass Gallery, Melbourne: 5 –Collaboration with Hisako Tsuzuku and Anthony Pelchen. (Version14-18) Judith Wright Centre: Australia Dance Week, Brisbane (Version19, 20) JADE2002 – Beyond Butoh at Park Tower Hall, Tokyo (Version 21) Performance Space, Kultour, in Carnivale(Version22-25)
2001	Dancehouse, Melbourne: Mixed Metaphor (Version 9-12) Melbourne City Square/ Footscray Mall: Melbourne International Festival-Rice Paddie. (Version13)
2001	North Melbourne Town Hall, with Calligrapher Hisako Tsuzuku (Version8)
2000	Horsham Regional art Gallery: Horsham Arts Festival (Version7)
1999	ANTISTATIC99, Sydney (Version 2)Horsham Regional Art Gallery (Version3)Lower Melbourne Town Hall: launch of Construction (Version 4) St Stephen’s Anglican Church, Richmond, Melb:  Melbourne Fringe     Festival, with installation by Anthony Pelchen (Version5, 6)
1996	Experimenta Arts Festival, Melbourne: Installation performance with Lim Tzay Chuan (Version1)

 

"....Moving in real time, her performance developed into explosive laughter, a violent encounter with Yap and a stony blockout of emotions before they returned to the chair with places reversed, leaving the audience with a range of interpretations to consider".

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, APRIL 1999



“It was the most remarkable moment in the new evolution of Butoh history."

CUT IN MAGAZINE, TOKYO