"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".
The Age
Type of Work:   Dance  |  

A solo dance work influenced from the personal experience from Hanshin Earthquake in 1996.The work was devised as prayer for the event.

Directed and Performed by Yumi Umiumare

Stage & Set design  Anthony Pelchen

 

PERFORMANCE HISTORY
Time Place
2003 February Traces Post Butoh Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000 August Dancehouse, Melbourne, Australia
2000 5thyear memorial of Hanshin Earthquake, Town Hall, Vega Hall, and Women's Centre in Takarazuka City

 

REVIEWS

"Yumi Umiumare was not animal on the stage, on the contrary, she seemed like a deformed human being. As with Kitt Johnson, they both posses the ability to make their extreme bodies disappear and transform into Butoh power. Or to make the earth disappear. .."

Anne Middlelboe Christensen - Information, Copenhagen