"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  |  

Directed by  Yumi Umiumare & Anne Norman
Dancers Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap, Lynne Santos
Musicians Michael Hewes - Sound processing, electric Bass
Peter Neville - Percussion
Anne Norman - Shakuhachi
Satsuki Odamura - Koto 
Nadoya Music and Dance Company
 
1994 Hawthorn Town Hall, Melbourne, Australia
1996 Theatreworks, Melbourne, Australia
1998 CUB Malthouse September 1998, Melbourne, Australia
Performance space, Sydney, Australia

Photography Brad Hick, Six 6 Photography (1998 performance)

Photography Lyn Pool (1996 performance)

"Kagome is an exceptional example of cross cultural fertilisation which others would do well to study"
IN PRESS MAGAZINE, MAY 1996

"Lynne Santos and Yumi Umiumare; successfully welding dance and music styles"
THE AGE MAY 1996

"The mood the dancers convey through both physical and emotional expression is wonderfully married to the musical component of the company employing both traditional Japanese and western instruments..."
BEAT MAGAZINE, MAY 1996

"Lynne Santos, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare weave their magic in Kagome"
HERALD SUN, SEP 1998

"Yumi Umiumare is co-director...as well as the most forceful of the three dancers in her pivotal role as a woman caged in worldly reality"
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, AUG 1998