"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
Performance 2006 - Up
Type of Work:   Performance  |  
2007   Performance Credits
Dec  

THE BURLESQUE HOUR SIZZLES @ THE FAMOUS SPIEGELTENT

The Burlesque Hour. SIZZLES! Legendary iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous and fabled strawberry act; Moscow circus trained circus and burlesque star Azaria Universe; Japanese butoh dancer and shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare and guest artiste Clare Bartholomew's Pierre - Magician and Love Machine!
Nov/Dec  

 

Butoh residential workshop

The aim of this workshop was to develop body awareness and expression through a response to landscape. This 140 acre site nearby to Mt Arapiles allowed participants to move between bush land, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form.

Over the weekend, Yumi introduced various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being. Qi Gong /Tai Chi Teacher Andy Green was invited to introduce us to a way of controlling and focusing the inner energy. The se body works acted as powerful counterpoints as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.
November 
 

BB07 - 7 MINUTES - 7 DEADLY SINS

BB0# series has been directed, curated and facilitated by Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare since 2001 to provide the local Butoh communities an opportunity to investigate, explore and stretch the limits of what we understand as the intrinsic meaning of Butoh. The long-term vision for this series is a grander scale festival encompassing all idiosyncratic interpretation of Butoh in performance from local & International artists.

ARTISTS: Jarrod Benson, Tom Davis, Josephine Fisher, Janette Hoe, Geraldine Morey, Daniel Mounsey, Gabrielle New, Alana Picone, Sharna Vrhowec, Megumi Sasaki, Yumi Umiumare, Tony Yap

 
October 
 

The BURLESQUE HOUR

- tours Europe

Azaria Universe, Moira Finucane and Yumi Umiumare in performance with the legendary gender in performance icon Maude Davey, and luminous guest artistes cult British cabaret star Ursula Martinez and Bartholomew's epic-tragic clown Pierre: Magician and Love Machine.

Opening The City of Women Festival in Ljubljiana, Slovenia; The Burlesque Hour will go on to seasons with renowned cultural venues Drugo More in Rijeka, Croatia, and Teatro Miela in Trieste.
Sept/Oct  

 

Undiscovered Country
National Cultural Diversity Cluster

Undiscovered Country emanates from a project involving some of Australia's best-known contemporary Australian artists

The work of the originating artists Hossein Valamanesh, William Yang, Hung Le, Yumi Umiumare and Anna Yen, come together at the Adelaide Festival Centre in Undiscovered Country
September  

Dis-Oriental

Space Theatre

Adelaide Festival Centre
August  

 

BURNING DAYLIGHT
with
MARRUGEKU
Zurich theatre festival
May-June 
 
DasSHOKU Hora!!
The Studio @ Sydney Opera House
CREATED AND PERFORMED
by
YUMI UMIUMARE IN COLLABORATION WITH MATT CROSBY & BEN ROGAN
March  
 

SWAMP OF MEMORIES
Pre show Butoh performance by Yumi Umiumare
Following the conclusion of a creative development with Yumi Umiumare, Tokyo-based Butoh Diva, Mutsuko Tanaka, will present a studio performance of a solo work based on her first experience in Australia.

Meat Market
 
 

180 SECONDS IN HEAVEN OR HELL
art - meets - blood - meets - sport
Part title fight, part sideshow alley, 180 Seconds in Heaven or Hell brings artists and art forms together through one massive live-art experience; like a speeding burlesque show, art forms collide in turbulent three minute episodes, over three stages and three hours.

Arts House
 

Impro-Lab: TRANSPARENCIES
De Quincey Co & Machine for Making Sense
photo: Mayu Kanamori
Video effect: Samuel James

fortyfivedownstairs
February  

Yumi Umiumare, Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith in JAPAN!!
Asian Contemporary Dance Festival, Osaka
Café Live Series, Yokohama