"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  |  

Shashaten brings to the listener and observer traditional and contemporary music for the Koto combined with Japanese dancer movements and contemporary Butoh dance. The duo combines music and movement by using narrative and non-narrative stories or themes which are essentially Japanese. This process is portrayed to the audience with the deepest sensitivity and concentration. Sets and props are simple and evocative of the theme. Satsuki Odamura and Yumi Umiumare aspire to create an understanding of Japanese life and culture through their art form. They also wish to show how their work has been influenced and developed through the artistic and personal experiences while living in Australia.

Satsuki Odamura Virtuoso on Koto
Yumi Umiumare Dancer in the style of Butoh

 

Time	Place
2000	April performed Asion Dance & Music Festival at Sydney Opera House
1999	Performed at Songs of the winds Festival Blue Mountains
1999	Performed at Asian music and dance festival Sydney
1999	Performed at the opening of Japanese Festival Glen Eira Arts Complex
1998	Premiere in Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne

 

".... the highlight of the day came with the extraordinary collaboration between Satsuki Odamura and Butoh dancer Yumi Umiumare."

".... Umiumare builds her dance theatre on Japanese Butoh technique. Stylised movement - usually small mysterious, contorted gestures - is the iceberg tip of much lasrger interior expression. What you see is only a tiny fraction of what you are invited to image."

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD APR 2000