Return to Sender is a collection of eight short dance works exploring the influence of international creative relationships on the practice of Australian dance artists.

For Return to Sender, curators Paul Gazzola and Jeff Khan have invited eight Australian dance-makers to devise new works that recreate the choreography, score, or essence of an international peer’s work. The resulting works range from reconstructed solos, to collaborative texts, to performed instructions. Together, they provide an insight into the creative collaborations that influence Australian artists’ work, but which take place overseas and are often out-of-sight to their audiences due to distance, geography and expense.

Artists: Alison Currie, Nadia Cusimano, Matthew Day, Atlanta Eke, Jane McKernan, Latai Taumoepeau, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare.

 

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The maids love to play
The maids love Mistress
The maids love to play at being Mistress
The maids hate Mistress
Mistress, it’s time for tea

Murder is something… just too funny for words…. We shall sing!

We shall bury her beneath the flowers of our flower-beds – slaughter her – and come the evening – water her.

“Unforgettable… a mercilessly entertaining, cross cultural production… Not to be missed”
Cameron Woodhead, The Age

August 10 – August 28
Written by Jean Genet
Translated by Martin Crimp
Directed by Suzanne Chaundy
Design: Lisa Höbartner
Frocks by Rose Chong & Farida Sadri
Performed by Matt Crosby, Ben Rogan
& Yumi Umiumare
Lighting Designer – Kris Chainey
Feature Image credit: Jack Crosby

 

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In The Arts Island 2011 (Festival Seni Pertunjukan Keliling) The essence of this event highlights the emergence of new forms of expressions. We encourage the integration of the surrounding environment into the creative process and presence of the observer. We envision an experience that crosses the boundaries between observer and performers and both contributing and becoming the constructive part of the festival.

• BALI, July 12, 2011
• BLITAR, July 15, 2011
• KEDIRI, July 17, 2011
• MALANG, July 19, 2011
• BATU, July 20, 2011

Participants Artist :

1. RONNARANG KHAMPHA (Thailand)
2. YUMI UMIUMARE (Australia)
3. TONY YAP (Australian)
4. AGUNG GUNAWAN (Indonesia)
5. I NYOMAN SURA (Indonesia)
6. KUAN NAM (Malaysia)
7. IWAN DARMAWAN (Indonesia)
8. IDA LAWRENCE (Australia)
9. MEMET CHAIRUL SLAMET (Indonesia)
10. REVATI ILANKO (Australia)
11. GITA PURNAMA KINANTHI (Indonesia)
12. BAGUS BUDI INDARTO (Indonesia)
13. AGUS RIYANTO (Indonesia)

 

The Javanese Dancework Festival Director : Agung Gunawan

From her many performances of The Burlesque Hour around the globe to her infamous Butoh Cabaret DasShoku Hora!!, Yumi Umiumare's electrifying performance style is in demand the world over. In this bold new work, Umiumare is set to detonate her extraordinary vision from the international to the other-wordly as she thrusts us into the twisted corridors of the un-living. At times brutally visceral, the performance is counterbalanced with the purity of digital painting produced live with her collaborating artists, Bambang Nurcahyadi and Naomi Ota. |

EnTrance further extends Umiumare's diverse dance vocabulary, plummeting into the cracks where the spirit and the body are propelled into another existence. Umiumare takes us from unsettling moments of physical extremity to magical images of reflective serenity.

| STREET 1 - RESERVED | DURATION - 75 MINUTES WITHOUT INTERVAL |

'...an impassioned and beautiful piece, constantly rich and surprising in its emotional range, and finally very moving.' The Australian. | 'A mystical collision of Butoh and Theatre...EnTrance is a wonderful union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by the irrestable logic of dreams.' The Age |

Prices: Standard: $25.00 / Concession: $21.00 / Student: $15.00

EnTrance extends even further Umiumare's diverse dance vocabulary, plummeting into the cracks where the spirit and the body are propelled into another existence. Umiumare takes us from unsettling moments of physical extremity to magical images of reflective serenity

「バーレスク・アワー」を始め数々の舞台作品で世界中を駆け巡り、活躍を続けているメルボルン在住のパフォーミング・アーティスト、ゆみ・うみうまれによ るソロ作品「ＥｎＴｒａｎｃｅ」。２００９年８月のメルボルン初演ではチケット完売の大盛況を博す。メルボルン在住ヴィジュアル・アーティストの太田奈緒 美によるインスタレーションと、シドニー在住インドネシア人メディア・アーティストBAMBANG NURCAHYADIによるデジタル映像を背景に、うみうまれの舞踏、語り、コメディ、またその独特で不思議な踊りが織り込まれてゆく。