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Improvisation Land 21.5
Yumi Umiumare
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Dance - Daniel Yeung
Music - Edmund Leung
As part of th I-Dance(Hong Kong) 2009 festival in Hong Kong, Yumi is performed a
solo work Sakasama: the reverse world.
The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ethe near shoref (the world of the living), and the other is 'ethe far shore' (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. 'The far shore' is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down. Umiumare explores the juxtaposition of her presence in Australia, experimenting with the neutrality of emotion and color, and to manipulate rhythms.
5th Dec 2009 : Programme 5 03.12 (Thu)
Black Box Theatre, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Honk Kong
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Burning Daylight with Marrugeku
‘Mobile state' touring
Creative Team:
Director: Rachael Swain, Choreographers: Serge Aime Coulibaly & Dalisa Pigram, Designer: Joey Ruigrok van der Werven, Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton, Dramaturg: David Pledger, Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis, Lighting Designer: Geoff Cobham, Musical Director: Matthew Fargher, songs by : Amanda Brown
Performers:
Trevor Jamieson, Dalisa Pigram, Kathy Cogill, Owen Maher, Sermsah Bin Saad, Antonia Djiagween & Yumi Umiumare
Musicians:
Dazastah, Lorrae Coffin & Justin Gray
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EN TRANCE |
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From her many performances of The Burlesque Hour around the globe, to Malthouse Theatre’s very own presentation of 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-worldy 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 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. |
- CREATED AND PERFORMED BY YUMI UMIUMARE
- DRAMATURGE MOIRA FINUCANE
- MEDIA ARTIST BAMBANG NURCAHYADI
- INSTALLATION ARTIST NAOMI OTA
- SOUND DESIGNER IAN KITNEY
- COSTUME DESIGNER DAVID ANDERSON
- LIGHTING DESIGNER KERRY IRELAND
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World Premier
Presented by Malthouse Theatre
August 28 – September 13
OzAsia Festival, Adelaide
13 & 14 October
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The Burlesque Hour LEGENDS! Presented by Finucane and Smith
June 25th – August 2nd
Melbourne
The legendary, indefinable, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young salon that has critics raving and festival audiences around the world in raptures returns with LEGENDS. From every facet of the eye-popping, show-stopping spectrum, the Burlesque Hour brings you an international line up of LEGENDS to set your thrillometer to ten.
Every fortnight a new LEGEND. Don’t you miss out.
From London cult cabaret legend Ursula Martinez, star of the Olivier Award winning La Clique, purveyor of the infamous hanky strip; to three time Helpmann and Green Room winner, Australia’s darkest singing angel, Paul Capsis, “in possession of a voice that sounds like an act of God” (Scotsman); to Miss Toni Lamond The Legend of Australian Variety, Order of Australia, Keys to the City of Melbourne, and declared by the Sydney Morning Herald as “The Ultimate Showgirl”, The Burlesque Hour mixes it up with the very very best stars of the stratosphere.
Add to that internationally acclaimed Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane, Japanese electric shock butoh dancer Yumi Umiumare; the elegant iconoclast Maude Davey; smouldering circus siren Azaria Universe; the growing kitten-exploitation legend of wild dancers Kitten K.O and you have BURLESQUE HOUR … LEGENDS |
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Hiroshima & Nagasaki Memorial Concert '09
Saturday 8th August
Performers: Jordie Lane Singer/Songwriter, Yumi Umiumare Butoh Dance, Djiva Indigenous Female Duo, Bruce Watson Singer/Songwriter, Ayako Sato & Fuefukuro Japanese Drums
Speakers: Scott Ludlam Australian Greens Senator, Steven Starr Senior Scientist, Physicians for Social Responsibility
Organised by Japanese for Peace
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Dis-Oriental
Napolidanza Association
is proud to invite you to
“La danza del mondo in centotrenta opere video”
May, 29th & 30th 2009 at PAN|Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli
16th International Festival of Videodance
Il coreografo elettronico 2009
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One hundred and thirty works from thirty countries all over the world are the numbers of 16th edition of “Il Coreografo Elettronico”, international Festival of Videodance, created and directed by Marilena Riccio for Napolidanza, which will take place at Pan|Palazzo delle Arti in Naples, Italy in May, 29th and 30th.
This neapolitan festival, unique in its kind in Italy, has become popular all over last twenty years as one of most vivid reference for promotion, spreading and, above all, catalogation and recording of languages of contemporary dance in electronic format.
Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, China, Hong Kong, India, Canada, U.S.A., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Israel, Belgium, France, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Turkey, U.K., and, naturally, Italy, are the submitted countries of this edition of festival. A new, very referent, show-window of last landings of contemporary dance in the world, which return us, through high-quality video-operas, works that match most advanced languages of technological research and digital, with a profitable mix of designers, videomakers, dancers and choreographers.
 Starting at 5:00 p.m. and ending at 10:00 p.m. in days of Friday 29th and Saturday 30th of May, inside different spaces of PAN museum, 130 submitted video-works will be projected, cycle-continuously, together with meetings with authors and directors present in person to the Festival.
The jury of experts, composed by Ada d’Adamo (president), Annalea Antolini, Gianfranco di Vito and Mariano Sacco, will award winners of ‘09 edition on May, 30th, assigning, during the last evening, the Prize Napolidanza as best work and Prize Young Authors as best independent production work.
Il coreografo elettronico 2009 is realized by Napolidanza with collaboration with Pan |Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Punta Corsara, Fondazione Campania dei Festival.
Free admittance to videoprojections and meetings with authors until seats run out.
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The Burlesque Hour Presented by Gold Coast Arts Centre
June 14th – 16th
The legendary, indefinable, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young salon that has critics raving and festival audiences around the world in raptures, comes to the Gold Coast. Part circus and sideshow,
showgirl and show-stopper, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music hall, gothic spectacle and mayhem, in a crash curve carnival of wild acts and legendary favourites. Starring Moira Finucane, Yumi Umiumare, Maude Davey, Azaria Universe and luminous guest star Paul Cordeiro |
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DANCE : April Sakasama Reverse World : Yumi Umiumare
Edge : Tony Yap
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Salon de Dance & The Feast of Argentina a double bill of wild delight!
11-29 MARCH
LA MAMA THEATRE
Acclaimed the house of Finucane & Smith (The Burlesque Hour, Gotharama) take over La Mama for three weeks in March, plunging audiences into two extraordinary Salons. Nightly into the dark and decrepit dance hall of The Salon de Dance – a mesmerising physical exhibition dipped in the moody lights of the noir and the gothic; and on weekends. The Salon & The Feast burst at the seams with the unique and the intriguing.
“The most shocking dance I’ve ever seen in my life…how incredible is this banquet that the two create with their strange movement. I found myself laughing without any sound.”
NAGIGNON DANCE, OSAKA
“In tales of romantic adventure that grow ever more bizarre and bloodcurdling in their imagery, Finucane is utterly enthralling … a sensory onslaught like no other”
THE AUSTRALIAN
Salon de Dance
Whirl into Finucane & Smith’s decrepit dark dance hall: a wild mix of gothic dance, contemporary turns, tea dancing for hire and sultry chanteusery. Featuring the goddess of dark butoh dementia Yumi Umiumare and Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane as two demented sisters settling down to the business of supper in the dance that had Japanese critics declaring “overwhelming…it was too powerful for me but I want to see them again!” (Dancecube Magazine, Osaka); the surreal chanteuse Maude Davey; luminous Sydney dancer Paul Cordeiro; the dynamite of acclaimed dancers Harriet Ritchie & Holly Durant; the mesmerising Miss Caroline Lee; and a host of guest danseurs and danseuses. The Salon de Dance is a dark den of truly extraordinary physical performance. Table seating, lightbulb swinging, liquor sipping, dance lessons during interval… you’d be a fool not to dress up.
the Feast of Argentina
The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina brings together Moira Finucane’s outrageous adventuress and diva Argentina Gina Catalina – acclaimed throughout the world for her feats of daring, sensuality and fervour – with fairground icon and bon vivant KT Prescott to create a whirlwind of tales and tastes in the intimate surrounds of La Mama. Argentina Gina Catalina, perhaps Finucane’s most extraordinary and acclaimed story teller, takes the audience on a rampage through the four seasons, each accompanied by a delicious morsel plucked right from the eyes of her tales. From sizzling Opera Houses, to the alleys of Barcelona; from her childhood in the Arctic Circle worshipped by wolves, killer whales and bandidoes, to the mayhem of autumnal oceans surrounded by pirates and piranhas… The Feast is a wild and delicious manifestation of Argentina’s most death defying tales.
ARTISTES!!!
Created & Directed by Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith
Set Design Esther Hayes
Lighting Design Kerry Ireland
Argentina’s stories by Moira Finucane
Argentina’s costumes by David Anderson
Feast Gourmand KT Prescott
Performers & Creators Moira Finucane, Yumi Umiumare, Holly Durant, Harriet Ritchie, Paul Cordeiro, Maude Davey, and guest artistes including Caroline Lee, Jodie Farrugia and Jess Love
Production Manager, Stage Manager & Salon Hostess Cath Carmody
La Mama Theatre is on Wurundjeri Land and Finucane & Smith and all the artists of the Feast & Salon acknowledge its traditional custodians
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Upstart Alley VIII
 The Upstart Alley troupe brings you another raucous party, teeming with dazzling displays of pervy performance and gender piracy. Upstart Alley VIII boasts a grimy vaudeville style show followed by rocking live music, continued debauchery and seedy side show entertainment!
Featuring Hostess Kelli Jean Drinkwater (Syd), Yumi Umiumare, Wes Snelling, Kaboobie (Adel), The Bad Father (Adel) and music from psychobilly rockers The Vaudevillains, DJ Linx and more!
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Burlesque Hour… She’s Back!
Returned by popular demand!!
Sydney Opera House Studio
January 2009
Hot on the heels of a world tour, the smash hit of festivals everywhere returns to Sydney. The Burlesque Hour… She’s Back! the legendary, indefinable, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young salon that has set the critics raving and 30,000 audience members around the world in raptures, returns to after it’s sell-out season in the The Famous Spiegeltent – Gourgeous! program.
The Italians gave it 10 standing ovations. Edinburgh gave it 5 stars. It stormed Slovenia’s major cultural centre, and sold three times the tickets available in Rijeka. Tokyo hipsters crowded the Yokohama waterfront while New Zealanders cheered and gasped.
Starring internationally acclaimed Queen of Cabaret Bizarre, Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese butoh dancer and shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare; circus and burlesque star Azaria Universe, elegant iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous and fabled Strawberry Act, and luminous guest artistes.
Part circus and sideshow, showgirl and show-stopper, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music hall, gothic spectacle and mayhem.
In 2008, Sydney snatched up every last ticket. Now they are back with a revved up mix of wild new acts, and legendary favourites. Don’t miss out…your table awaits.
THE STUDIO, SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
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The Burlesque Hour
presented by
The Street
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