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 BUTOH - TRANSFORMATION & PROVOCATION Sunday 21 November : Kuala Lumpur
Workshop with YUMI UMIUMARE
Acclaimed Melbourne-based performer Yumi Umiumare will introduce the discipline of Butoh dance – its philosophy and physical etudes – within the framework of contemporary Japanese/Western physical theatre-making. Yumi’s hybrid existence that spans both Japanese and Australian culture has inspired her in the creation and development of a unique genre: Butoh Cabaret in which she explores cultural identity, narrative and abstraction.
Participants will explore the elements of body presence through
- ABC – Accumulating Being Contrasting)
- Spatial elements – MA 間 both internal and external
- Imaginary exercises – internal and external landscape
Individual narrative will also be explored through
- Characterization)
- Provocation
- Transformation
about BUTOH
Butoh, conceived in Japan during the late 50’s and early 60’s, during the social turmoil after the war sought to find an expression through dance and movement for a visible and invisible state of living. Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dance attempts to expose the joys and sorrows of life through the Butoh Sprit, exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence.
about YUMI UMIUMARE
Yumi is a dancer, choreographer and the creator of Butoh Cabaret and visceral dance theatre works. Originally a member of the seminal Butoh Company DaiRakudakan in Tokyo, she moved to Australia in 1993. Yumi has been creating her distinctive style of hybrid works over the last 20 years and her works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, East and West Europe, New Zealand, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and most recently Indonesia. Her award winning productions include Fleeting Moment, Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl, and DasSHOKU Hora!!. Yumi performs in legendary The Burlesque Hour all over the world and also in the acclaimed aboriginal dance theatre productions Burning Daylight and Ngapartji Ngapartji. Most recently she created EnTrance, a highly praised one-woman multimedia work touring throughout 2010-2011. She teaches Butoh regularly in Australia.
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Sunday 21 Nov | 10.30am – 1.30pm
Admission: RM80 donation
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Enquiries: 010 290 0646 (Natalie Kim - KL)
Please arrive 15 minutes earlier to register.
No previous dance experience necessary.
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Zero Zero Melaka Art and Performance Festival
Saturday 27 November
Thought-provoking new duet performance work by Tony Yap (Malaysia/Aust) and Yumi Umiumare (Japan/Aust)
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Brisbane Powerhouse presents Finucane & Smith's
The Burlesque Hour
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The luscious, legendary, velvet-trimmed, burlesque-eats-its-young Salon that has set critics raving in ten languages and 55,000 audience members around the world in raptures, comes to Brisbane!
Grab your mistletoe! Book a table, and POP the champagne! This is a Christmas show like no other!
The worldwide cult sensation where circus and sideshow, showgirl and showstopper, striptease and cartoon strip, boho and butoh, music-hall and gothic-mayhem are hijacked by astonishing performance art divas.
Internationally acclaimed Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare; circus siren Azaria Universe; elegant iconoclast Maude Davey; and local legend, the darling of dance with a dark twist Brian Lucas as you have never seen him before.
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, Hungarians went wild, while New Zealanders cheered and gasped.
Moira Finucane has been nominated for a Helpmann award for Best Cabaret Performer!! Congratulations Moira!
"From the sublime to the subversive, the hot to the hilarious … outrageous and unforgettable" London Times
"Fantastico!" Il Piccolo Italy
"Seductive, utterly subversive and bursting at the seams with montrous talent" Sunday Age
"Exceptionally sumptuous demented burlesque! And of course it will not be hard to convince me to return every night!" Voyagen Bus, France
This event is recommended for ages 18+. Nudity and strong language.
Tuesday 21st - Thursday 23rd December
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EN TRANCE |
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From her many performances of The Burlesque Hour around the globe, to acclaimed Butoh Cabaret DasShoku Hora!!, Yumi Umiumare's electrifying performance style is in demand the world over.
In this bold work, premiered at Malthouse Theatre to a sell-out season, 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.
"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
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Star Court Theatre
126 Molesworth St, Lismore
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Finucane & Smith's Carnival of Mysteries
Melbourne Festival
Run away to the Carnival, where circus stars and sideshow queens, poets and daredevils, painters, playwrights, aerialists and food artistes concoct a heady mix of unforgettable entertainment under a handmade starry sky
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In the Arts Island Performance 2010
Festival Seni Pertunjakan Keliling
23 June 2010 - 1 July 2010
- Tony Yap (Australia)
- Yumi Umiumare (Japan/Australia)
- Michael Hornblow (New Zealand)
- Brendan O'Connor (Ireland)
- Memet Chairul Slamet (Indonesia)
- Agung Gunawan (Indonesia)
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Butoh Class Weekend Intensive 12 June 2010 - 13 June 2010
In this workshop, Yumi Umiumare introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh dance discipline. The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
Participants will explore:
- Individual body presence/being, focusing on the spatial elements, both internal and external.
- Gravity and Accumulations
- 'Ma' -sense of emptiness, engaging/active blankness
- Memory and Forms
At the end of the workshops, participants will create a shot piece as a conclusion to the process
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Trans-mute Butoh-Caberet 9 to 29 May 2010
Devised by Yumi Umiumare and Melbourne University Students
Melbourne’s legendary Yumi Umiumare, leads student performers in the creation of a playful, transgressive and hyper-energized hybrid. Combining the physical extremes of butoh and the intimate inventiveness of cabaret, Trans-Mute will reframe everyday stories as strange outlandish songs and dances.
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Butoh Intensive Workshop 11 April 2010 - 09 May 2010
In this workshop, Yumi Umiumare introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh dance discipline. At the end of the workshops, participants have the option to create a short piece as a conclusion to the process.
No dance experience required.
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Salon de Dance 5th to 28th March 2010
Premiering in 2009 to become a tearaway bijoux success, Salon de Dance is a seedy, magnificent, intimate dark dance hall, drenched in acid green and gothic noir decor; table seating, lightbulb swinging, liquor sipping, dance lessons during interval. With an ever changing line-up of extraordinary dancers and physical artistes, Salon de Dance is packed to the rafters with provocative, sensual, macabre, generous, and unexpected dance works. The Salon de Dance is wildly contemporary played out in speakeasy chaos. The Salon centrepieces the internationally acclaimed "Banquet Room' declared by Japanese critics as: "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.
"Exaggerated, extreme, unexpected and macabre; it's everything that dance isn't meant to be – and all the more wonderful for it."
- Aus. Theatre
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The Burlesque Hour Salon of Live Ladies!
Adelaide Fringe 2010
The Garden of Unearthly Delights
The Spiegeltent
February 24th - 27th
Unleash your Wild Thing. Grab your Valentine. Because the legendary, velvet-trimmed, genre busting, burlesque-eats-its-young Salon that has set critics raving and 45,000 audience members around the world in raptures, returns!
Starring internationally acclaimed Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese butoh dancer and shock cabaret artiste Yumi Umiumare; circus and burlesque siren Azaria Universe; elegant iconoclast Maude Davey with her infamous Strawberry Act; high swinger Jess Love’s hot late night trapeze; and wild kitten sensation Kitten KO.
In 2006 Adelaide snatched up every last ticket ... Now the divas are back with a meteor-shower of provocative, alluring and astonishing acts… Unmissable…
“Fantastico!” (Il Piccolo)
“Hottest temptation of the festival” (Scotsman)
“Outrageous and Unforgettable” (London Times)
“Transgressive, razor sharp and explosive” (Novi, Croatia)
“Fantastically indecent!” (WDMag Japan)
“This is cabaret on fire” (VecerSlovenia)
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The Burlesque Hour She's Back!
The Street Theatre
Canberra
February 11th - 20th
The worldwide cult sensation where showgirl and showstopper, vaudeville and variety, circus and sideshow, striptease and cartoon strip, music-hall and mayhem are hijacked by astonishing performance art divas, is back in Canberra for a heart-pounding, breath-stopping Valentine's day tour. 'Gob-smacking' New Acts. Hot New Artistes. Spectacular Favourites.
Internationally acclaimed Mistress of Grand Guignol Moira Finucane; Japanese butoh dancer and shock caberet artiste Yumi Umiumare; circus and burlesque siren Azaria Universe; elegant iconoclast Maude Davey are joined by two show stopping guest stars; Miss Toni Lamond, the legend of Australian variety and Jess Love with her hot late night trapeze.
The Italians gave it 10 standing ovations, Edinburgh 5 stars. It stormed Slovenia's major cultual centre and sold three times the tickets available in Rijeka. Tokyo hipsters crowded the Yokohama waterfront and the New Zealanders cheered and gasped.
In 2009 Canberra snatched up every last ticket... now SHE'S BACK with a meteor-shower of provocative, alluring and astonishing actts... Unmissable...
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