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Adelaide August 22-31 Antistatic
Christchurch Sept 25 - Oct 12 The Body Festival of Dance and Physical Theatre
Byron Bay (Northern Rivers Performing Arts), Cairns (On Edge Contemporary Media & Performance), Melbourne (ACMI), Sydney (Performance Space Carriageworks), Hobart (Salamanca Arts Centre), Perth (Perth Institute of Contemporary Art) , Noosa, Brisbane World Dance Alliance & Ausdance QLD |
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The ABC of Dance 4 Film
Episodes One to Three
Something to look forward to for fans of contemporary dance is a compendium of short dance films from around the world hosted by Frances Rings (Aust) and Jonzi D (from the UK)..
Launched in December 2007 at the Australian High Commission in London and screened as part of the 4th International Dance Film Festival in Yokohama, 2008, this is a unique and exciting collaboration between the ABC, the Australian Council, Channel 4 (UK) and the Arts Council England.
The first of the series of three 30 minute dance programs to be shown over consecutive Tuesday’s in Artscape from 8th April, 2008, includes the especially commissioned works Dis-oriental from Sean O'Brien, choreographed and performed by Yumi Umiumare and Rosie Dennis & Samuel James with Quietly Collapsed. |
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Yumi Umiumare was inspired by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s emergency cardboard tubing house and the notion that a house, usually an object of permanence, could be specifically designed to provide momentary comfort.
Using everyday objects as metaphors of 'loss', while also collecting residential memories defined by a psycho-emotional space, Yumi takes on the notion of 'oriental' in the context of moving and living in "foreign" spaces. She explores the cracks and spaces between disorientation / destruction & attraction / familiarities.
Director: Sean O'Brien 6 mins, Australia, 2007
Choreography/performance: Yumi Umiumare
Sound Design: Cat Hope
| Dis-Oriental, Performance History and Screenings |
| 2004 |
As a part of ‘Women in Transit’ at performance Space, Sydney |
| 2006 |
Spring Dance at Dancehouse, Melbourne |
| 2007 |
OzAsia Festival at Space, Adelaide |
| 2008 |
4th International Dance Film Festival, Yokohama |
| 2008 |
The ABC of Dance 4 Film, ABC - Artscape |
| 2008 |
ReelDance Tour, Australia and New Zealand |
" ....Yumi Umiumare does incredibly intense solo in which her Japanese heritage and butoh dance background provide an irresistible focus for small actions on personal or domestic themes that hint at larger concerns......The transformations is riveting, powered by the knowledge that visual is built on layers of psychological and emotional considerations."
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Thanks to Deborah Pollard, Rakini Davi, for the original project Women in Transit (2004)
Women in Transit »
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