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 Butoh Open Class 2011 Please contact the recent weekly class at Oki-do Yoga
center, 3 Waterloo St Carlton for 2011 Butoh classes.
BUTOH - TRANSFORMATION & PROVOCATION Sunday 21 November 2010 : 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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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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Butoh Dance Workshop 2010 In this workshop, Yumi Umiumare introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh dance discipline.
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| Butoh residential workshop 2008
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The aim of this workshop is to develop body awareness and expression through a response to landscape. The lush landscape in Yarra Valley allows participants to move between bush land, hills, open fields and river, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being with various Japanese techniques.
Butoh - Originating in Japan out of the turbulent protest culture of the early 1960's, Butoh has a literal translation of BU - dance TOH - stomping. Earlier named Ankoku Butoh (the Dance of Darkness), it is one of the major developments in contemporary dance in the latter half of the twentieth century.
" Butoh belongs to life and death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown. It also represents man’s struggle to overcome the distance between himself and the material world. Butoh dancers’ bodies are like a cup filled to overflowing, one which cannot take one more drop of liquid – the body enters a state of perfect balance."
USHIO AMAGATSU, Sankaijuku
- December, 2008
- On the Dee River, Yarra Valley (1.5hours drive from Melbourne)
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| Butoh Residential Workshop 2007
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Over the weekend, Yumi introduced various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being. Qi Gong /Tai Chi Teacher Andy Green was invited to introduce us to a way of controlling and focusing the inner energy. The se body works acted as powerful counterpoints as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.
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Butoh Residential Workshop : March 2004 with Yumi Umiumare and Anthony Pelchen
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'Butoh belongs to life and death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown. It also represents man's struggle to overcome the distance between himself and the material world. Butoh dancers' bodies are like a cup filled to overflowing, one which cannot take one more drop of liquid - the body enters a state of perfect balance.
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Butoh was conceived in Japan during the 60's as a reaction against the traditional values of western ballet, sought to find an expression through dance and movement for the visible and invisible states of life. Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dance attempts to expose the joys and sorrows of life through the Butoh Spirit, exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence.
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The aim of the workshop was to develop body awareness and expression through a response to the landscape. This 140 acre site and nearby Mt Arapiles allowed participants to move between bush land, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to colour, texture, sound and form.
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Over the weekend, the process of charcoal drawing will accompany movement practices, not to produce a pretty picture but to reveal the potential of mark making based on a trust of visual and sensory memory. Here drawing and body work will act as powerful counterpoints and as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.
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Anthony Pelchen was born in Horsham, studied at the Victorian college of Arts and has exhibited widely in Melbourne and recently in Japan. Moving between painting, drawing and installation, his work is informed by the visceral effect of the landscape space, light and textures and has strong links to the site of this workshop - long held family land where he now lives. Since 1998 he has had ongoing collaborations with Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap in gallery, church and landscape spaces, including projects in Japan and Denmark. Since 2001 drawing has resurfaced as a major part of his practice, prompted by time living on three major rivers - the Shoalhaven, the Yarra and the Wimmera Rivers.
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| Workshop History: |
| 2010 | Butoh - transformation & provocation, Annexe Gallery, Kuala Lumpur |
| 2010 | Butoh Class Weekend Intensive, Dancehouse |
| 2010 | Butoh Dance Workshop, Dancehouse |
| 2009 | Butoh Intensive in I-Dance Festival, Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Butoh Residential Workshop |
| 2007 | Butoh Residential Workshop |
| 2006 | Open class for Butoh Dance |
| 2006 | Intensive Butoh workshop at Dancehous |
| 2004 | Butoh Residential Workshop, March 2004, Yumi Umiumare and Anthony Pelchen |
| 2003 | Butoh Intensive in Melbourne International Festival.
Kulcha (Fremantle)
Dancehouse (Melbourne)
Teaching program (MTC) |
| Dansens Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2002 | Wimmra residential workshop
Drama Victoria(Melbourne)
Dancehouse |
| 2001 | Wimmra residential workshop
'Butoh and Calligraphy workshop'(Melbourne) |
| 2000 | Wimmra residential workshop |
| 1998 | University of Melbourne |
| 1996 | La Trobe University and Green Mill festival |
| 1995 | Flinders University, S.A., Launceston and Hobart (Supported by Salamanca Arts 1994 Centre |
| Workshop and presentation at University of Tasmania |
| University of Melbourne |
| Anthill Theatre at Gasworks (Community Access Program) |
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