Butoh & Experiential Art Summer Residential Workshop - 27-30 Nov 2026
心の眼
Other Ways Of Seeing
Leave the certainty of modernity behind and enter the wilderness inside you as we dive into the world of Japanese Butoh and new forms of experiential art making.
@ Arisaig Wellness Retreat, Yandoit, VIC, Australia
「誰でもダンス」ワークショップ＠宝塚ソリオ２
「誰でもダンス」ワークショップ＠宝塚
‘Dance For Everyone’ Workshop in Takarazuka city in Japan
2026年5月9日(土)14:00～16:30
会場 宝塚「ソリオ2」 4階（JR/阪急宝塚駅下車すぐ）
9(Sat) May 2026 ＠SORIO Takarazuka
写真: Vikk Shayen
Green Room Award Winner - ButohBAR番狂わせOUT of ORDER II
GREEN ROOM AWARD WINNER
OUTSTANDING Production Design!!
ButohBAR番狂わせOUT of ORDER II
Congratulations to all of us for making it happen!! Powerhouse team of creativity!
Photo: by Vikk Shayen
Weekly Workshops - Feb/Mar 2026
WEEKLY WORKSHOPS IN 2026
★ Weekly Workshop - Butoh Training ★
(Tue) 10 Feb 2026 to (Tue) 17 March 2026
Every Tuesday 6pm-9pm
@ St Marys Anglican Church Hall, North Melbourne
Photo: by Takahiro Kitagawa
Performance Making Butoh Workshop Series Feb/Mar 2026
WORKSHOPS IN 2026
★ Performance Making Workshop ★
(Fri) 27, (Sat) 28 Feb, (Sun) 1 March 2026
@ Dancehouse, North Carlton
Photo: by Vikk Shayen
Butoh Summer Residential Workshop - 4-7 Dec 2025
BUTOH RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP by YUMI UMIUMARE
4 (THU) ~ 7 (SUN) DEC 2025
@ Arisaig Wellness Retreat, Yandoit
Step into the mystery of Butoh, Japan’s subversive dance form, through 4 days of movement, ritual, and transformation!
Butoh retreat at Taiyo-sha in Iwate
3.5 weeks in Europe, 2 weeks in America, 2 weeks in Western expedition just finished!! 12 plane rides in 7 weeks or so today since I left Melbourne!
Started with a shamanism training camp in Iwate, followed by a dance lab camp in Romania, workshops in England, travelling around Slovakia and Poland, and finally the Salish Sea Butoh Festival near Seattle, USA.
Dancing everywhere
Make tea everywhere
I could feel the Spirit in the woods, rivers and oceans everywhere!
Salish Sea Butoh Festival in Washington
Salish Sea Butoh Festival 2025 in USA
16-24 Aug 2025
in Port Townsend, Washington
The Salish Sea Butoh Festival is an annual artistic convergence in Port Townsend, Washington to celebrate and deepen the study of Japanese Butoh and Butoh performance.
Butoh LabCamp 2025, Romania
Butoh Residential Workshop in Romania
22-30 July 2025
in Transilvania, Romania
Experimentation series #1 "What is the Ultimate?” 究極とは？
Experimentation series #1
Video•Dance•conversation• Drinks
BUTOH and BEYOND
"What is the Ultimate?” 究極とは？
It was fun and stimulated night where we just gathered, experimented and shared!
Weekend Workshop : Butoh as Creative Catalyst
Special Weekend Workshop in Melbourne
27(Fri)-29(Sun) June 2025 (+ an interactive lecture on Friday 27 June ‘What is Butoh?’) @Dancehouse
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE: Live Calligraphy with Hisako Tsuchiya
Extra special performance Sunday 30 March @ 4pm
@SOL Gallery
Yumi dances with her 87 yo mother the calligrapher!
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Annual Performance Season with Tenri University Dance Club, Dec 2024
I am still in awe, to think about this performance, I've done in Japan, as a part of annual performance season with Tenri University Dance club, at the Nara Centennial Hall, December 2024 .
The title: 'あめつちの聲〜 in the middle of the awe'
あめつち（AME TSUCHI): Heaven and Earth
聲(KOE) : Voice
Photo: by Takahiro Kitagawa
Great soundscape by Dan West and Ai Yamamoto
This trip was supposed by Creative Australia, international engagement program.
Special Thanks to Prof. Junko Tsukamoto and Gagaku Master Koji Sato as well as many supporters!
Beyond – Racing Through This Moment
22 (Sun) Dec 2024
At Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Yumi has great opportunity of choreographing and performing at the annual event of the Tenri University Dance Club, Nara Japan, renowned for winning numerous awards due to the high quality and creativity of their dance.Yumi has been staying in Nara for 2 weeks in December, to create and perform a piece, collaborating with 22 dancers and 18 Gagaku musicians to present it on the grand stage of Centennial Hall in front of an audience of 1,500!!
Buried TeaBowl- OKUNI: Ready for Tour!
Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony. The work was premiered in May 2022 with sold out season and now ready for touring around the globe!
IN-VOCATION たまおこし Performance in FRAME: biennial dance festival
Performed at FRAME in 2023 at Dancehouse
Performed by Yumi Umiumare, Kayo Tamura and Kyoko Amara
Installation by Jacqui Stockdale
Sound by Ai Yamamoto
Punk, playful, and exuberant, this is an intimately epic and profanely sacred ritual.
Buried TeaBowl a new solo work in progress
Yumi is creating a new solo work Buried TeaBowl, an interdisciplinary work with dance, text, song and poetry, inspired by Japanese female dancer/shaman, Okuni in 1600’s. The work in progress was completed in Aug 2021, and will be premiered in a live and digital performance in 2022.
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Normal 2 Feb- 23 May 2021
BUTOH OUT! 2021NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre art-form of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal?
UnpredictabiliTEA @Bochum, Germany Sep 2019
PopUp Tearoom Series - UnpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
1 Sep 2020
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
Butoh and Body Weather residential workshop in Dec 2018
Butoh & Body Weather Residential workshop 13-17 December 2018
At Wimmera River Victoria Australia
Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)