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「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

 

Photo by Vikk Shayen

「誰でもダンス」ワークショップ@宝塚

Dance For Everyone’ Workshop in Takarazuka city in Japan

 by ゆみ うみうまれ(メルボルン在住舞踏家)

2026年5月9日(土)14:00~16:30
9(Sat) May 2026

会場 宝塚市栄町2-1-2「ソリオ2」 4階(JR/阪急宝塚駅下車すぐ)Google リンク
 (男女共同参画センター·エル 学習交流室1A·B)

主催 MYSELF 
共催 フォーラムシアタークラブ

参加費 3000円

問い合わせ·予約

SOLD OUT売り切れにて予約を締め切らせていただきます。ありがとうございます。

(当日は動きやすい服装でお越しください)

感じてみよう! 自分の感覚
聞いてみよう!自分の声
入ってみよう!不思議な世界
踊ってみよう!自分のカラダで!

それはもしかしたら懐かしいもの、知っているもの、ぶっ飛ぶもの、新しいもの。

体の底から生まれるホントの自分、その自分の表現、自由を、発散·発酵してみませんか?

33年、オーストラリア·メルボルンに住み
35年、表現活動で身を立て
50年近く、舞台に立ち続け
10年以上ニッポンの茶道を学び
英語と日本語を駆使し世界中を駆け巡るゆみ·うみうまれと一緒に踊ってみませんか?

優しい自分、いい子ちゃんぶる自分、ブチ切れる自分、呆けた自分や、思考停止の自分、
はたまた、みたこともない素晴らしい自分、そして、これからの「新しい自分」。
そんなあなたを表現してみませんか?

過去の日本人参加者からの声

「空にドッカンーと穴がように、新しい世界が開きました」
(若手ビジュアル・アーティスト現在ドイツ在住)

「変顔がオフィスでフツーにできるようになりました笑」
(スピリチュアルを求めるOL)

「もう人生全てが舞踏に見えてきて、ありえないぐらい楽しくなりました」
(真面目に生きてる2児の母)

「何やってもいいんだ、と勇気が出ました」
(東北在住主婦)


ゆみうみうまれ

兵庫県宝塚市出身、神戸大学教育学部卒、オーストラリア·メルボルン在住。
メルボルンを拠点にパフォーマー、アクター、ディレクター、振付家として活動、舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU」プロジェクトとButouOUT!フェスティバルを主宰する。東京の舞踏グループ、大駱駝艦メルボルン公演ツアー(1991年)への参加を機に1993年に移住。以来、オーストラリアをはじめ、日本、東南アジア、ヨーロッパ各地で公演やワークショップを重ねる。アボリジニー文化を含む豪州文化と日本文化の交流演劇作品創作にも尽力するなど、日豪国際交流の担い手でもある。

文化的アイデンティティや社会問題を鋭く捉えつつ、ユーモアを交えた独自のスタイルは国内外で高く評価され、オーストラリア·グリーンルーム賞を多数受賞。2024年には「Living Legend (生ける伝説)」メルボルン·フリンジ·フェスティバル賞も受賞した。

振付家としては「生きることはダンスそのもの」「誰でもダンス!」を提唱し、多国籍難民、身体障害者、社会的に困難な状況にある人々、舞台経験のない人々との演劇制作にも多数関わる。「踊り」「お茶」「スピリット」を活動の三本柱とし、舞踏にとどまらない幅広い表現を追求している。

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天理大学ダンス部単独公演より2024年
Photo: Takahiro Kitagawa

ルーマニア舞踏ワークショップより2025年


 
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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

 
 

GREEN ROOM AWARD
OUTSTANDING Production Design!!

ButohBAR番狂わせOUT of ORDER II

Congratulations to of us for making it happen!! Powerhouse team of creativity!

🔥Visual Art @jacquistockdale
🔥Music @ai_yamamoto_mel 🔥Web/Grafic @taka_takiguchi
🔥Lighting Emma Lockhart-Wilson
🔥Photo @vikkshayen
🔥Video @takeshi_kondo_mot
🔥Food &Drinks @tamurasakebar

Co-Creators of ButohOUT!
@taka_takiguchi
@yumiumiumare

MASSIVE THANKS TO
@asiatopa
@abbotsfordconvent

and

All ButohOUT! Ensemble members, helpers and volunteers!!
@em.kimber
@elizabethnichollsartist
Spira Stojanovik


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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

 

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

This weekly workshop (6 sessions in total) trains the body through the transformative philosophy of classic and contemporary Butoh. Melbourne-based Butoh punkess Yumi Umiumare leads physical and imaginal practices that shake the body awake, activate space, disrupt habitual thinking, and push imagery across physical and metaphysical territories.

Originally known as the “Dance of Darkness,” Butoh is layered, contradictory, and unruly. The body becomes a site of transformation, between the known and the unknown, the real and the unreal, the visible and the invisible. We are playfully venturing into realms of disturbance, the grotesque, beauty, and darkness.

Enter the mysterious, unsettling, and strangely liberating world of Butoh!
No experience needed. Beginners welcome.

$35/ per class for drop in
$180 for 6 sessions 

Themes of the exercises (subject to change)

1.10 Feb AIR気: Space and Air 流れと空気・花粉空間

2. 17 Feb EARTH 土: Gravity and Suspension, Earth  重力と宙吊りの身体

3. 24 Feb: WATER水 Water exercise , Shaking, Waving 揺れ・ぶれ・はぐれ 水の動き

4. 3 March: FIRE火 : Movement as flame, Repetition, Accumulation, MA(space)  間と溜め 火の動き

5. 10 March: WOOD木Memory and Forms, Silence as tree 記憶と型 木の静けさ

6. 17 March : MIXING ALL elements, Memory and Poetry 記憶とポエム、想像と創造


If you would like to join our mailing list to be notified of up coming workshops
please sign up here or contact Yumi.

Photo: Takahiro Kitagawa (as a part of Tenri University annual dance 2024)

Photo: Vikk Shayen (as a part of ButohOUT! 2025)


Up Coming Workshop

Performance Making Workshop 
(Fri) 27, (Sat) 28 Feb, (Sun) 1 March 2026
@ Dancehouse, North Carlton 

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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

 

photo by Vikk Shayen (ButohOUT!2025)

Performance Making Workshop through Butoh and Beyond ★ 
27(Fri), 28(Sat) Feb, 1 (Sun) March 2026
@Dancehouse, North Carlton

This workshop invites participants to explore a unique laboratory process of performance-making through constructive and deconstructive approaches to Butoh.

Drawing on over 30 years of performance experience, Yumi guides participants through interdisciplinary practices including Butoh, cabaret, abstract theatre, ritual, and spirituality. Through Butoh-based exercises and experimentation, participants are encouraged to explore their own idiosyncratic creative processes and to actualise original inspirations and ideas.

The workshop offers a journey of deep sensing and listening, opening access to unexpected creative sources where anything is possible. It welcomes both experienced practitioners and those new to Butoh who are willing to dive into the creative process. Visualisations, conversations, and adaptable instruction ensure accessibility for all bodies.

The workshop includes:

  • Guided warm-up

  • Sensory-based Butoh exercises

  • Individual, paired, and group creation

  • Feedback and creative support

If you would like to join our mailing list to be notified of up coming workshops please sign up here or contact Yumi.

Terms & Conditions

Photo: Takahiro Kitagawa (as a part of Tenri University annual dance 2024)

Photo from ButohOUT!


The planned activities are outlined below.

 > Day 1 - Friday 27 Feb
 6:00 - 6:15 pm - Registration, sign up, introduction
6:15 - 7:30 pm -  Mini lecture about what is Butoh (slides and short video presentation) 
7:30-7:35 - Short break
7:35 - 9pm - Exercise #1: Warm-up, Activating different parts of body through various images

> Day 2 - Saturday 28 Feb
10:00am - 12:00pm -  Exercise #2: Warm-up, conceiving, visualising and exploring your/others ideas 
12:00 - 12:45pm - Lunch break
12:45 - 1:00pm - Questions and Conversation
1:00 - 3:45pm - Exercise #3 : Exploring various styles : what is your favourite/challenging styles and forms?
3: 45 - 4:00pm - Discussion Q and A

> Day 3 - Sunday 1 March
10am - 12pm -  Exercise #4 : Transformation through narrative/abstraction : what is your trans-formation?
12:00 - 12:45pm - Lunch break
12:45 -  1:00pm -Questions and Conversation
1:00 - 3:00pm - Exercise #5 : Make it up!! : Making some shape through visible and invisible aspect. How?
3:00 - 4:00pm - Creation of a short work, discussion, Q and A, feedback &  debrief 

Other workshop in 2026

Weekly Workshop - Butoh Training ★ 

10(Tue) Feb - 17 (Tue) March 2026
Every Tuesday 6pm-9pm 
@ St Marys Anglican Church Hall, North Melbourne


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please sign up here or contact Yumi.

 
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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, Japans subversive dance form, through 4 days of movement, ritual, and transformation!

 

Photo by Namchops/ Design by Alex White

Excerpt from Butoh Residential WS 2019 @ Arisaig Wellness Restreat

 

Butoh- Through magic & Mystery
舞踏 -その神秘と不可思議さ

Step into the mystery of Butoh, Japans subversive dance form, through 4days of movement, ritual, and transformation!

This popular annual residential workshop returns, inviting participants to discover their own creative expression and mystery through the physical and philosophical approach of Butoh—a Japanese contemporary and subversive dance form.

Over four days, Yumi will introduce both practical and ‘mysterious’ methods of Butoh, channeling our internal and external creative expression. The stillness and wildness of the landscape will enable us to explore our deeper, authentic "being," and to cleanse our busy thoughts.

Just over 1.5 hours from Melbourne, Arisaig Wellness Retreat is nestled in Yandoit, near Castlemaine. Set on 100 acres of serene bushland, surrounded by stunning Australian native flora, it offers hidden corners and quiet spaces that create the perfect refuge. The beautiful studio, designed to capture an abundance of natural light, provides uninterrupted views of the surrounding wilderness.

Through sharing food and gentle conversation, participants can explore a consciousness of well-being, as well as the essence of ‘personal ritual’—through breathing, walking, moving, and even occasional screaming and laughter. The workshop allows you to explore the intersection of movement, ritual, and spirituality—fostering a deeper connection to yourself, to others, and to the world around you.

Originally called the “Dance of Darkness,” 舞踏 Butoh contains many layers of practice and philosophy. Yumi believes it exists beyond duality—where darkness and light are not fixed states, and one always contains the seeds of the other. Through the magic and mystery of Butoh, ‘beauty’ can be ugly, and ‘ugly’ can be beautiful. Broken things can become catalysts for transformation.

Yumi is renowned for combining Butoh (the darkness) with lightness and humour, embracing a holistic humanity.

THE WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO ALL LEVEL OF EXPERIENCES AND ARTISTIC DISCIPLINES!

PLACES ARE LIMITED!

PLANNED SCHEDULE
(subject to be changed)

THURSDAY 4 DEC
 By 5pm Arriving, setting up tent, and settle in
 6:30pm Dinner 
 8pm Session 1 (Gathering and Greeting) 

FRIDAY 5 DEC
 6:30 am Silent Walk and Exercise
 Breakfast
 10-1pm Session 2
 Lunch 
 3-6pm Session 3
 Dinner
 8pm Session 4 (Gathering) 

SATURDAY 6 DEC
 6:30 am Silent Walk and Exercise
 Breakfast
 10-1pm Session 5
 Lunch 
 3-6pm Session 6
 Dinner
 8pm ~  Performance preparation and Performance

SUNDAY 7 DEC
 Breakfast
 Gathering, debrief and packing
11 am Departure


WORKSHOP DETAILS

FACILITATORS
Yumi Umiumare

WHEN
Thur 4- Sun 7 Dec 2025

(arrive by 5pm on Thursday 4th, finishing late morning on Sunday 7th)

WHERE
Arisaig Wellness Retreat
Yandoit, Victoria


COST
Early Bird - by 22 Oct 2025

$680 Full / $590 Concession
Standard
$720 Full / $630 Concession

(Including All Training/Workshops, Camping Space, Vegetarian Meals and access to Toilet and Shower)

ACCOMMODATION
Accommodation: Participants will be camping amongst the beauty of the bush to allow for a deeper connection to Mother Earth.

Additional options for beds available on request, during the booking process.

 
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