Dance Palace performing at LUNA PARK with Finucane and Smith!!
Melbourne Legends Finucane & Smith turn 30, reopening Luna Park’s iconic Luna Palace with Dance Palace — Yumi joins a lush and live carnival of hot divas, hot chips and all sauce!
TEA UNIVERSE
TEA UNIVERSE 2026
Two experiences. One tea portal.
Daytime 🍵
お茶の迷路 TEA MAZE
An intimate VR tea experience with matcha and Japanese sweets.
Evening 🌙
お茶酔い TEA TRANCE
A live Butoh performance with dance, video and VR elements.
Experience one event or immerse yourself in both.
Tea Maze お茶の迷路
Entangling old world Kabuki mystique with volumetric 3D performance, “Tea Maze” summons the sacred power of female archetypes and deities in a truly unique VR experience.
TEA TRANCE お茶酔い
TEA TRANCE お茶酔い
Wednesday 26 August 2026 - Saturday 29 August 2026
At Swinburne University of Technology, EN106, John St , Hawthorn
An immersive performance blending Butoh, tea ceremony and VR into an intoxicating sensory adventure. Through live performance, Yumi Umiumare invites audiences to enter the alchemy of dance, tea and spirit through classical and contemporary rituals, playful disruption, and surreal transformation.
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!
Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to OzAsia Festival 28, 29 Oct 2023
Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to Adelaide, OZAsia Festival.
Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony.
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.
Jujutsu 呪術 Project
Jujutsu Project is a research project by Yumi Umiumare, exploring Jujutsu, the Japanese notion of shamanism. Yumi works with three artists and five specialists, including a first nations artist, a celebrant, scientists, a veterinarian/animal communicator and artists from diverse backgrounds in Australia, Japan & USA via online and live meetings.
Pop-up Tearoom Series
The pop-up TEAroom series offers various experiences through the rituals of tea ceremonies, installation and performance. Audiences are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and pop-up performances will be happening during rituals.
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! In Development
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! will be 5th DasSHOKU Butoh cabaret series since 2012. Smashing together Yumi’s recent practice in Japanese tea ceremony (PopUp Tearoom Series) with her signature, iconic Butoh Cabaret series, DasSHOKU Tea ParTEA! combines elements of Butoh, Cabaret, and spoken word, woven from Japanese tea ceremony into English tea party, from Brazilian samba into Okuni-Kabuki dance during the Edo period in early 1600.
Buried TeaBowl- OKUNI
Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shaman Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.