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 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.
Durational Works at SOL GALLERY
Durational Works
1-12 July 2026
@SOL Gallery 420 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
SOL GALLERY EVENT SITE:
Throughout the exhibition, Yumi will activate the space through a series of durational performance experiments.
(FREE EVENT)
Performance Dates & Times
3 (Fri) July between 1-5pm
4 (Sat) July between 1-5pm
5 (Sun) July between 1-5pm
10 (Fri) July between 1-5pm
11 (Sat) July between 1-5pm
12 (Sun) July between 1-5pm
Part of the Experimental Series #3 by Yumi Umiumare
舞踏の森33/Forest of Butoh 33
A living archive of 33 years of Butoh, transformation, migration and artistic mischief.
Experimental Series #3 at SOL GALLERY
Experimental Series #3 by Yumi Umiumare
舞踏の森33/Forest of Butoh 33
A living archive of 33 years of Butoh, transformation, migration and artistic mischief.
1-12 July 2026
@SOL Gallery 420 Brunswick Street, Fitzroy
Butoh Performance by Yumi Umiumare
2 (Thur) July 7pm - SOLD OUT
9 (Thur) July 7pm - SOLD OUT
11 (Sat) July 7pm - EXTRA show added!
What is Butoh?
Featuring special international guest Rosemary Candelario (scholar-artist, Butoh dancer, and Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at The University of Texas at Austin) in conversation with Yumi Umiumare.
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!
EXPERIMENTAL NIGHT at SOL GALLERY
Experimentation Series #1
VIDEO, DANCE , CONVERSATION, DRINKS
BUTOH and BEYOND
What is the ultimate?究極とは？
Tuesday 17 June at 7pm
@SOL Gallery 420 Brunswick StreetFitzroy
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!
JAPANESQUE NIGHT ジャパネスク・ナイト！
Amazing dancers from TENRI University from Japan are coming next week to Melbourne, so we are organsing a night event, bit of Japan, with contemporary dance, music, tea and of course Butoh!
Please come along to see them!!
SUN 22 SEP 2024
6:30pm open / 7pm show starts
(approx 1 hour duration)
Venue:
@izakayabytamura BY TAMURA 田村笑店
343 Smith St, Fitzroy
Ticket at the door $15/$10
Fill the Earth (digital presentation)
Fill the Earth (digital presentation) 12-14 July 2024
A special choreography for the Tenri University Creative Dance's annual performance
Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
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 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?
Weekend intensive workshops for professionals, non professionals, kid& family and senior in March/April 2021@ Abbotsford Convent
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March : Weekend workshop
★27(Sat) March : Family, Kids and Senior workshop
★24(Sat)-25(Sun) April : Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
Wanna Be a Rabbit? with Weave Movement Theatre
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:Will I ever be perfect? Am I invisible? How do I get out of here? My sheets need a wash. It’s dark. Is that a rabbit? The show is going to be premiered 2020.