TEA BREAK is a new full-length solo work in development, combining dance, spoken words and multimedia. Blending Butoh, Tea and visual theatre, Yumi explores the space between rituals and daily routines of drinking tea.
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Step inside the playful and imaginative world of Japanese Butoh. With a smiling shaman as your guide, you’ll jump headfirst into a world of transformation and shape-shifting, unleashing your inner animal, object, kook and spook.
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EnTrance is a critically acclaimed full-length solo work with multimedia and installations within the metaphor of ‘the near shore’ of life and ‘the far shore’ of death. Award-winning dancer Yumi Umiumare performs the mystical conundrum of ‘the space between’ amid the hubbub of our city-life. ‘EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.’ Canberra Times 2011
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ZeroZero was the second in a triptych and has premiered in Melbourne, in Feb 2013. Collaborated between Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, ZeroZero explores the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. It was presented in Bogota, Columbia (2014) and Melbourne International festival (2014).
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１９９６年からコラボレーションを続けているダンスパートナー、トニー・ヤップとのデュオ作品。「ZeroZero」は３年間のデベロップメント期間をか けて制作され、それぞれの故郷の地マレーシアと日本という自分たちのルーツを探る過程の中で、マラッカ（マレーシア）のタオイズム（道教）のお寺や洞窟、 日本の高野山や恐山も訪れ創作された
Read MoreA series of experimentations of visual poetries, film work and physical theatre, inspired by Yumi’s own experience of her brother who had a cerebral hemorrhage. Is it really happening right in front of us or are we daydreaming? What if our piled up memories were suddenly erased? Our memories are like a heritage but our brain could hemorrhage.
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In collaboration with Indonesian Australian media artist Bambang Nurcahyadi to experiment and create visual poetries- rich tapestry and narratives through ‘e-motion tracking’ process, dividing into different chapters. The audience/viewer’s interactions will be also tested in the process to add another layer that provokes the their expressions and emotion.
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うみうまれのソロダンス代表作。２００９年にメルボルン、モルトハウス劇場でプレミア公演、以後アデレード、キャンベラ、シドニー、クイーンズランドで公演ツアーをした。舞踏、キャバレエ、トランスダンスにコンテンポラリーダンスという４つの影響されたアートフォームをもとに集大成されたマルチメディアとダンスの融合した作品。
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ダンス・ソロ小作品。オリエンタル（Oriental)でありながら、方向がわからなくなって混乱する(ディスオリエントーDisorient)ことをタイトルでもじり、自らの移民生活をメタファーに創った作品。 日常品を使って非日常である現実を表現した動きは、コミカルで抽象的
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