Workshop - Butoh Intensive March 2014

Wednesdays 5th – 26th March, 10am – 1.00pm, The course is open to all levels of experience.

Through the 4 week course, Yumi introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh and other dance discipline. Participants will explore:

在り方 Being -individual body presence 重力 Gravitating 感覚 Perceiving 空間 Spatial elements, both internal and external ため Accumulations, Isolation and sensation 間（ま）’Ma’ sense of emptiness, Active blankness, Active pause 記憶 Memory and Poetry 型/面 Form and Mask 摸写/ 反復 Copy and Repetition 想像/ 創造 Imagination to Creation

Through the practice, the participants will also create a short piece, exploring; Characterisation Provocation Transformation Tune in/Tune out Embrace the unknown

At the end of the workshops, we will have a informal gathering to show and tell about the work we create.

BOOKING AND ENQUIRY

Butoh Residential Workshop 26(Fri)-29(Mon) April 2013 @Wimmera River

Butoh Residential Workshop26(Fri)-29(Mon) April 2013 @Wimmera River 風景の声を聞く

Tuning into landscape

Lead by Yumi Umiumare With a local visual artist Anthony Pelchen

Let us dive into the dirt and sand dunes! This popular residential workshop is to expand our body awareness,deepen our consciousness and unleash our internal expressions through a response to landscape. This 140 acre site nearby to Mt Arapiles allows participants to move between bush land,sand dunes, open fields,river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to color,texture, sound and form.

Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various exercises for “tuning” into our own links between the external environment and the internal landscape, focusing also breathing,exploring our deep expression and consciousness of well-being. The stillness of the landscape will let us explore the deeper and authentic part of our "being" and cleanse our busy thoughts.

There is a special charcoal drawing session will be run by a local visual artist Anthony Pelchen.

Come and join us!

Cost:$330/300 (including vegetarian meal)

Please Book by 20 April as numbers are limited.

Butoh Residential Workshop 2012

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The aim of this workshop is to expand body awareness, deepen consciousness and unleash internal expression though a response to landscape. This 130 acre site near Mt Arapiles allows participants to move between bush-land, sand dunes, open fields, river and elevated rock, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various methods of Butoh, Chi/Gravity exercises, breathing methods and encourage a fuller expression and consciousness of well-being.  The body practices, voice work and drawing will act as powerful counterpoints and as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.

Kyoko (known as Earth Voice Kyoko) will share simple techniques for grounding body energy and connecting with the inner voice. Anthony will run a session of charcoal drawing that tap into this and the overall energetic build-up over the weekend.

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Butoh Intensive Workshop 11 April 2010 - 09 May 2010

In this workshop, Yumi Umiumare introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh dance discipline. At the end of the workshops, participants have the option to create a short piece as a conclusion to the process. No dance experience required.

Dance House Dance House » Dates: 11/4, 18/4, 25/4, 2/5, 9/5 Times: 10am - 1pm Cost: $120/$150 for 5 sessions

Contact Yumi for more information

Butoh residential workshop 2008

With Yumi UmiumareButoh Workshop The aim of this workshop on the Dee River, Yarra Valley was to develop body awareness and expression through a response to landscape. The lush landscape in Yarra Valley allows participants to move between bush land, hills, open fields and river, opening up the senses to color, texture, sound and form. Over the weekend, Yumi will introduce various methods of Butoh, Body Awareness and Consciousness of Well-being with various Japanese techniques. Butoh - Originating in Japan out of the turbulent protest culture of the early 1960's, Butoh has a literal translation of BU - dance TOH - stomping. Earlier named Ankoku Butoh (the Dance of Darkness), it is one of the major developments in contemporary dance in the latter half of the twentieth century.

"Butoh belongs to life and death. It is a realization of the distance between a human being and the unknown. It also represents man’s struggle to overcome the distance between himself and the material world. Butoh dancers’ bodies are like a cup filled to overflowing, one which cannot take one more drop of liquid – the body enters a state of perfect balance." USHIO AMAGATSU, Sankaijuku