Wanna Be a Rabbit? by Weave Movement Theatre is now postponed till 2022
Wanna Be a Rabbit? the show by Weave Movement Theatre directed by Yumi Umiumare is postponed till 2022
A dynamic collaboration between Yumi Umiumare and Weave Movement Theatre. Highly visual physical theatre with a sense of the ridiculous.
Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, the show is postponed till 2021.
Wannabe a Rabbit? is the outcome of the unique chemistry between Yumi Umiumare, international 'Butoh Cabaret' artist and Weave, a company of disabled and non-disabled performers.
Through Butoh-esque absurdity, highly visual physical theatre, text and startling installations, the work humorously reverses societal perceptions. It probes the human compulsion to categorise and judge. What are you? A wife, a worker, disabled, a refugee, black/white, an Aussie oi oi, a rabbit?
CREDITS
Director/Choreographer : Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator/Performers:
David Baker, Willow J Conway, Trevor Dunn, Janice Florence,
Zya Kane, Greg Muir, Emma Norton, Anthony Riddell, Takashi Takiguchi
Producer: Janice Florence (Artistic Director, Weave Movement Theatre)
Sound Designer : Dan West
Installation artist: Pimpisa Tinpalet
Costume designers: Joe Noonan & Brynna Lowen
Lighting designer: Rachel Lee
Videographer : Tan Kang Wei
Photographer: Vikk Shayen
Outside eye: Maude Davey
Photos (below) by Paul Dunn
Weekend Intensive Workshop 24(Sat) 25(Sun) April 2021 @ Abbotsford Convent
This is a unique weekend workshop for participants to dive into an interdisciplinary collaboration between Butoh, voice, and visual art. We will be led by a trio of oddball experts: Yumi Umiumare (Butoh), Emma Bathgate (voice) and Jacqui Stockdale (visual arts/mask/collage).
Yumi Umiumare and Pauline Sherlock. Collage elements by Jacqui Stockdale, graphic design by Monica Benova, photo by Mathew Lynn.
This is a unique weekend workshop for participants to dive into an interdisciplinary collaboration between Butoh, voice, and visual art. We will be led by a trio of oddball experts: Yumi Umiumare (Butoh), Emma Bathgate (voice) and Jacqui Stockdale (visual arts/mask/collage).
Participants will be guided upon a search for something indescribable yet internally provocative; tantalising and thrilling. Together we will facilitate a dive into the unexpected wonders of a world in which anything is possible.
“Something odd,
Something not fitting in
Something not matching
Something bent and broken
Something abandoned
yet something perfect for you at this moment”
All levels of experience are welcome to share the space, energy and interaction of our New Ab/Normal.
Details
Booking
Workshop Schedule (Subject to change)
Sat 24 April - Day 1
9:00am -9:30am - registration, sign up and introduction lead by Yumi Umiumare
9:30am-11:20am - Physical warm up with Butoh exercises
Short beak
11:30am-1:00pm - Voice warm up and experimentation lead by Emma Bathgate
Lunch Break 1pm- 1:45pm
1:45pm-2:00pm - Set up and introduction for the afternoon session
2:00pm-4:30pm - Visual arts experimentation lead by Jacqui Stockdale
Short break
4:40pm- 5:45 pm - Experimentation lead by Yumi, Emma and Jacqui
5:45pm- 6:00pm - Short debrief and Q and A
Sun 25 April - Day 2
9:00am -9:15am - Registration, sign up
9:15am-11:20am - Physical warm up with Butoh exercises
Short beak
11:30am-1:00pm - Voice warm up and experimentation lead by Emma
Lunch Break 1pm- 1:45pm
1:45pm-2:00pm - Set up and introduction for the afternoon session
2:00pm-4:00pm - Visual arts experimentation lead by Jacqui
Short break
4:10pm- 5:40 pm - Creation guided by Yumi, Emma and Jacqui
5:40pm- 6:00pm - Feedback and debrief
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?
BUTOH OUT! 2021
NEW 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 artform of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal? Originally called Dance of Darkness, Butoh has always been associated with the marginalised, embracing the abnormal, odd, quirky & the deviant. One of the first Butoh performances so shocked its Japanese audiences that it was forced to go underground, yet now it is accepted as an innovative art form. Conversely, what we used to think as ‘normal’ is no longer so. Instead, the term, 'new normal' exists, which contains the paradoxical nuance that an abnormality can become ‘normal’. We hang onto a semblance of normalcy like a security blanket - but why?
ButohOUT! 2021 offers 5 public workshops including one for children and seniors, a performance-making laboratory, a forum and 2 performance presentations, one at Dancehouse and Abbotsford Convent.
WORKSHOPS
@ Abbotsford Convent
★2(Tue)-23(Tue) Feb 2021
Weekly workshop
Is Butoh Abnormal?
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March 2021
Weekend workshop
What is normal in Butoh?
★27(Sat) March 2021
Family and Kids workshop
Peek-A- Butoh
(FREE)
★27(Sat) March 2021
Senior workshop
You Don't Think You Can Dance?
| For 50+, 60+, 70+ or beyond
(FREE)
★ 24(Sat) 25 (Sun) April 2021
Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
What is our New Ab/Normal?
PERFORMANCE
★25-28 March 2021
Colour-Fool (4 shows only!!)
@Dancehouse
Detail
★20-23 May 2021
Odd Hours (4 shows only!!)
@Abbortsford Convent
Detail
About
ButohOUT! Festival is An Artists-led, inclusive festival that breaks expectations and boundaries. It invites diverse arts and non-arts communities to engage with the profound internationally-acclaimed art form of Butoh. ButohOUT! also engages with international Butoh dancers to interact with local Australian practitioners from new initiates to established performers in an open exchange of expertise and performance.
Creative team of ButohOUT! 2021
Director & Choreographer: Yumi Umiumare
Producer: Takashi Takiguchi
Emma Bathgate(Voice)
Jacqui Stockdale(Visual arts)
Dan West and Ai Yamamoto (Sound)
Rachel Lee(Lighting)
Monika Benova(Graphic Design)
Performers:
Kiki Ando, Emma Bathgate, David Blom, Jessie Ngaio, Pauline Sherlock, Tomoko Yamasaki, Takashi Takiguchi, Yumi Umiumare and ButohOUT! Ensemble
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
Collage elements by Jacqui Stockdale, Graphic design by Monica Benova, Photo by Mathew Lynn.
ButohOUT! 2021 New Ab/Nomral
Workshop Series are happening in Melbourne at Abbotsford Convent in March and April 2021.
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March 2021
Weekend workshop : What is Normal in Butoh?
Detail
★27(Sat) March 2021
Family and Kids workshop: Peek-A- Butoh (FREE)
Detail
★27(Sat) March 2021
Workshop for For 50+, 60+, 70+ or beyond : You Don't Think You Can Dance? (FREE)
Detail
★24(Sat)-25(Sun) April 2021
Weekend workshop : What is our New Ab/Normal?
Detail
2020Trance-Formation : Butoh On-Line& Off-Line workshop
Yumi is running Open Butoh Workshop Trans-Formation, On-line on Tuesday night and Off -line on Friday morning outdoor in Melbourne.
Photo by Mathew Lynn
transforming body and space through on & Off-line of Butoh!
Yumi is running Open Butoh Workshop:Trance-Formation, on-line on Tuesday night and of-line on Friday morning outdoor in Melbourne. Yumi will introduce creative exercises of Butoh and Beyond, for participants to explore their own unique expressions.
Through the various exercises, the workshop will embrace the moment of Trans-Formation and its gate way.
The details are as below.
Resister the form on this page
You will get the Zoom link or location for the workshop.
If it is Zoom session, please find your own space for you to move and roll (wearing comfortable clothes)-check your dog or cat are not over excited around you.
Please enter /arrive at least 5min before the session.
Donate as you go or as a bulk. Suggested price range $5-20
Session times:
Zoom: Tuesday (MELBOURNE TIME GMT+10)
16 June| TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
23 June | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
30 June | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
7 July | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
14 July | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
21 July | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:30pm
OUT DOOR EXPERIMENT : FRIDAY
CANCELLED due to COVID-19 restrictions.
SORRY!!
Registration
In order to make classes safe and secure for everyone, a Zoom link will be sent to your email manually instead of direct Zoom email, so PLEASE RESISTER BY 2HOURS BEFORE THE SESSIONS.
Donations
PAYMENT BY DONATION via secure paypal
PayPal Link (under Yumi Tsuchiya)
Depending on your financial capacity, please donate what you can afford.
We are encouraging for participants to pay range between $5-20 per session or pay as bulk!
Let Yumi knows if you prefer the direct debt.
You can send me your own suggested price or exchange if you wish!
舞踏オープンクラス、火曜日の夜にあります。
上にある時間はメルボルン時間なので１時間早い時間が日本時間です。
（火曜日：17:00-18:30)
このページにあるRESISTARATION （登録）をしていただけたら、週ごとにZoomLinkをお送りします。
問い合わせはENQURYを、支払いはドネーションとしてますのでDONATIONのリンクを（英語のPayPalLink）押してください。
皆さんの経済状況によって払える分だけお払いください。まとめての支払いもOK. 日本のアカウントがよければおしらせします。
（オーストラリアでは1 回１０ドル前後を目安としてますがご自由にお決めください）
2020 OUT OF THE BOX - Butoh online open sessions
Yumi is running online Butoh Class- OUT OF THE BOX every Tuesday evening and Friday morning.
Join her Zoom sessions and unleash your body and mind into the Butoh world!
CAN WE DO BUTOH IN YOUR GARDEN? LOUNGE ROOM? KITCHEN?
OR EVEN the BEDROOM? WHY NOT!
Yumi is hosting Open Butoh Classes every Tuesday night and Friday morning while we are not able to run studio workshop! Yumi will introduce creative exercises on your own environment for us to be out of ‘our of the box’, exploring for our physical and mental spaces.
The details are as below.
Resister the form on this page
You will get the Zoom links each week
Find your own space for you to move and roll (wearing comfortable clothes)-check your dog or cat are not over excited around you.
Join the session
Donate as you go or as a bulk , or you can discuss with Yumi some exchange !
Session times:
(MELBOURNE TIME GMT+10)
21 April | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:15pm
24 April | FRI | 10:00am - 11:15 am
28 April | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:15pm
01 May | FRI | 10:00am - 11:15 am
05 May | TUE | 6:00pm -7 :15pm
08 May | FRI | 10:00am - 11:15 am
12 May | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:15pm
15 May | FRI | 10:00am - 11:15 am
19 May | TUE | 6:00pm - 7:15pm
22 May |FRI | 10:00am - 11:15 am
Registration
In order to make classes safe and secure for everyone, a Zoom link will be sent to your email instead of having it publicly available.
donations and exchanges
PAYMENT BY DONATION via secure paypal
( Depending on your financial capacity but encouraging to pay around $10 per session or pay as bulk )
You can send me your own suggested price or exchange if you wish!
舞踏オープンクラス、火曜日の夜と金曜日の朝にあります。
上にある時間はメルボルン時間なので１時間早い時間が日本時間です。
（火曜日：１７：００−１８：１５ 金曜日 ９：００−１０：１５）
このページにあるRESISTARATION （登録）をしていただけたら、週ごとにZoomLinkをお送りします。
問い合わせはENQURYを、支払いはドネーションとしてますのでDONATIONのリンクを（paypal）押してください。
皆さんの経済状況によって払える分だけお払いください。まとめての支払いもOK.
（オーストラリアでは1 回１０ドル前後を目安としてますがご自由にお決めください）
Butoh Online Open Class -OUT OF THE BOX
Yumi is running online Butoh Class- OUT OF THE BOX - for every Tuesday evening and Friday morning.
Join her Zoom session and make your body and mind to unleash into the Butoh world!
Classes are now here!
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.
The Performance season in June 2020 were both Cancelled Due to the COVID-19.
new dates is going to be announced soon.
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?
Wannabe a Rabbit? is directed and Choreographed by Yumi Umiumare in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre. A fusion of Butoh and Physical Theatre, the work moved between the surreal and absurd; humorously reversing the perceptions of difference.
Wannabe A Rabbit? invites audiences on an investigation between the surreal ad the absurd; exploring universal human themes like:
Surfacing in reaction to the atrocities caused post World War II and initially referred to as the ‘Dance of Darkness’, Butoh converges themes of naturism and humanism. ButohOUT! intends to activate the spirit of Butoh through the local and national, contemporary dance community.
“Their strength lies in the performers’ ability to make the banal magical” – The Age
(review for Weave’s previous work)
Credit
Director: Yumi Umiumare
in collaboration with Weave Movement Theatre
Producer: Janice Florence
Sound designer: Dan West
Costume designer: Matilda Woodroofe
Lighting designer: Jennifer Hector
Installation artist: Pimpisa Tinpalit
from ButohOUT!2018 photo by Mifumi Obata
ButohOUT! 2020
Celebrating its third year, ButohOUT! 2020 offers five workshops and two performance seasons exploring the artistic theme of ‘Primal Colour.’ In earlier expressions of Butoh, dancers typically wore white body paint, believed to 'erase' the performers excessive and artificial layers to ‘de-identify’ them.
IN LIGHT OF RECENT UNFORSEEN EVENTS LINKING TO COVID-19, WE REGRET THAT THE 2020 BUTOHOUT! SEASON HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EVERYONE’S SAFETY AND SANITY. WE HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT US AS NEXT SEASON.
Unwoman by The Rabble 15–28 November 2019 @Substation
Yumi is performing in Unwoman by The Rabble
15–28 November 2019 @Substation
UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.
UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.
Made with THE RABBLE, professional performers and a community ensemble of pregnant performers, UNWOMAN is an invocation of the pregnant body as a plurality of experiences. It is visceral, carnal and an uncompromising piece of feminist theatre horrified by the history and laws attempting to curb bodily autonomy and reproductive rights.
FEATURING / Dana Miltins, Mary Helen Sassman and Yumi Umiumare.
PHOTOGRAPHY / Hero image by Patricio Cassinoni. Production photography by David Paterson, featuring Olwen Fouéré in UNWOMAN Part III, Dublin Fringe, November 2018.
“PERVERSE, REAL, HARROWING AND DEEPLY AFFECTING, THIS IS A UNIVERSAL, UNFORGETTABLE MASTERPIECE OF PERFORMANCE ART. – THE TIMES UK”
Booking
Butoh OUT 2019
ButohOUT! 2019 is a festival to celebrate creative communities in Australia and beyond through the profound performance art medium of Butoh. 4 public workshops and 2 weeks performance season are held at Abbotsford Convent.
Butoh Residential Workshop 6(Fri)-9(Mon) Dec 2019
Butoh Residential Workshop by Yumi Umiumare
Bringing ‘Light’ into Body and Spirit
6(Fri)-9(Mon) December 2019
@Arisaig-In the north of Daylesford(1.5hours from Melbourne)
Butoh Residential Workshop by Yumi Umiumare
Bringing ‘Light’ into Body and Spirit
6(Fri)-9(Mon) December 2019
In the north of Daylesford(1.5hours from Melbourne)
Our annual Butoh residential workshop is moving to the new stunning bush location of Arisaig!
A healing and wellness retreat, Arisaig is 100% off-grid and is located in the heart of Dja Dja Wurrung country on 100 acres of breathtakingly beautiful countryside only 20 minutes North of Daylesford and 20 minutes South of Castlemaine.
Over the 4 days, Yumi will introduce various skills and methods of Butoh, channeling our internal and external creative expression. The stillness and peace of the landscape enables us to explore our deeper and authentic "being" and helps to cleanse our busy thoughts. Through sharing food and gentle conversation, Yumi will lead participants to explore their consciousness of well-being, from breathing and silent walk to some vocal expression and laughter.
Butoh舞踏, originally called Ankoku Butoh 暗黒舞踏(Dance of Darkness), was conceived in Japan during the late 50’s and early 60’s during the social turmoil after the war and sought to find an expression through dance. Rather than aspiring to an aesthetic ideal, the dance attempts to expose the joys and sorrows of life, exploring the most fundamental elements of physical and psychological existence. Yumi is renown for combining Butoh (the darkness) with lightness and a sense of humour to embrace a wholistic humanity.
Where: Arisaig in Yandoit (1.5hours from Melbourne)
When: 6(Fri)-9(Mon) December 2019
Cost : $380/350(Vegetarian meals are included)
Accommodation: Participants will be camping amongst the beauty of the bush to allow for a deeper connection to Mother Earth. There are limited cabins available for at a higher rate for those wishing more comfort. Places are limited so book your spot now!"
THE WORKSHOP IS OPEN TO ALL LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE AND ARTISTIC DISCIPLINARY.
A LIMITED NUMBER IS AVAILABLE!
PLANNED SCHEDULE
(subject to be changed)
FRIDAY 6 DEC
By 5pm Arriving, settle in, setting up tent etc
Dinner
Session 1 (Gathering)
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SATURDAY 7 DEC
Silent Walk and exercise
Breakfast
Session2
Lunch
Session 3
Dinner
Session 4 (Gathering)
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SUNDAY 8 DEC
Silent Walk and exercise
Breakfast
Session5
Lunch
Session 6
Dinner
Performance
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MONDAY 9 DEC
Breakfast
Gathering, debrief and packing
10:30am Departure
Photo by Vikk Shayen
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.
DasSHOKU TeaParTEA! will be Yumi’s new full-length stage work. 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 early1600. The work channels the original world of Kabuki, which originally meant ‘bent’ or ‘out of the ordinary’, as well as irregular and asymmetrical aesthetics of classic Japanese tea ceremony.
The first stage of creative development was completed in June 2019, and the second stage development was in Jan/Feb 2020.
The work will take place in a richly visual world created by The Sisters Hayes (set & costume) and Jenny Hector (lighting), with sound design and original score by Dan West. Yumi’s magnetic physical performance is accompanied by an outstanding team of performers- Willow J Conway (Ms Burlesque 2016/17), Gregory Lorenzutti (Brazilian samba & contemporary) and Harrison Hall (cutting edge contemporary dancer). Dramaturgy is by leading theatre maker and performer, Maude Davey.
DasSHOKU Tea ParTEA! will be realised as a 75min tea ceremony/party, including actual Japanese tea ceremony with audience interaction. Short segment of varying rituals with dance, text, and song will unfold through the visually morphing set designs.
CREATIVE TEAM
Creator/director/performer: Yumi Umiumare
Co-creator/performers:
Willow J Conway, Gregory Lorenzutti, Harrison Hall,
Dramaturg: Maude Davey
Set and Costume Design: The Sisters Hayes
Lighting Design : Jenny Hector
Sound design : Dan West
Producer: Kath Papas Productions
See more Dance Work
CuriosiTEA @ the OzAsia Festival2019
As a durational contemporary ritual, Yumi serves many bowls of CuriosiTEA to the general public, artists and tourists, to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions.
CuriosiTEA 26(Sat) Oct 2019
1-4pm @ Lucky Dumpling Market, Riverbank Lawns
As a durational contemporary ritual, Yumi serves many bowls of CuriosiTEA to the general public, artists and tourists, to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions.
Visitors are invited to absorb the simple rituals of tea ceremony in silence and share conversations and interactions in the open air. The deep sense of presence and silence initially afforded by the space will facilitate time to pause and reflect, counterbalancing noise and distraction to create a unique space through public interaction.
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
A special collaboration between a visual artist Dorota Mytych and Yumi Umiumare
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
Un-Certain TEA@Studio Luma, Krakow Poland
by DOROTA MYTCH & YUMI UMIUMARE
25 SEP 2019
“There is nothing certain but the uncertain” (proverb)
“Pewne jest tylko to, że ma nic pewnego” (przysłowie)
This was a special collaboration between POLISH VISUAL ARTIST DOROTA MYTCH
& Japanese Australian performance artist YUMI UMIUMARE.
Dorota and Yumi had created a participatory performance Space where Audience were invited to have a bowl of tea.
while being a part of the ritual of tea ceremony, they were also experiencing the ephemeral images through video projection- Uncanny Others .
Uncanny Others consists of two archival images of war and one family photo from Mytych’s childhood. They are accurately drawn using tea leaves and coffee grounds and filmed as still images which later disintegrate.
Video Installation Uncanny Others by Dorota Mytych
Performance PopUp Tearoom by Yumi Umiumare
Music
PopUp Tearoom Series by Dan West
Requiem for My Friend by Zbigniew Preisner
Góralska pieśń ludowa
Specjalne podziękowania dla
Photo by
Dominik Papai and Nic Bartlett
OBOK zaprasza na instalację performatywną Yumi Umiumare i Doroty Mytych zatytuowaną.
Un-cetainTEA to współczesny rytuał-performans łączący japońską ceremonię parzenia herbaty z działaniami artystycznymi.
Publiczność zostanie zaproszona do wypicia czarki zielonej herbaty, a podczas rytuału odbędzie się projekcja video efemerycznego obrazu usypanego z liści herbaty.
Będzie to "durational performance” trwający 1 godzinę - można przyjść w dowolnym momencie i zostać krócej lub dłużej. Zapraszamy!
Środa, 25 września 2019, godzina 19:00
Studio Luma
Ślusarska 9, 30-702 Kraków
Super-NaturalTEA @ Warsaw, Poland Sep 2019
Super-NaturaliTEA in Warsaw September 2019
Performance by Yumi Umiumare and, Adam Sōmu Wojciński, Teatr Limen Butoh: Sylwia Hanff, Marzena Brzezinska, Magdalena Jakubów and Anna Sulejewicz (guest) and Akitsu Orii (flute) during the International Day of Peace. It was really super-naturaliTEA! Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Super-NaturallTEA
@, the Służewski Culture Center, Warsaw, Poland September 2019
2-hour durational performance.
Super-NaturaliTEA - PopUp Tearoom Series
Performance by
Yumi Umiumare with the participation
Adam Sōmu Wojciński and Akitsu Orii(Flute)
the Limen Butoh Theater
Sylwia Hanff
Magdalena Jakubów
Marzena Brzezińksa
Anna Sulejewicz (guest).
PopUp Tearoom series offers various experiences through the rituals of tea ceremonies, installation and performances. Audience are invited to sit and have a bowl of green tea and pop-up performances will be happening during the rituals. The multiple performances will unfold over the tea ceremonies for audience to partake a bowl of Super-NaturaliTEA, pause& reflect and to be in the surreal dream-like performances.
Supernatural in dictionary : The caused by forces or the things that cannot be explained by science
The performance took place as part of the International Day of Peace under the auspices of the United Nations. The event is organized by the Heiwa Foundation, the Urasenke Sunshinkai Tea Road Association, the Umemi Foundation in cooperation with the Warsaw Mokotów District Office, the Japanese Embassy, the Służewski Culture Center, and the UN Information Center in Warsaw
Pictures by Krzysztof Stacha
Butoh and Tea in Águeda, Portugal Sep 2019
Yumi is running workshop in Portugal and Poland, presenting her PopUp Tearoom Series in Agueda, Portugal 13 September and Warsaw. Poland 21 September 2019.
Butoh and Tea in Europe- workshop and performances
10-13 Sep 2019 Workshop and performance in Portugal
@Casa de cha parque municipal alta vila, Águeda
Hosted by AgitaLab LINK
Yumi has got an opportunity of the artist in residency at Casa de in the Alta Vila Park, Águeda, is one of the projects of the Association Improvise and Organize annually supported by the Municipality of Agueda.
The Residence was offered artists several creative spaces and presentation opportunities to an audience, in exchange for the participation in events involving the local community, such as workshops and open studio.
LiNK: ALTA VILA HOUSE PARK_IVV_TEA ROOM
UnpredictabiliTEA @Bochum, Germany Sep 2019
PopUp Tearoom Series - UnpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
1 Sep 2020
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
PopUp Tearoom Series - unpredictabiliTEA
Special One night event inside of the airplane installation
with performance by local artists- Christian, Lila,Eva, Lukas, Walther and Rosi
1 Sep 2020
at Jahrhunderthall.
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum Germany
An der Jahrhunderthalle 1
D-44793 Bochum
Butoh Workshop in Bochum, Germany 28 Aug- 1Sep 2019
Yumi is running a Butoh workshop at Bochum, Germany, 28 Aug- 1 Sep 2019
Butoh for Puppeteers
28 (Wed) August to 1(Sun) September
10 am to 4 pm
Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum, Germany
Butoh for Puppeteers
Dates: Wednesday, 28th August to Sunday, 1st of September
10 am to 4 pm
Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum, Germany
240€ (200€ for students)
Facilitated by an acclaimed Japanese Australian Butoh dancer and choreographer Yumi Umiumare, this workshop will introduce various Butoh philosophies, including
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 Memoryand Poetry
型/面 Form and Mask
摸写/反復 Copy and Repetition
想像/創造 Imagination to Creation
Yumi leads workshops to stimulate and uncover participants’ own unique and authentic movements, working through objects, images, narrative and abstraction. Unfolding the expression of ‘laughter’ in different contexts, participants have the opportunity to create sequences, emerging from their personal poetry and movements using narrative, metaphor and rituals.
The word for laughter in Japanese, warau 笑い comes from the verb wareru 割れる – to break, crack or split.
Unexpected Laughter can open up our daily corsage – and a ritual for a common transformation can start.
We are going to work in an industrial space, so please be prepared to protect your against cold.
Simple and delicious vegetarian/vegan foods are prepared for 6 € per day.
The class will be hold in English.
The workshop is open to all levels of experience.
About Yumi
Organised by Sara Hasenbrink
INTERNET: www.hasenbrink.org
TeL: 3232634
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(in German)
utho für Puppenspieler mit YUMI UMUIMARE
Das japanische Wort für Lachen 笑い WARAU entstammt dem Verb wareru 割れる – übersetzt ins Deutsche: AUFBRECHEN AUFPLATZEN
An vier Tagen im August wird in der Zeit von 10 bis 16 Uhr in dern Rottstraßen Kunsthallen die eskalative Wirkung des Lachens und Körperdeformationen durch zeitgenössischen japanischen Tanz erprobt.
Nicht bloß die dunkle Seite des Butoh, sondern gerade die unerwartet helle und grelle wird uns beschäftigt halten.
Kommt und laßt es krachen!
Die Unterrichtssprache ist Englisch.
Wir werden in einem ehemaligen Industriegebäude arbeiten, es gibt zwar einen
Holzboden - warme Kleidung kann zuweilen dennoch von Nöten sein.
Es gibt die Möglichkeit ein einfaches vegetarisches oder veganes Mittagsessen gegen 6€ vor Ort zu bekommen. Falls das gewünscht wird, bitten wir, dies bei der Anmeldung direkt mitanzugeben.
Zeit: 28 August bis 01. September 2019 von 10 bis 16 Uhr (Pause von 12:30 bis 13:30)
Ort: Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum
Preise: 240€ Normalzahlende 200€ Studierende
About YUMI
(photo from PopUp Tearoom Series, photo by Jodie Hutchinson)
Butoh weekend workshop- Unleash the Unknown
When: 13 (Sat)14(Sun) July 2019@10am-5pm
Where: TRELOARLAND studio: 87a Albert street Brunswick
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their familiar and unfamiliar elements of physical and spatial expressions through the unique philosophy of Butoh and beyond. Participants are encourage to dive into their ‘unknown’ territories for embracing the joyful moments of ‘unleashing’
Photo by Lukas Penny, weekend workshop ButohOUT!2019
When: 13 (Sat) and 14(Sun) July 2019@10am-5pm
Where: TRELOARLAND studio: 87a Albert street Brunswick
Price: $200/180 (Special winter price!!)
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their familiar and unfamiliar elements of physical and spatial expressions through the unique philosophy of Butoh and beyond.
Participants are encourage to dive into their ‘unknown’ territories for embracing the joyful moments of ‘unleashing’
The focal points in this workshop are;
在り方（Arikata)：Body presence- suspension and gravity
間（Ma)：Spatial exploration- space in between and active pause
溜（Tame): Accumulation, Isolation, Sensation
笑（Warai): Laugh till something crack open
生け捕り(Ikedori)：Catching ‘live’ and ‘row’ moments
想像/創造(Souzou)：Inspiration->Imagination->Creation