心の眼
Other Ways Of Seeing
Leave the certainty of modernity behind and enter the wilderness inside you as we dive into the world of Japanese Butoh and new forms of experiential art making.
@ Arisaig Wellness Retreat, Yandoit, VIC, Australia
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.
またまた９月、日本に上陸します！！
今回は神奈川県・藤野にて、豊かな里山の自然に抱かれながらの、濃密な１泊２日の合宿ワークショップ。
（リンクはコメント欄です）
早割は７月１５日（水）まで！
This time I'll be in the beautiful country landscape of Fujino, Kanagawa, for an intensive two-day, one-night workshop retreat.Early bird closes Wednesday, 15 July.
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.
FREE EVENT: Watch what happens when a group of dancers runs into a pile of compost in Break Down.
Blending contemporary dance and Butoh, the Japanese "dance of darkness," these performers remind us that every ending can lead to a new beginning. Read more: Melbourne Fringe Festival
Thursday 15 October, 6pm
Friday 16 October, 6pm
Saturday 17 October, 4pm
心の眼
Other Ways Of Seeing
Leave the certainty of modernity behind and enter the wilderness inside you as we dive into the world of Japanese Butoh and new forms of experiential art making.
@ Arisaig Wellness Retreat, Yandoit, VIC, Australia
Workshop in Japan!
昨年好評を博した舞踏合宿＠岩手太陽舎に続き
今年は神奈川県藤野にて、豊かな里山の自然に触れながら
短く濃い１泊２日の合宿を行うことになりました。
今回は、世界を駆け回るゆみ・うみうまれが、ここ数年取り組んでいるテーマ「番狂わせ」 OUT OF ORDER！です。
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Butoh Residential Workshop by Yumi Umiumare in Fujino.
September 18 (Fri) – 19 (Sat), 2026
- Sept 18: Meet at 12:00 at Fujino Station
- Sept 19: Dismissal at 16:30
Fujino Art House (Genjyutsu No Ie) 4819 Makino, Midori-ku, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture 252-0186
All Welcome!
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 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
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.
またまた９月、日本に上陸します！！
今回は神奈川県・藤野にて、豊かな里山の自然に抱かれながらの、濃密な１泊２日の合宿ワークショップ。
（リンクはコメント欄です）
早割は７月１５日（水）まで！
This time I'll be in the beautiful country landscape of Fujino, Kanagawa, for an intensive two-day, one-night workshop retreat.Early bird closes Wednesday, 15 July.
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 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.
「誰でもダンス」ワークショップ＠宝塚
‘Dance For Everyone’ Workshop in Takarazuka city in Japan
2026年5月9日(土)14:00～16:30
会場 宝塚「ソリオ2」 4階（JR/阪急宝塚駅下車すぐ）
9(Sat) May 2026 ＠SORIO Takarazuka
写真: Vikk Shayen
GREEN ROOM AWARD WINNER
OUTSTANDING Production Design!!
ButohBAR番狂わせOUT of ORDER II
Congratulations to all of us for making it happen!! Powerhouse team of creativity!
Photo: by Vikk Shayen
WEEKLY WORKSHOPS IN 2026
★ Weekly Workshop - Butoh Training ★
(Tue) 10 Feb 2026 to (Tue) 17 March 2026
Every Tuesday 6pm-9pm
@ St Marys Anglican Church Hall, North Melbourne
Photo: by Takahiro Kitagawa
OVe-Naxx and I will be performing at ABSORBED Festival in Melbourne on this Sunday 3:15pm at Miscellania 2/401 Swanston St Melbourne
The whole event will be on this 6, 7, 8 March 2026 (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) so check it out!
The poster art work @dylanmartorelll
Photography / videography @tmhdy
Design by @w__h____
WORKSHOPS IN 2026
★ Performance Making Workshop ★
(Fri) 27, (Sat) 28 Feb, (Sun) 1 March 2026
@ Dancehouse, North Carlton
Photo: by Vikk Shayen
Yumi will be performing in 月を見る夜 Moongazing in February 2026 at La Mama Theatre.
月を見る夜 Moongazing was previously developed as part of Antipodes Theatre Company's 2025 Winter Lab and received a 2025 La Mama Residency. This project is supported by the City of Melbourne Arts Grants, the Hansen Little Foundation and VCA Foundation, and The Ian Potter Cultural Trust. Book Here →
BUTOH RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP by YUMI UMIUMARE
4 (THU) ~ 7 (SUN) DEC 2025
@ Arisaig Wellness Retreat, Yandoit
Step into the mystery of Butoh, Japan’s subversive dance form, through 4 days of movement, ritual, and transformation!
FREE EVENT: Watch what happens when a group of dancers runs into a pile of compost in Break Down.
Blending contemporary dance and Butoh, the Japanese "dance of darkness," these performers remind us that every ending can lead to a new beginning. Read more: Melbourne Fringe Festival
Thursday 15 October, 6pm
Friday 16 October, 6pm
Saturday 17 October, 4pm
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!
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!
22 (Sun) Dec 2024
At Nara Centennial Hall 18:00 start (17:00 door opens)
Yumi has great opportunity of choreographing and performing at the annual event of the Tenri University Dance Club, Nara Japan, renowned for winning numerous awards due to the high quality and creativity of their dance.Yumi has been staying in Nara for 2 weeks in December, to create and perform a piece, collaborating with 22 dancers and 18 Gagaku musicians to present it on the grand stage of Centennial Hall in front of an audience of 1,500!!
I've become puffy 'mother earth', surreally dancing (digitally) in this project in Adelaide. Fill The Earth 11 - 14 JUL 2024. Go and check it, if you are near by!
Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
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.
Yumi was one of the 5 choreographers of the 5 days performance season of PIECES FOR SMALL SPACES at Lucy Guerin Inc, 13-17 Dec 2017.
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
A solo dance work influenced from the personal experience from Hanshin Earthquake in 1996.The work was devised as prayer for the event. Directed and Performed by Yumi Umiumare. Stage & Set design Anthony Pelchen.
Sakasama: the reverse world. The two worlds of Life and Death are described as two shores; one is ‘the near shore’ (the world of the living), and the other is ‘the far shore’ (the world of after-death). A river flows between them. ‘The far shore’ is a reversed world: it is the reverse of the world of the living and everything is upside down.
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).