Special Weekend Workshop in Melbourne
27(Fri)-29(Sun) June 2025
@Dancehouse

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.

Yumi is running online Butoh sessions - Unlocking our InnerBeast! during Melbourne’s lockdown times in Aug and possibly extending to September 2021

Special Weekend Workshop in Melbourne
27(Fri)-29(Sun) June 2025
@Dancehouse

Butoh Residential Workshop in Romania
22-30 July 2025
in Transilvania, Romania

Salish Sea Butoh Festival 2025 in USA
16-24 Aug 2025
in Port Townsend, Washington

The Salish Sea Butoh Festival is an annual artistic convergence in Port Townsend, Washington to celebrate and deepen the study of Japanese Butoh and Butoh performance.

Extra special performance Sunday 30 March @ 4pm
@SOL Gallery
Yumi dances with her 87 yo mother the calligrapher!
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ButohBAR Out of Order番狂わせ II
as a part of AsiaTOPA festival, Melbourne
5-9 March 2025
@Abbortsford Convent

This electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.

Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence.

BUTOHOUT! 2025 Performance Season @ Abbotsford Convent, Melbourne

Following the sold-out success of ButohBAR 2023, this electrifying event returns with a new line-up of local and international talent, including Japanese Butoh master Atsushi Takenouchi.

Led by acclaimed Melbourne artist Yumi Umiumare, this new edition of ButohBAR mixes fresh performances and rituals with outdoor spectacles at the iconic Abbotsford Convent, celebrating our beautifully dysfunctional existence.

ButohBAR 番狂わせ OUT of ORDER II thrillingly throws back to a time when Butoh ruled Japan’s nightclubs and strip joints in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Commissioned and presented by Abbotsford Convent and Asia TOPA, Arts Centre Melbourne

ButohOUT! 2025 Workshop Listing

Melbourne

WS #1
Weekly Training: Through Butoh & Beyond
21 Jan - 18 Feb
6-9pm
@ St Mary Anglican Church Hall

WS #2
2-Day Weekend: Visual, Text and Body through Magic of Butoh
8 (Sat) and 9 (Sun) Feb
10am - 4:30 pm
@ LGI studio, North Melbourne

WS #3
2-Day Weekend: Butoh Master Atushi Takenouchi accompany by Hiroko Komiya
1 (Sat) and 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
@Industrial School, Abbotsford Convent

BOOKINGS & PAYMENTS HERE

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!　

Back from Japan — Off To Canberra

Canberra Dance Theatre

[BOOKED OUT!]

Friday 17 to Sunday 19 January 2025
Friday from 6:00pm-9:00pm and Saturday/Sunday from 10:00am-4:00pm

CDT is excited to have made a connection with Butoh Artist Yumi Umiumare, and to announce that Yumi is coming to Canberra next January to offer a weekend workshop at CDT.

ButohOUT! WEEKLY TRAINING

Melbourne
21 Jan - 18 Feb 2025
6pm - 9pm
THROUGH BUTOH and BEYOND
By Yumi Umiumare, Matt Crosby (Suzuki Method) and Willow J Conway (Cabaret)
5 sessions on Tuesdays
@ St Mary Anglican Church, Nth Melb

WEEKEND WORKSHOP

Melbourne
8 (Sat) & 9 (Sun) Feb 2025
10am - 4:30 pm
@Wxyz Studios, North Melb
VISUAL, TEXT AND BODY THROUGH MAGIC OF BUTOH
By Jacqui Stockdale (visual arts), Maude Davey(text), and Yumi Umiumare (Butoh)

SPECIAL WEEKEND WORKSHOP !!

Melbourne
1 (Sat) & 2 (Sun) March
10am-4:30pm
By BUTOH MASTER ATSUSHI accompany by HIROKO KOMIYA
@Abbotsford Convent

Atsushi Takenouchi, a global legend in Butoh based in Italy, is coming to Melbourne to lead a special weekend Butoh workshop, accompanied by live music from his long-time collaborator, Hiroko Komiya.

He will introduce the classic aspects of Butoh through his unique Jinen Butoh style. Jinen is an old Japanese word, signifying something larger than nature itself. In some Western thought, ‘Man’ exists above ‘Nature,’ with a separation between Nature, Man, and God. In Jinen, however, all things are interconnected—within each life resides a god.

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!!

Workshop 9 (Sat) November 2024 10:00-16:00
@Studio Sun and Moon in Yotsuya 9500 yen

Performance  9 (Sat) Nov 2024 @19:00
(Owari contains OWARI終わり: finishing, and WARU割るcrack open, and 悪naughty）

Performance 16 (Fri) Nov 2024
followed by:
Workshop  17 (Sat) Nov 2024
@BUTOHSFERA, Fundacja Pompka, Warsaw, Poland 

BUTOH KAI 6 begins with the performance "Tea Trance" by the Japanese dancer YUMI UMIUMARE living in Australia. The day before the workshops, on November 16, you will be able to see it free of charge thanks to funding from the Mokotów District Office/Warsaw Railway Station). Sunday, November 17, we encourage you to take part in workshops.