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!

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.

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.

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!

3.5 weeks in Europe, 2 weeks in America, 2 weeks in Western expedition just finished!! 12 plane rides in 7 weeks or so today since I left Melbourne!

Started with a shamanism training camp in Iwate, followed by a dance lab camp in Romania, workshops in England, travelling around Slovakia and Poland, and finally the Salish Sea Butoh Festival near Seattle, USA.

Dancing everywhere
Make tea everywhere
I could feel the Spirit in the woods, rivers and oceans everywhere!

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.

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

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!

Special Weekend Workshop in Melbourne
27(Fri)-29(Sun) June 2025 (+ an interactive lecture on Friday 27 June ‘What is Butoh?’) @Dancehouse

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.

Purchase Tickets Here →

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)