CreativiTEA
PopUpTearoom @ Multicultural Art Victoria CreativeTEA The second experimental process of PopUpTearoom series, continuing to collaborate with a visual artist Riza Manalo. Small number of audience mainly from arts industries were invited to experience the tearoom in an atypical office setting of Multicultural Arts Victoria, to share simple dialogue about ‘creativity’.
Some quotes from the participants
“..a transitional experience- crossing boundaries- shifting from modern world of stress, panic…The simple structure but a haven of tranquility in the ‘battlefield’ of the office .”
“My chest is light and my breath affected I’ve just been in a magic world-like when I was small and reality was transformed in a game, in church, in pictures, in art, and it was magical and profound and I wanted to live there. I have been inside an ancient world, where every tiny detail matters, and there is a relationship with beauty in the smallest things. This is deeply moving. When she tapped the bowl twice, tears came. I can’t say why-because when things really matter, when there is gentleness and respect and beauty in little things, something opens up- perhaps meaning. A place to stop and reflect- away from the intense”tea” of everyday life.”
“…It became very clear that there was no difference between the surreal-ness surrealiTEA of the created world outside in the office and the created world in the chashitsu(tearoom). The meditation is: which one tastes like the rapture of being alive.”
Photo by NObu
AuthenticiTEA/DeformiTEA
PopUpTearoom @ Multicultural Arts Victoria AuthenticiTEA/DeformiTEA
Through the fellowship from Australia Council, this was the first experimental process of Yumi's pop-up tearoom series, collaborating with a visual artist Riza Manalo. The audiences were invited to experience tearoom in an atypical office setting of Multicultural Arts Victoria.
Inspired by the Japanese notion of ‘ma’ (space) and rituals of tea ceremony, visitors are invited to harness the simple rituals in silence and embrace deeper narratives in an atypical office setting.
Photo by Riza Manalo and Yumi Umiumare
ダッショク・シェイク！日本ツアー
ゆみうみうまれ、大阪の劇団ガンボ＆メルボルンアーティスト共演による舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」（脱・SHOKU(色)シェイク！）が、 ２０１４年１２月、大阪、東京への公演ツアー決定！
ゆみうみうまれ、大阪の劇団ガンボ＆メルボルンアーティスト共演による舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」（脱・SHOKU(色)シェイク！）が、 ２０１４年１２月、大阪、東京への公演ツアー決定！
東京公演 Tokyo12月19日（金）20：00開演（19：00開場） 会場：SARAVAH 東京（サラヴァ東京） 東京都渋谷区松濤1丁目29-1 クロスロードビル B1 ※JR山手線渋谷駅より徒歩10分 料金[１ドリンク付]：前売・当日／3,500円 チケット予約：SARAVAH 東京
大阪公演 Osaka12月23日（火祝）15:00開演（14：30開場） 会場：西天満ライブハウスGANZ toi,toi,toi（ガンツ トイ トイ トイ） 大阪市北区西天満5-13-7近江ビルB1 ※JR東西線大阪天満宮駅／地下鉄南森町駅1番出口より徒歩8分 泉の広場M-14左出口より徒歩10分 チケット予約：06-6366-5515 (GANZ toi,toi,toi) gumbo@maia.eonet.ne.jp
<大阪追加公演 ・決定！！> ※23日と会場が異なります。ご注意ください！ 12月24日（水）19:30開演（19:00開場） 会場：ライブハウス大阪KANDYLION（キャンディライオン）チケット予約: gumbo@maia.eonet.ne.jp
舞踏キャバレエ「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」は、２０１２年メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバルでプレミアを 迎えた作品で、その２週間公演は満員御礼、また昨年、ダーウィン国際フェスティバルにも招聘され、オーストラリア・グリーンルーム賞 （INNOVATION:革新的な作品）と、メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバル賞を受賞した。
「ショックと癒しがクロスする」という謳い文句で、うみうまれを中心に公演を重ねてきた「脱・SHOKU(色)」舞踏キャバレエシリーズは、１９９９年か ら展開され、今作「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」は、その第４作目。観客をある時は混乱に、またある時は爆笑と感涙へと導いてゆく、混沌と調和の同居したその舞台創りには定評があり、過去 のシリーズ作品、「DasSHOKU Cultivation!」(劇団GUMBOとの共演、２００３年)は大阪サンホールにて、また「DasSHOKU HORA!」（２００６年）はシドニーオペラハウスでも大好評を博した。暗黒舞踏の抽象の世界に、神話的やおとぎ話、底抜けに明るく風刺の効いたキャバレ エとをミックスさせた「舞踏キャバレエ」スタイルには、オーストラリでも高い評価を受けている。
今作品「DasSHOKU SHAKE!」では、震災を通して考えさせられた人間の「ゆれ」「ぶれ」「ずれ」「はぐれ」が深いテーマになっている。揺れる感覚、ぶれる思考、はぐれる アイデンティティー、ずれるコミュニケーション、そして「シェイク」した大地から喚起された様々な思いを、色彩豊かなキャラクター達が、踊り、演劇、歌や 語りを通して問いかけてゆく。
オーストラリアで活躍するうみうまれの舞踏と、大阪パワー炸裂、劇団GUMBO抱腹絶倒のコメディに、多彩なるオーストラリア人のパフォーマンスが加わり、その絶妙なバランスが激発する文字通りの日豪合作狂想劇。
「自分の心を揺らす」（ヤイコシラムスイェ）とはアイヌの言葉で「考える」と解釈されるようで、この作品を通し、演者、観客共、いかに自分達の心をシェイク（揺らして）ゆけるかが、作品の深いテーマとなっている。
批評抜粋
“ビジュアル、コンセプト共に豊かなこの作品は、「クレマスター」（マシュー・バーニーによる独特なスタイルの映像作品）より も面白い。（中略）うみうまれは私たちの住むこの街に、途方もない、ひどく面白い、全く素晴らしい舞台を持ってきてくれた。ハローキティのおしめをする特 大の赤子、唄ううんこ頭にファースト・フードの踊り。何が一番混乱したかと言えば、何故この作品がメルボルン国際フェスティバルの目玉商品になっていない かということであった。” The Age (オーストラリア有力新聞)
“想像を絶するような見た目に抽象的な動き、素晴らしいコスチュームに騒々しい音楽、そして、死と
笑いを共に誘発するかのような不快な絵画的イメージに感嘆する” Herald Sun (メルボルン新聞)
“この作品のメッセージ性には意味深く差し迫ってくるものがある。混沌とした私たちの存在そのものに対する静かな沈思黙想のようなものを呼び覚ませる。” The Peril Magazine (メルボルン雑誌)
公演記録
Time
Place
2013年
ダーウィンフェスティバル
The Amphitheatre, George’s Green
2012年
メルボルン・フリンジフェスティバル
２週間公演 ＠fortyfivedownstairs
DasSHOKU SHAKE! tours to JAPAN!
The Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza, DasSHOKU SHAKE! is now taking off to the land of the Rising Sun where they’ll be re-united with the explosive Japanese company Theatre Gumbo! The tour will be taking place in December2014 with performances in Tokyo, Osaka and also conducting workshops at Minami Sanriku in Miyagi Prefecture, an area greatly affected by the earthquake and Tsunami in 2011.
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Tour to Japan in December 2014
19(Fri) Dec 2014 at Saravah Tokyo 8pm start (7pm open) Booking: Saravah Tokyo 03-6427-8886 ※Mon Tue Thur Friday (no public holiday) 14:00～18:00
23(Tue) Dec 2014 at Nishi Tenman LiveHouse GANZ toi toi toi 3pm start (2.30pm open) Public holiday Booking and Enquiry in Englsih
24(Wed) Dec 2014 X'mas Eve Special
at Livehouse Osaka KANDYLION, 3-5-14 Nakazaki Kita-ku Osaka 7.30start(7pm open) Booking and Enquiry in Englsih
Winner of the Green Room Award for Innovation and Melbourne Fringe Festival Award, DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the infamous DasSHOKU repertoire, the unique culture-crushing dementia that has been recognised by audiences in sell-out seasons around the world since 1999. Inspired by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan in 2011, DasSHOKU SHAKE!, Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza bursts out of the earth to assault the senses.
ZeroZero and Hipbones Sticking Out and in Melbourne Festival
ZeroZero at Dance TerritoriesTHE SACRED AND THE PROFANE – RITUALS OF NOW Tue 14 & Wed 15 Oct 2014 @DANCEHOUSE
Yumi is in the Hipbones Sticking Out by BighART Fri 17 – Tue 21 Oct 2014 @ Arts Center Melbourne Playhouse
ZeroZero at Dance TerritoriesTHE SACRED AND THE PROFANE – RITUALS OF NOW Tue 14 & Wed 15 Oct 2014 @DANCEHOUSE
Two programs pair works by local and international choreographers in a charged collision of dance, highlighting different approaches to similar subject matter.
‘The Sacred and the Profane’ sees Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare perform their exploration of nothingness, Zero, Zero, alongside a playful work by Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté (Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté) featuring three obsessive coffee drinkers.
Yumi is in the Hipbones Sticking Out
by BighART
Fri 17 – Tue 21 Oct 2014 @ Arts Center Melbourne Playhouse
When 16-year-old Yindjibarndi man John Pat died in a Roebourne lockup in 1983, it was more than a singular tragedy – it was part of a longer story, one that for 150 years had denied Indigenous people in the Pilbara the power to speak.
Hipbone Sticking Out takes us on a dreamlike journey through history: from Greco-Roman myths, tall ships, terra nullius, pearlers, pastoralists, slavery and exotic minerals to the lives of the Pat family in Roebourne – the here and now.
Butoh residential workshop 2-5 May 2014
On the Wimmera River, 15kms West of HorshamLead By Yumi Umiumare with a special guest voice artist from Tokyo, Kyoko Hirobe and locally based visual artist Anthony Pelchen
BUTOH RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP2(Fri)-5(Mon) May 2014 on the Wimmera River, 15kms West of Horsham Lead By Yumi Umiumare with a special guest voice artist from Tokyo, Kyoko Hirobe and locally based visual artist Anthony Pelchen
$350/320 (Vegetarian meals included) Early Bird Special by 17 April $330/300 $330/$300 (Vegetarian meals included)
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. No dance, singing or drawing experience required
YUMI UMIUMARE: Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is the only Japanese Butoh Dancer in Australia and the creator of provocative Butoh Cabaret works. Originally a member of the seminal Butoh Company DaiRakudakan in Tokyo, she moved to Australia and in 1993. Over the last 20 years Yumi’s versatile and distinctive physical theatre works have been seen in the spectrum of dance, theatre and film productions and festivals throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand and South Eastern Asia. Yumi teaches Butoh nationally and internationally. KYOKO HIROBE: Kyoko is a native voice artist from Tokyo, touring Japan with several bands, singing in her deep soulful and powerful voice. In 2011 Kyoko performed with Yumi in Tokyo and joined Butoh residential workshop in Australian in 2012. A psychic healer and numerologist who has worked with over 8000 people in Japan, Kyoko has a love of volcanic mountains and the smell of souls. ANTHONY PELCHEN: As a visual artist working across mediums, Anthony studied at the Victorian College of the Arts and has since presented work in Australia, Japan, Malaysia and Denmark. For over a decade he has periodically collaborated with Yumi Umiumare and Tony Yap and since 2010 has curated the Visual Arts program of the annual Melaka Art & Performance Festival, Malaysia.
Butoh Residential Workshop 13(Fri) -16(Mon) December 2013 舞踏合宿ー歓喜・喚起・換気 KANKI
Butoh Residential Workshop 13(Fri) -16(Mon) December 2013舞踏合宿ー歓喜・喚起・換気 KANKI on the Wimmera River, 15kms West of Horsham Lead By Yumi Umiumare with Anthony Pelchen
Butoh Residential Workshop 13(Fri) -16(Mon) December 2013舞踏合宿ー歓喜・喚起・換気 KANKI
on the Wimmera River, 15kms West of Horsham Lead By Yumi Umiumare with Anthony Pelchen
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, 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 & Focus exercises, breathing methods and creative expression, as well as encourage a deep consciousness of well-being. Body practices and drawing in nature act as powerful counterpoints and as opportunities to filter one into the other, strengthening the links between the external environment and the internal landscape.
Anthony Pelchen, a visual artist, will guide a dynamic session of collective charcoal drawing that taps into this and the overall energetic build-up over the weekend.
*KANKi : Provocation, Delight, Ventilation in Japanese *No dance, singing or drawing experience is required
$350/320 (Vegetarian meals included) Early Bird Special by 30 Nov $330/300
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.
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.
DasSHOKU SHAKE! has received GREEN ROOM AWARD
Photo by Vikk Shayen
DasSHOKU SHAKE! has received GREEN ROOM AWARD!
DasSHOKU SHAKE! has received GREEN ROOM AWARD for INNOVATION in Cabaret category, along side of Melbourne Fringe Festival Award, Innovation in Cultural Diversity Practice.
ZeroZero in Bogata, Columbia
ZeroZero at TEATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia18(Fri) and 19(Sat) October 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Teatro Estudio Price: 30 mil pesos
ZeroZero at TEATRO MAYOR, Bogata, Columbia18(Fri) and 19(Sat) October 2013 at 8:00 p.m. Teatro Estudio Price: 30 mil pesos
ZeroZero is a new dance work by Tony Yap, Yumi Umiumare and Matthew Gingold, exploring the spaces between fullness and emptiness, visibility and invisibility. Yap and Umiumare's ancient cultural and spiritual traditions are combined with Gingold’s bleeding edge explorations of high and low technologies. From the immediacy and simplicity of the human body lit by candles and incense, to the use of the latest technology, ZeroZero will transport the viewer with its immersive environment and evocative and trance¬like physical explorations.
'...strong, powerful and incredibly moving' Arts Hub on ZeroZero at 'Return to Sender', Performance Space, November 2011
DasSHOKU SHAKE! in Darwin Festival
DasSHOKU SHAKE!Yumi Umiumare & Theatre Group GUMBO
Get ready to be shaken and stirred!
Photo by Vikk Shayen
DasSHOKU SHAKE! Yumi Umiumare & Theatre Group GUMBO
Get ready to be shaken and stirred!
Created by butoh punkess Yumi Umiumare, Japan’s legendary Theatre Group GUMBO and three of Melbourne’s shock-toy acolytes (known as the DasSHOKU triangle) this is one psychedelic, cross-cultural, lost-in-translation, emo shake-up. DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award-winning DasSHOKU repertoire, the unique culture-crushing dementia that has been recognised by audiences in sell-out seasons around the world since 1999. Inspired by the devastating earthquake and tsunami that rocked Japan in 2011, this latest chapter bursts out of the earth to assault the senses. In it Umiumareʼs punk ingénue (a character that wouldn’t be out of place in the ‘60s cult series Monkey) joins a troupe of wanderers traversing the world and experiencing its shaky ground as a series of hell-on-earth fantasies. On the way there’s music, movement, merriment and just a touch of madness.
Recent Green Room Award winner for Innovation in Cabaret, DasSHOKU SHAKE! is a timeless myth told with a healthy mix of black satire GUMBO’s trademark bewildering absurdist humour. It fuses the intensity of butoh with all the entertainment of great cabaret for a weird and wonderful Festival experience from an incredible team of performers.
" It is a riot… black humour, absurd juxtapositions and occasional poignancy with skills and thrills.” Adelaide Advertiser
"Watching Umiumare dance butoh is like watching a stainless steel mannequin ram a knife into a toaster." Vibewire Artistic Director & Choreographer Yumi Umiumare Co-Director KayoTamura
Performers Yumi Umiumare, Helen Smith, Willow J, Harrison Hall, Kayo Tamura, Nono Miyasaka & Ryo Nishihara Dramaturgy Matt Crosby Set Design Ellen Strasser Sound Design Dan West Costume Design Kiki Ando & Theatre Group GUMBO Original Lighting Design Tom Willis Additional Lighting Design for Darwin Tony Moore Photography Vikk Shayen (Australia)& Masami Kikuchi (Japan)
HIPBONE STICKING OUT World Premier Season
3-6 July at Canberra TheatrePERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Jada Alberts, Simon Gleeson, Trevor Jamieson, Derik Lynch, Lex Marinos, Natalie O’Donnell, Yumi Umiumare and others from the Roebourne Community.
3-6 July at Canberra Theatre
PERFORMANCE ENSEMBLE Jada Alberts, Simon Gleeson, Trevor Jamieson, Derik Lynch, Lex Marinos, Natalie O’Donnell, Yumi Umiumare and others from the Roebourne Community.
CREDITS: Writer/Director Scott Rankin Set Design Genevieve Dugard Costume Tess Schofield Musical Director John Rodgers Sound Design Jeremy Silver Foley Sound Artist David Hewitt Choreography Yumi Umiumare Lighting Design Nicholas Higgins Video Benjamin Ducroz Creative Producer Debra Myers Associate Producer Elspeth Blunt Production Manager Neil Fisher
Hipbone Sticking Out spins the globe upside down and sets its teeth rattling to the tune of The Clash, The Stranglers, Britney Spears, sea shanties and traditional songs of the Pilbara in glorious six part harmony. Clothed in hi-viz work wear and set against the backdrop of Murujuga – the world’s largest outdoor rock art gallery - a stellar cast creates a tour de force story beginning in 1602 that places the Pilbara at the centre of world history.
In the town of Roebourne a young man, John Pat, scuffles with police, hits his head on the footpath and is left in a police lockup. He finds himself travelling through time from the beginning, meeting Greco/Roman Gods, tracing the spice routes, the exploration of the Indian Ocean, the paintings of Vermeer, the pop music of 1800’s, the coming of ghost people to Ngarluma country, slavery, pearling, new law, ancient law, and the mining boom of the present. During the performance John Pat’s family hold the truth of this story in their hands as witnesses. Like all Big hART’s pieces it will make you laugh and cry and touch you with its candid authenticity.
Created with the community of Roebourne by Scott Rankin and Big hART Hipbone is delivered by a dream cast including Trevor Jamieson (Pitjantjatjara), Derik Lynch (Yankunytjatjara), Lex Marinos (Greece/Wagga Wagga), Simon Gleeson (Scotland) Natalie O’Donnell (United Kingdom) and Jada Alberts (Yanyuwa/Larrakia). The performance combines rich layered vocal harmonies, outrageous comic makeovers, messed up ensemble movement, striking digital imagery, sweeping design and freestyle costuming to create a mesmerising cosmopolitan work from the edge of the world.
Hipbone is produced by Big hART, who over the last two years has brought Canberra audiences to their feet with Namatjira and Ngapartji Ngapartji. Now the third work in this trilogy has its world premiere in Canberra as part of Big hART’s residency at the Canberra Theatre Centre.
Hipbone forms part of the larger Yijala Yala Project which is supported and encouraged by cultural leaders and the creative talent of the community in the Pilbara. Woodside Pluto LNG is the principal sponsor of the Yijala Yala Project and Hipbone Sticking Out.
GLORYBOX
Queen Provocateur Moira FINUCANE and the world’s most addictive divas unleash their latest, hot-off-the-press exotic and inimitable Franken-routines and plunge into Paradise.
Dark angels, hair and feathers flying, ecstatic swans, naked circus, disco heaven, transcendent Tokyo, flesh and bone, hearts and music pounding … Paradise. Fresh off the plane from her triumphs in London, Brighton & Paris – Finucane returns with a grab bag of wild new work and a few global favourites.
London’s infamous red hanky stripper URSULA MARTINEZ; circus wild child JESS LOVE; Tokyo Terawatt YUMI UMIUMARE; Parisian dance siren HOLLY DURANT; backroom ballerina LILY PASKAS; bombshell songbird & Circus Oz ringmistress SARAH WARD as she’s never been seen before; and Moira FINUCANE herself, inspired by the museums of Paris, in predatory PARADISE
“reminds us of the inadequacy of simple applause” The Latest UK
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
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.
DasSHOKU SHAKE! 27 September - 7 October, 2012
A Japanese Australian Butoh Cabaret ExtravaganzaBy Yumi Umiumare with Theatre Gumbo & local and international Artists. 27 SEPTEMBER - 7 OCTOBER 2012 "Wild extremes in fearless performance shock, fascinate..." The AGE (DasSHOKU Hora!)
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5.30pm
A Japanese Australian Butoh Cabaret Extravaganza
By Yumi Umiumare with Theatre Gumbo & local and international Artists.
27 September - 7 October 2012
"Wild extremes in fearless performance shock, fascinate..."The AGE (DasSHOKU Hora!)
WHERE & WHEN
fortyfivedownstairs, 45 Flinders Lane Melbourne Wednesday - Saturday 8pm, Sunday 5.30pm $27 Full / $22 Concession $18 Preview (27 Sep) / $18 group of 6 people
Facebook Event
BOOKINGS
www.fortyfivedownstairs.com (03)9662 9966 - Click here to book. www.melbournefringe.com.au (03)9660 9666
ABOUT DASSHOKU SHAKE
Be ready to get lost in this funky cross cultural emo shake up! DasSHOKU SHAKE! is the fourth work in the award winning DasSHOKU repertoire - the unique culture-crushing dementia, which has been recognized by audiences in sell-out seasons nationally and internationally since 1999. Dasshoku means ‘to bleach’.
Butoh Punkess Yumi Umiumare ignites her next infamous DasSHOKU Cabaret, bursting from the shaking earth. Osaka's legendary Theatre Gumbo, international guest artists from Japan plus four of Melbourne’s shock-toy acolytes bring things of darkness out into footlights. Jap-pop and white mysticism assault Buddhist Heart sutra! Comic! Bizarre!
Does devastation transform us, cleanse us or bleach us?
Photo by : Vikk Shayen
★★★★ "This is a riot... black humour, absurd juxtapositions and occasional poignancy with skills for thrills."THE ADVERTISER (Theatre GUMBO)
Photo by Masami Kikuchi
PERFORMERS
AUSTRALIA Yumi Umiumare Matt Crosby Helen Smith Willow J Harrison Hall
THEATRE GUMBO Kayo Tamura Kenichi Mabuchi Ryo Nishihara Nono Miyasaka
FROM OSAKA Hiromitsu Oishi Chizuru Misaki (intere-P) Tomomi Nakayama (joli ma coeur) AYA (Osaka Shinsengumi)
PRODUCTION
Co-Director Yumi Umiumare & Kayo Tamura Dramaturgy Matt Crosby Set Design Ellen Strasser Sound Design Dan West Costume Design Kiki Ando and Theatre GUMBO Lighting Design Tom Willis Stage Manager Rita Khayat Front of House Ballerina Masami Sato
Photo & Design Vikk Shayen Photo Masami Kikuchi (Japan)
Photo by : Vikk Shayen
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Photo by Masami Kikuchi
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012 From the shelter of an isolated and timeless existence in the vast desert centre of our country, to a confrontation with the strange new world of non-indigenous Australia, Trevor Jamieson traces his family’s story through the 20th Century.The phrase 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' has no exact Western translation; it loosely translates as 'I give you something, you give me something' and captures the spirit of this generous virtuosic piece of theatre.
Ngapartji Ngapartji at Canberra Theatre 25-28 July 2012
From the shelter of an isolated and timeless existence in the vast desert centre of our country, to a confrontation with the strange new world of non-indigenous Australia, Trevor Jamieson traces his family’s story through the 20th Century.The phrase 'Ngapartji Ngapartji' has no exact Western translation; it loosely translates as 'I give you something, you give me something' and captures the spirit of this generous virtuosic piece of theatre.
With a gentle touch, Trevor invites us into his family’s epic story, sharing this journey through word, song, movement and film of his family’s almost unbelievable encounters with the non-indigenous world. From his extended family’s strong cultural life, their first white contact, missionaries, the urgency of their confrontation with the Cold War, nuclear tests in the Australian desert and his own walk between two cultures today.
Directed by Scott Rankin
CREATOR T revor Jamieson
CAST Trevor Jamieson, Yumi Umiumare, Lex Marinos, Milyika Carroll and Renita Stanley
Solstice Celebration - Winter at Federation Square
You are invited to walk with us through spoken words and illuminated books, into folklore and newly created cultural mythology, warmed by market surrounds. Take one of the hand-made lanterns from the stage and participate in a beautiful lantern dance of a thousand twinkling lights. In Walking Through Words, acclaimed choreographers, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare lead a performance with nine community groups.
Take one of the hand-made lanterns from the stage and participate in a beautiful lantern dance of a thousand twinkling lights.
In Walking Through Words, acclaimed choreographers, Tony Yap and Yumi Umiumare lead a performance with nine community groups. Men from the Afghan community will share letters to the world and their families in the Afghan Men’s Shed and a group of young African women present Unveiling the Veil, where they respond through poetry to public perception about the Hijab. These Are The Projects We Do Together will entertain the kids with torch-led guerilla lighting, so get the family together to celebrate the Melbourne's winter solstice.
Where: Main Square When: Saturday 23 June, 5pm - 8pm Price: Free
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Caravan Burlesque
Dates: Wed, 9 May and Thur ,10, May7:30pm Creative Medium: Performance Creative: Caravan Burlesque
Location: Mesley Hall, Leongatha Shire Region: South Gippsland Shire
Main Contact: Sophie Dixon Phone: 5662 9202
EnTrance Sydney tour PerformanceSpace
‘A mystical collision of butoh and theatre.’ - The Age
‘EnTrance opens heart, body and soul to the transformations that direct the human spirit.’ – Canberra Times
Performance in TOKYO Jan 2012 Earth Dimension Version 1
Shaking. Fluttered Down BY IKKO SUZUKI and YUMI UMIUMARE
12th(Thur) Jan 2012 19:00 OPEN 19:30 START Adult 2500 yen/ Concession 2000yen(drink included) Venue:KEN 4-8-3B102, Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo (access) http://www.kenawazu.com/access.html
Tel&Fax 03-3795-1776 http://www.kenawazu.com
IKKO SUZUKI http://sites.google.com/site/suzukiikko/
土の面〜つちのおもて〜ヴァージョン１ 「揺れ」からこぼれ落ちたもの
鈴木一琥 and ゆみうみうまれ 2012年 １月１２日（木） 一般 2500円（ドリンク付き）／コンセッション ２０００円(＊学生、無職の方) 会場：KEN 4-8-3B102, Taishido, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo 東京都世田谷区太子堂４−８−３B１０２ Tel&Fax 03-3795-1776 http://www.kenawazu.com
距離が「はぐれ」 背景が「ゆれ」 時間が「ぶれ」 方法が「ずれ」 情報が「こぼれ」た。
3.11 を通じて体験した混乱と問いかけを切り口にして 北半球在住鈴木一琥と、南半球在住ゆみうみうまれという マレーシア、マラッカフェスティバルで出会った異色の２人の ダンサーによる踊り、語り、対話と沈黙。 自分達の中に何が揺れたのか 人間が本当に自然の一部であるのならば 自分たちは一体何を失い、何を守るのか
大地の次元ーEarth Dimensionに身をおいたときに 踊りやダンスは一体何を意味するか そして、そんな壮大なテーマに身なんておけるのか？？今回？？
そんな問いかけを、オープンに、閉じないでシェアしておこうというイベントです。