Pop-Up Wonders@Kinosaki
Two-week residency at Kinosaki International Arts Centre, with visual artis Riza Manalo and invited local and international artists, to explore the metaphor of reflection in relation to nature, personal rituals, symbolic objects and the production of ephemeral spaces. ‘Pop-up Wonders’ has examined and responded to the history of Kinosaki’s natural healing waters, man-made tourist attractions and visitors social activities.The pop up mobile space explored the relationship of objects to movement, new media technology, personal narratives and cultural experiences.
Performance by Riza Manalo and Yumi Umiumare, Adam Hatsu-Shin, Kyoko Hirobe
Photo by Ivan Kovac, Yuichiro Yoshida(Kinosaki International Arts Centre), Igaki Photo Studio
Butoh residential workshop 2-5 May 2015
On the Wimmera River, 15kms West of HorshamLead By Yumi Umiumare and locally based visual artist 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-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 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.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
$350/320 (Vegetarian meals included) Early Bird Special by 17 April $330/300
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.
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.
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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.
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
