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Tomorrow (Saturday 27th April) from 1-4pm, we are serving 'ProximiTEA' @ Oratory, Abbotsford Convent. 一服差し上げます。是非お越しください〜
ButohBAR performance at a Bar in Fitzroy
Last Full Moon ButohBAR at Izakaya by Tamura, Smith Street, Fitzroy.
The next one will be another full-moon or fool-moon. Stay tuned !!
NEW Workshops 2024
Butoh, Ritual and Spirit workshop series by Yumi Umiumare.
This unique workshop series allows participants to explore the intersection of movement, ritual, and spirituality - fostering a deeper connection to the self, others, and the world around.
Yumi is conducting three workshops, weekly and weekend workshops, and also 3-nights residential workshop introducing her mastery skills of body awareness through Butoh, her ongoing passion for ritual and ceremony through elements of the Japanese Tea Ceremony and her recent focus on exploring Jujutsu 呪術 - a Japanese notion of Shamanism.
Yumi was invited to choreograph for the 19th Annual performance event by Tenri University, Nara, Japan @ Nara Century Hall, 17 Dec 2023
Buried TeaBowl-OKUNI tours to Adelaide, OZAsia Festival.
Buried TeaBowl – OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance piece. It is a fusion of dance, text, and song, underscored by dynamic visual elements, a compelling original musical score, and of course – a tea ceremony.
30March-3 April 2023
@Raven’s Nest -Venus Bay, South Gippsland
Butoh, Drama, Voice with SPIRITS!!
with Special International Guest Artists from JAPAN!
Kayo Tamura and Kyoko Amara
21(Tue) and 28(Tue) March 2023
3 shows ONLY at Dancehouse
Performed by Yumi Umiumare, Kayo Tamura and Kyoko Amara
Installation by Jacqui Stockdale
Sound by Ai Yamamoto
Punk, playful, and exuberant, this is an intimately epic and profanely sacred ritual.
3 special workshop from 18 March- 3 April 2023
This is unique workshop series , exploring movement, text and voice, through 呪術 Jujutsu, Japanese notion of shamanism, translated as ‘Magic’. Yumi Umiumare is facilitating 3 workshop, with international guest artists from Japan, Kayo Tamura (a queen of comedy/shaman in theatre) and Kyoko Amara (clairvoyant/earth voice singer).
Butoh Residential Workshop
9 (Fri)-12 (Mon) December 2022
@Raven’s Nest -Venus Bay, South Gippsland (2 hours from Melbourne)
Buried TeaBowl -OKUNI is an intimate and epic solo performance installation bringing together dance, text, song and tea ceremony with stunning film captured in 2021 during the lockdown.The work is inspired by the Japanese historical female dancer and shaman Okuni, who initiated Kabuki theatre in the early 1600s, which women were banned from performing after these times.
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
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.
Wanna Be a Rabbit? the show by Weave Movement Theatre directed by Yumi Umiumare is postponed till 2022
BUTOH OUT! 2021NEW AB/NORMAL 新しい異常
2 Feb - 23 May 2021
The 5th iteration of ButohOUT!, a collection of events inspired by the dance theatre art-form of Butoh, explores the artistic theme New Ab/Normal during the post-pandemic era with the question: what is normal?
★19(Fri)-21(Sun) March : Weekend workshop
★27(Sat) March : Family, Kids and Senior workshop
★24(Sat)-25(Sun) April : Weekend workshop with Butoh, Voice and Visual Arts
Celebrating its third year, ButohOUT! 2020 offers five workshops and two performance seasons exploring the artistic theme of ‘Primal Colour.’ In earlier expressions of Butoh, dancers typically wore white body paint, believed to 'erase' the performers excessive and artificial layers to ‘de-identify’ them.
IN LIGHT OF RECENT UNFORSEEN EVENTS LINKING TO COVID-19, WE REGRET THAT THE 2020 BUTOHOUT! SEASON HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR EVERYONE’S SAFETY AND SANITY. WE HOPE YOU WILL SUPPORT US AS NEXT SEASON.
Yumi is performing in Unwoman by The Rabble
15–28 November 2019 @Substation
UNWOMAN is an epic and imagistic piece of feminist theatre created in both Ireland and Australia, examining reproductive rights, experiences of pregnancy and bodily autonomy.
Butoh Residential Workshop by Yumi Umiumare
Bringing ‘Light’ into Body and Spirit
6(Fri)-9(Mon) December 2019
@Arisaig-In the north of Daylesford(1.5hours from Melbourne)
As a durational contemporary ritual, Yumi serves many bowls of CuriosiTEA to the general public, artists and tourists, to activate and provoke cultural encounters and personal interactions.
Yumi is running workshop in Portugal and Poland, presenting her PopUp Tearoom Series in Agueda, Portugal 13 September and Warsaw. Poland 21 September 2019.
Yumi is running a Butoh workshop at Bochum, Germany, 28 Aug- 1 Sep 2019
Butoh for Puppeteers
28 (Wed) August to 1(Sun) September
10 am to 4 pm
Rottstraße 5, 44793 Bochum, Germany
When: 13 (Sat)14(Sun) July 2019@10am-5pm
Where: TRELOARLAND studio: 87a Albert street Brunswick
Over the weekend, Yumi will guide participants to explore their familiar and unfamiliar elements of physical and spatial expressions through the unique philosophy of Butoh and beyond. Participants are encourage to dive into their ‘unknown’ territories for embracing the joyful moments of ‘unleashing’
ButohOUT! 2019 is a festival to celebrate creative communities in Australia and beyond through the profound performance art medium of Butoh. 4 public workshops and 2 weeks performance season are held at Abbotsford Convent.
PopUp Tearoom Series at Abbotsford Convent' Open Spaces 2018
CuriosiTEA : Nov 17(Sat) 2 – 9pm & 18(Sun) 12 – 6pm @ Oratory, Sacred Heart building
Butoh & Body Weather Residential workshop 13-17 December 2018
At Wimmera River Victoria Australia
Led by Yumi Umiumare (Melbourne) & Frank van de Ven (Amsterdam)
The Art Gallery of South Australia will host the 2018 World Tea Gathering this November as part of the OzAsia Festival. Tea artists from Australia, France, Japan, Brazil and Germany will assemble from the 2nd to 9th of November, presenting a week of pop-up events and performances celebrating the art of tea.
Yumi is joining Back to Back Theatre’s Tokyo tour, performing in their masterpiece, small metal objects, a theatre show in the public domain; part voyeuristic meditation, part urban thriller.
An ingenious theatrical gem, small metal objects unfolds amidst the high volume pedestrian traffic of Ikebukuro Nishiguchi-park. With individual sets of headphones, the audience is wired into an intensely personal drama being played out somewhere in the crowd.
11 August, 2018, 9am-4pm @ Hamer Hall Stage Door Suite
A one day Workshop on durational performance presented by Arts Centre Melbourne and Melbourne Fringe .
Every Tuesday 10:30am-12:30pm
From 10 July till 21 Aug
@ Aka Studio East Brunswick
Through the workshop, Yumi introduces the basic philosophy and physical exercises in Butoh and other dance disciplines to open up Body, Space, Energy and Imagination!
The workshop is open to all levels of experience.