The Japanese/Australian butoh dancer Yumi Umiumare is returning to the stage this month to perform her solo show, Entrance. Described as a “unique blend of butoh, cabaret and devised performance amidst a mesmerising succession of large-scale video projections, electronic costumes, and installation, explores the Japanese metaphor of the ‘near shore’ of life and the ‘far shore’ of death.
Yumi is a dancer, choreographer and the creator of Butoh Cabaret and visceral dance theatre works. Originally a member of the Dai Rakudakan, the oldest Butoh company in Tokyo, she first came to Australia when the company appeared at the Melbourne Festival in 1991. She migrated to Australia in 1993 and since then has been creating her distinctive hybrid style.
Butoh is a distinctly Japanese style that arose after the Second World War.
For a glimpse of Entrance, see here
April 18-21, Performance Space, Redfern, Sydney.
Bookings: www.performancespace.com.au