(Butoh-Dance) Preston VIC 3072 PO Box 1743 Collingwood VIC 3066 Phone: 0413-454-531 E-mail: yumi@yumi.com.au _ Website:www.yumi.com.au
1993 -		Working as a freelance Dancer/Actor/Choreographer
1993		Immigrated to Australia
1990		Joined Butoh Dance Company DaiRakudakan, Tokyo
1990 - 1988		Worked for Recuruit Co., Tokyo
1988		Graduated at Kobe University, Hyogo
1979 - 1974		Studied Riich Arahori Ballet School, Osaka
1965		Born in Itami-city, Hyogo
2004 November		‘The Burlesque Hour’ The Studio at Sydney Opera HouseMoira Finucane, Jackie Smith, Azaria Universe, Yumi UmiumareSpecial Guest Toni Lamondin Association with Finucane & Smith and Keep Breathing Productions
2004 October		Guest Star appearance at the Blue Rinse Club, The Arts Centre, Black Box, Melbourne, as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival
2004 September		‘Eavesdrop’ Energex, Brisbane; Melbourne International Arts Festival; Sydney Festival A Not Yet It's Difficult production
2004 September		‘How could you even begin to understand? #30-33’ Dancehouse, Melbourne
2004 July		‘The Burlesque Hour’ Premiere season at fourtyfive downstairs, MelbourneMoira Finucane, Jackie Smith, Azaria Universe, Yumi Umiumare
2004 July		‘Women In Transit’ Dance Performance season at Performance Space, SydneyRakini: India/Australia (NSW), Yumi Umiumare: Japan /Australia (VIC), DD Dorvillier: USA (New York)
2004 May/June		Project in Broome with MARRUGEKU produced by STALKER THEATRE COMPANY.
2004 April/May		‘DasSHOKU HORA!!’ Showing of work in progress, Dante's Fitzroy
2004 March		‘Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl’ toured to Canberra , National Multicultural Festival
2004 January		‘Saucy Cantina’ (with Moira Finucane and Jackie Smith), Hong Kong City Fringe Festival
2003 December		‘Short Sharp Shift’ in collaboriaton with Moira Finucane & Jackie Smith
2003 October		‘in-compatibility’ (co-directed with Tony Yap) Presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria in association with Melbourne International Arts Festival
2003 September		'24 hours' performance (directed by Stuart Lynch), Image of Asia Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2003 September
2003 July~August		‘Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl’ 2003 Kultour - Fremantle, Adelaide, Tasmania, Lismore (funded by Australia Council)
2003 July		‘DasSHOKU Cultivation!!’ Collaboration with Theatre Gumbo & Matt CrosbyOsaka, Japan (Arts Victoria Cultural Exchange program)
2003 March		‘How could you even begin to understand? #25-28’ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2003 February		‘INORI-in-visible’ (solo performance) in the Traces Post Butoh Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2002 October		‘How could you even begin to understand? #22-24’ Sydney Carnivale 2002
2002 August		‘How could you even begin to understand? #21’ JADE 2002 Beyond Butoh, Tokyo
2002 July		‘The Witch Haven, released as Shinjuku Thief {Dorobo}
2002 July		Theatre Kantanka production season ‘Inana's Descent’, Masonic Center, Sydney
2002 May		‘How could you even begin to understand? #19 & 20 ’ Australian dance week, Brisbane
		2002 May ‘How could you even begin to understand? #14-18’ collaboration with Anthony Pelchen and Hisako Tsuzuku, at Mass Gallery
2001 October~December		‘Rice Paddies’ Melbourne International Festival & Big West Festival
2001 September		‘Journey of the Northern Tiger’ Tour to Harping (China) with Wu-Lin Dance Theatre,
2001 September		‘How could you even begin to understand? # 9,10,11,12’ in Mixed Metaphor, Dancehouse
2001 May		‘Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl’ Adelaide Cabaret Festival
2001 April		‘How could you even begin to understand? # 8’ North Melbourne Town Hall with Caligrapher Hisako Tsuzuku
2001 April		‘Wimmera Sunrise’
2001 April		‘.such a fertile ground’, collaboration performance, installation by Anthony Pelchen
2001 Jan		Performing in the theatre production "Miss Tanaka" with Handspan Visual Theatre, at Playbox
2000 Oct		Performing in the theatre production "Meat Party " in Playbox, Melbourne International Festival
2000 Aug		Solo performance 'INORI-in-visible' in Mixed Metaphor season at Dancehouse, installation by Anthony Pelchen
2000 May		Tour to Blue Mountains `Songs of Wind Festival` and Canberra Choreographic Center with Wu-Lin Dance Theatre, " Journey of the Northern Tiger" Guest Performance in ` LIVE ACTS` with Chunky Move at Blackbox, Melbourne, Next Wave Festival
2000 April		Solo performance as a part of Theatreworks events ` FUTURE FUSION`" Performance in Asian music and dance festival with Satsuki Odamura at the Studio, Sydney Opera House
2000 March		Performance in Moomba festival with company N.Y.I.D " How could you even begin to understand # 7" with Tony Yap ,Horsham Arts Festival
2000 Feb		"Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl" returning season at Gasworks
2000 Jan		Solo Performance 'in-visible-INORI' collaborated with Anthony Pelchen, Takarazuka City, Japan (International Cultural Exchange Grant by Arts Victoria)
1999 Oct		" How could you even begin to understand #4,5,6" with Tony Yap at St. Stephen Church, Installation by Anthony Pelchen, Melbourne Fringe Festival "Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl" at Czech House, Melbourne Fringe Festival
1999 June		" How could you even begin to understand #3, with Tony Yap at Horsham Regional Art Gallery (Exhibition opening of Anthony Pelchen)
1999 May~Jan		Performances in 'Song of Wind Festival' (Blue Mountains) and Asian dance and music festival (Sydney), and Japanese Arts Festival (Glen Eira Arts Complex, Melbourne) with Satsuki Odamura. " How could you even begin to understand #2, with Tony Yap in Antistatic, Sydney Solo performance " Keiken no keiken" at Kobe Union Church, Japan
1998 Aug		Performance of "Kagome" with Nadoya Music and Dance Company, Made to Move'98 touring Melbourne and Sydney.
1998 June		" Fleeting Moments" March: "Masterkey" by Mary Moore, Adelaide & Perth International festival
1997 Nov~Dec		" Love Suicides" by John Romeril, Canberra Melbourne( Playbox)
1997 June~July		"Amleto (Hamlet)" with Theatro Dioniso & Tony Yap, Festivale dell Colline torinese and Portevenere Festivale, Italy (International Cultural Exchange Program from Arts Victoria)
1997 Apr~May		" To Run- Sand" by Alison Halit, Melbourne Feb: "Narcissus' dream" (Directed by Tony Yap)
1996 ~ 1994		"How could you even begin to understand#1", Experimenta Arts Festival Performance season "Kagome" with Nadoya music & dance company
1993 ~ 1990		"Sea Dappled Horse" and " Ugetsu" With DaiRakudakan, Tokyo and Melbourne Japanese Theatre season with Harupin-Ha at Le Rond de Point Theatre, Paris Toured with Japanese Women's Butoh group Toyokai, around North Japan.
Bachelor of Education (Humanities, Phys.Ed., Japanese Language), 1988, Kobe Univ.
1973-1980		Classical Ballet ( Riichi Arahori Ballet Studio, Osaka)
1989-1993		Dance Workshops in various Modern dance, Traditional Japanese Theatre Butoh Style with Hideko Tano, Genshu Hanayagi, Dai Rakudakan, Kazuo Ohno, Eiko&Koma, Toru Iwashita (Sankai Juku)
2001		'Miss Tanaka' in The AGE, The Australian, Herald Sun
2000		'Meat Party' in The AGE 'Inori-in-visible' in Herald Sun, Sun Herald, Real Times
1999		'Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl' in The AGE, Melbourne Times,InPress Magazine, Beat Magazine
1998		'Fleeting Moments' in The AGE, The Australian, Melbournian, InPress Magazine
1997		'Love Suicides' in Real Time Other Publication 2000 Art link, Yomiuri and Kobe Shinbun (Newspaper in Japan)
1998		Asahi Shinbun (Newspaper)
2000		'Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl' By Yumi Umiumare 'Green Room Awards, 'Most Innovative Use Of Form', Cabaret categoly
1999		'Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl' By Yumi Umiumare Melbourne Fringe Festival Awards
1997		Awarded Inaugural Women Artists Grant by Arts Victoria.
I believe that real CROSS CULTURE is not 'getting cross' with another's culture, but accepting the difference and learning from that. Away from our own country, we are in the good position to explore this new area. I am hoping that many Japanese artists will start collaborating with each other more, here in Australia.
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"How could you even begin to understand", 1996 'Fleeting Moments", 1998 © Six 6 Photography "Tokyo DasSHOKU Girl", 1999 © Six 6 Photography