Class today is Guided Improvisation w/ Yumi Umiumare
In this class, Yumi facilitates a guided improvisation for participants to find their own space of liberation. Through her unique exercises exploring nature, animal, objects and other playful elements, you will explore spatial, physical and mental freedom within your limits.
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This class will use some visualisations, conversation and aims to be accessible to all bodies present. The instructions will be given according to participant needs and preferences.
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About Yumi Umiumare
Born in Hyogo, Japan, Yumi is an established Butoh Dancer and choreographer and creator of Butoh Cabaret works. She has been creating her distinctive style of works for 30 years and her works are renowned for provoking visceral emotions and cultural identities. Yumi’s works have been seen in numerous festivals in dance, theatre and film productions throughout Australia, Japan, Europe, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America, and have received several Australian Green Room awards. As a choreographer, Yumi has worked with many socially engaged theatre projects, with Australian First Nations communities, Asylum seekers and refugee communities, culturally diverse groups and inclusive dance and theatre companies. (BighART, Marrugeku, Back to Back Theatre and Weave Movement Theatre) Yumi is a recipient of a fellowship from Australia Council (2015-16) and the winner of the Green Room Geoffrey Milne Memorial Award in 2017 in recognition of her outstanding contribution to Contemporary and Experimental Performance. Yumi is an artistic director of ButohOUT! Festival, active in local and international Butoh communities in Melbourne and teaches nationally and internationally.
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