Synopsis
Yumi is a ballet student in Japan, Yumi Umiumare was cautioned not to look like a Butoh dancer when performing. Wanting to understand, she went to see a Butoh performance and was amazed and shocked by the dark and twisted performance. This film explores Yumi nearly 30 years later, now a celebrated Melbourne-based Butoh artist, teaching the community the often misunderstood and obscure art of Butoh.
Credits
A film by
Samad Shiarz & Alice Palmer
Archive footage and photographs
Yumi Umiumare’s personal collection
and
The Internet Archive
Music
‘Before the Dawn’
‘Dasshoku Hora!’
‘ENTRANCE’
‘Quiapo Dream’,
Yumi Umiumare, Permission from author
Defecting to dance in America
Internet Archive, Public Domain
With thanks to
Paul Ritchard and Alan Nguyen
Studio Instructor
Rohan Spong
Created as part of Real to Reel
Studio School of Media and Communication
RMIT
2021