En Trance is a contemporary mashups art work of dance, media art, theatre, text, sounds and installation. The general idea about En Trance is duality world. Read more about En Trance here.
The Australians - Alison Croggon
In response to En Trance which is created and performed by Yumi Umiumare , I developed numbers of materials. Several decisions and cuts were made and formed into thefinal following scenes.
1. Cityscape
Using video palettes from Andy Donovan and Yumi Umiumare, and inspired by Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, Cityscape was born. Two different busy transient worlds were surpassed and juxtaposed each other emphasizing the idea of duality in the maze scene. Within the time differences between two (video) worlds, the images were sliced, extended, warped and shrunk so the time and places essences were irrelevant as in the void. This provides somehow multiple environments for the performer to jump between two or more worlds exhorting the differences but at the end also about cohesiveness .
Bambang Nurcahyadi’s visual projections transport us into a bustling Japanese cityscape, with the compression and distortion of urban life evoked through Umiumare’s shadow-drenched wall-dancing.
Cameron Woodhead – The Age
This sequence is like an assault; the noise is alienating, the images confusing to the eye.
Alison Croggon -The Australians
2. Cracked Mirror - Tempe Gero Train
The idea of Cityscape was repeated again in this piece, and this time by splitting the video screen into two, where 2 trains collides each other in non-sequential rhythm.
Inspired by Miyazaki, Spiritted Away, this piece provides a somewhat nature environment. I showed Yumi one of my favourite scene in Spiritted Away, when the main character accompanied by the ghost catching a train in the vast lonely swamp. I was mesmerized by this scene, which I found so ethereal and meditatif. So, I come with this idea which is so perfect to enhance Cracked Mirror.
Cracked Mirror video result is projected through 5 cascading “soba noodle like” screen created by Naomi Ota that generates an array of trickle-down left- right, and upper-under world movement.
3.Punk Medusa
Instead literally responding the idea by providing “a woman with head of snake hair” work, the possibility is pushed by replacing the woman’s head with squarish video work a la Sydney Nolan’s Ned Kelly. The music in the video is full of dubs, and breaks, brilliantly created by Ian Keatney.David Anderson’s costume design adding the grandeur of splendour visual effect.
Cameron Woodhead – The Age
4.Tears
Several works are created to emphasize the evocative mixed emotion of humourous and heartfelt monologue of Tears.
4.a.Miseratete Karaoke: Miseratete Karaoke is created based on an intentional sappy, nostalgic, karaoke style video and completed with English translation of the Japanese lyrics.
4.b.Tears Visual Poetry: Three different poems about Mother, Father, and Personal feelings of Yumi Umiumare displayed like a rain falling from the sky.
4.c.Tsuchiya-San Calligraphy: The animations are generated by using original brush stroke from Tsuchiya-san, projected directly in the performer’s body a la live digital painting. The impacts are several surreal imageries with or without the shadow of the performer.
5.Sakasama
Sakasama is used as narrative intro of Shiro Hebi piece.
6.Spirits- Jumping
Spirits-Jumping is created as a closing piece emphasizing the meaning that everything that were described earlier now become a full-circle.
PRODUCTION HISTORY
- 13 - 14 October 2009 - OzAsia Festival - Space Theater Adelaide Festival Centre, SA
- August 28 – September 13 - Malthouse Thetre - Melbourne, VIC
PRODUCTION CREDITS
- Created And Performed By Yumi Umiumare
- Dramaturge Moira Finucane
- Media Artist Bambang Nurcahyadi
- Visual Artist Naomi Ota
- Sound Designer Ian Kitney
- Costume Designer David Anderson
- Lighting Designer Kerry Ireland
- Production Manager Diana Hume