Wanna Be a Rabbit?
ABOUT
A dynamic collaboration between Yumi Umiumare and Weave Movement Theatre. Highly visual physical theatre with a sense of the ridiculous.
Wannabe a Rabbit? is the outcome of the unique chemistry between Yumi Umiumare, an international 'Butoh Cabaret' artist and Weave, a company of disabled and non-disabled performers.
Through Butoh-esque absurdity, highly visual physical theatre, text and startling installations, the work humorously reverses societal perceptions. It probes the human compulsion to categorise and judge. What are you? A wife, a worker, disabled, a refugee, black/white, an Aussie oi oi, a rabbit?
CREATORS
Director/Choreographer
Yumi Umiumare
Artistic Director, Weave Movement Theatre
Janice Florence
Co-creator/Performers
David Baker, Willow J Conway, Trevor Dunn, Janice Florence, Zya Kane, Greg Muir, Emma Norton, Anthony Riddell, Takashi Takiguchi
Sound Designer
Dan West
Installation artist
Pimpisa Tinpalet
Costume designers
Joe Noonan & Brynna Lowen
Lighting designer
Rachel Lee
Videographer
Tan Kang Wei
Photographer
Vikk Shayen
Outside eye
Maude Davey
CREDITS
Photos Documentation
Mu’sa Saiq @musasaiq_
PRODUCTION HISTORY
Australia Premiere
28 May - 6 June 2021
The Stables, Meat Market North Melbourne
*Due to the 5th Lockdown starting on the midnight of 28th May, the season has been canceled
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Lucy Gurien
Creative Victoria
City of Melbourne
Gandel Philanthropy