thu 3rd - sun 6th Apr 2025, £200/£180 The workshop combines studio and outdoor practice. Submerged in the landscape we will explore the terrain, rhythm and pace of Combe Valley in a small group. Outdoor practice directly engages with nature where the boundaries of life & death become more fluid and the senses are more stimulated whereas studio time focuses on body awareness drawn from somatic practice. Working in groups and pairs and individuals we will work towards performance making.

sun 16th Feb, 4.30- 7.30pm, sun 23rd Mar 1.30- 4.30 The Loft at Little Dippers, Brighton, £32/34/40 photo Kaixiang Zhang

Sat 7th Dec 2024, 1-5pm, Chisenhale Dance Space, London £45 ‘Express without expressing’ Tatsumi Hijikata (founder of Ankoku Butoh). This is a most controversial idea but it is at the very core of Butoh. We deepen our awareness from the everyday consciousness to the body’s innate state, becoming an empty vessel. drawing by April Yasamee

21st-23rd November, We Shine Portsmouth festival, 4.30-8.40, Treadgolds Multi-media immersive event produced by one000Plateuas Rusty Sheriff (sound), Kim Balouch (projection) and Yumino Seki (movement direction/choreography) with volunteer performers.

sat 21st September 2024, 7pm, £12-£14, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff Directed by Miranda Whall. Performers Miranda Whall, Owen Lloyd, Neil Luck, Yumino Seki and Angharad Davies will collaborate in arts, sciences and farming to tell recently rediscovered Ceirch du Bach (Black Oat seed) – a resilient crop that once grew on almost every upland farm in Wales.

8th & 14th September 2024, free entry Orleans House Gallery, Twickenham, TW1 3BL Internationally renowned choreographer Marie-Gabrielle Rotie and dancer Yumino Seki will bring Butoh dance with Nick Parkin's soundscape responding to Kate Howe's installation, The Templum.

3rd & 4th August 2024 Groundings Theatre, Portsmouth, £5 (funded by ACE) produced by one000plateaus https://one000plateaus.com

Sun 7th July, 2-7pm, Chisenhale dance Space. Exploring the aspects of shadows and light through the lens of Japanese traditional eyes. “Lacquerware decorated in gold is not something to be seen in a brilliant light, to be taken in at a single glance; it should be left in the dark, a part here and a part there picked up by a fain light. Its florid patterns recede into the darkness, conjuring in an inexpressible aura of depth and mystery, of overtones but partly suggested.” photo Kaixiang Zhang

Thu 23rd May, Fabrica, Brighton Fringe Festival In collaboration with Afrit Nebula (music), Mark French (projection) and dance.

thu 9th - mon 13th May 2024 residency performance workshop at Felinganol Woodland retreat, Wales.

Site-specific performance at St. Andrews Mew in Hastings on 26th - 28th April (TBC)

TRANSIT is an art intervention at Towner Eastbourne produced by Phoene Cave on 2nd, 4th 7th and 9th February 2024. The group of artists includes Florence Bell, Georgina, Kaixiang Zhang, Liz Overs, Loupe Cooper, Phoene Cave, Stuart Water, Yair Katz and Yumino Seki Artistic directors Rose Ryan and Charlie Kenber

Friday 26 January 16.00 - 21.00 Saturday 27 January 12.00 - 17.00 Sunday 28 January 12.00 – 17.00 Venue Choros Technis 14th day, Kallirois, 10 Athens (metro Acropolis) To register, email to: unclassifiedactions@gmail.com by January 15, 2024. Email subject: Name_Butoh workshop with Yumino Seki Participation cost: 150/120 (early bird) euros. Early bird deadline: December 20, 2023.

29th September at Kino, Hastings Performance in collaboration with Afrit Nebula (music), Mark French (projection), Ken Edwards (writing) and Yumino Seki (dance) Coastal Currents Festival 2023

sat 10 Sep 2023, Berlin, Germany Performance in collaboration with Carlé Costa (music) and his ensemble

Sat 1st July taster workshop, performance and Q&A at Guildhall Studios, Guildhall Walk, PO1 2AB in collaboration with 000plateous and Rusty Sheriff

Fri 16 Jun, 11-1pm, Hastings

12 Jun 2023, 6.30-8pm, outdoor session

3 Jun 2023, 11-5pm, £55, Chisenhale Dance Space In particular the workshop will focus on the theme of the archetypal hunter - ‘accepting your place as a bulwark between civilisation and the terrors of the wilderness’. We will explore the archetypes of the hunter and the prey, their roles and relationship encompassing the physical and beyond physical realm. Erasing human presence the stillness awaits. A point where the boundary between two seemingly oppositional forces becomes fluid.

Fri 19 May, 11-1pm, £10, Hastings

thu11-mon15th May, Felinganol, Wales £420 (incl. single occupancy cabin accommodation) £250 (without accommodation) Info & booking: felinganolretreats@gmail.com This residential workshop culminates into a site-specific performance directed by Yumino Seki at Felinganol Woodland Retreat in South West Wales.

Sat 15th April, 2-5pm, £30, West Hill Hall, Compton Ave, Brighton BN1 3PS, Brighton. Info & booking yuminoseki@gmail.com

Cherry Blossom Season Thu 23 March 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm, £45 live Performance of Koto, Calligraphy and Butoh

Fri 17th March, 11-1pm, £10 Info & booking yuminoseki@gamil.com

Sat 4th Feb 2023, 1-5pm, £40 The Research Studio, Chisenhale Dance Space (map) In particular this 4hour workshop focuses on evolutional transformation from the aquatic to the terrestrial. Throughout the aeons of time the ebb and flow of tide has changed the land. We will explore this everlasting dance of the fluid and mineral as forces of gradual erosion and violent rupture return the land to the sea.

Introduction to Japanese Dance Form Butoh 28. Jan.2023, 10.30-1.30pm at Ditchiling Museum, £40 photo from Scorpion by Zadie Xa at National Gallery London

15. Jan. 2023, 6-8pm, £20 at Brighton Natural Health Centre booking at BNHC

21. Dec. 2022, 6pm onwards, Rossi Bar, Brighton. Live performance, collaboration with Antivoid. Cerebrating the winter solstice