Yumino Seki is a U.K based independent dance artist, Butoh practitioner and certified somatic movement educator. She was born in Japan and has trained in both classical and contemporary dance.
Seki’s most recent work, HYAKKI YAKOU – A Night Walk of A Hundred Demons, is a site-specific Butoh performance (2013). The piece was inspired by The Durbar Hall, Hastings Museum and funded by the Arts Council England and The Japan Society.
Seki has been interested in authenticity of the temporal body for many years resulting in many pieces, which are site responsive and improvised in nature such as
Artbeat, Egypt, 2012 commissioned by The Japan Foundation, Cairo, Beyond the Circle, 2011 commissioned by Hastings Borough Council. INTERFACE, Belgium 2011 and From A to B, Dover, 2010 commissioned by Christine Gist, Telling Stories, Margate 2011 & Hastings 2012, commissioned by Cathryn Kemp and Transformation 2004 and Art fair 2008 were commissioned by Denizhan Ozer and performed in Istanbul.
Since 1999 she has trained and worked in Butoh predominantly with Tadashi Endo (Mamu Dance Theatre), Yumiko Yoshioka (TEN PEN CHii) both in Germany and Carlotta Ikeda (Ariadone) in France.
Seki performed in Der Zorn Gotters, Migration 01, Back Pack, Kimera and Admeto (opera) with Tadashi Endo. TESTLABOUR, Minus Alpha, Kunstkarawane and Ketusi with Ten-Pen-Chii and Zarathoustra with Ariadone directed by Carlotta Ikeda and Ko Murobushi.
Seki has been performing internationally since 1999.
