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Temperance Movement #4
Anastassia Krstevska & Yumi Umiumare
Provocation Series
DATE & TIME
Wednesday 23 September, 6:30pm
LOCATION
Temperance Hall, Main Hall
199 Napier Street
South Melbourne
ACCESSIBILITY
Wheelchair accessible
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How are you negotiating practice in this time?
Inspired by the hall’s history of housing meetings of the Emerald Hill Total Abstinence Society, where public testimony was employed to convert others to the movement, Temperance Movement is a new initiative held across four weeks at Temperance Hall that supports choreographers to present new ideas.
Held weekly across September, each iteration of Temperance Movement invites two artists to share their current preoccupations in a supportive, in-progress format — one artist is invited to do so through movement, the other, through speech.
Curated by Dr. Brooke Stamp, the series draws on the history of Temperance Hall as a site of public meetings, where speeches, debates, and personal testimonies were used to persuade and mobilise audiences. Reframed within a contemporary choreographic context, Temperance Movement adopts this structure as a way to create space for critical reflection, articulation, and dialogue around choreographic practice.
Positioned between a showing and a forum, each evening offers a platform for artists to test ideas publicly and to contribute to a broader conversation around the conditions, languages, and preoccupations of contemporary movement-based practice.
FACILITATOR Dr. Brooke Stamp
SPEAKER Anastassia Krstevska
MOVER Yumi Umiumare
Anastassia Krstevska is a recent graduate dancer from the Victoria College of the Arts. She has a diverse creative background that complements her dance practice, including experience in theatre, comedy, stand-up, and visual art, with a particular interest in analog photography. She has written, directed, performed, and danced across Australia, embracing a creative and deep thinking approach that is not confined to a single paradigm of making. Anastassia’s first love was political philosophy and she brings lateral and systems thinking to creative work.
Her performance credits include works by Melbourne-based choreographers Damian Meredith, David Prakash, Gregory Lorenzutti, and Sarah Aiken. She currently works for Traditional Owners at the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation, in Woiwurrung language licensing, in support of language reconstruction efforts.
Yumi Umiumare is a Japanese-born, multi-award-winning performance maker and creator of Butoh Cabaret, integrating ritual practices including the Japanese tea ceremony. For over 30 years, she has developed a distinctive practice that evokes visceral emotion through narrative, abstraction, ritual, and humour, exploring cultural identity across traditional and contemporary life. Her internationally acclaimed works have been presented across five continents. Her socially engaged practice includes collaborations with First Nations communities, refugee communities, and people with disability through inclusive arts practices. She is Artistic Director of ButohOUT!, a recipient of an Australia Council Fellowship, multiple Green Room Awards, and the Melbourne Fringe Living Legend Award, and is a significant contributor to the contemporary global Butoh scene.