“Umiumare [has] created a unique expression of Butoh that’s become part of Melbourne’s cultural currency.”

“The overall colourful effect is simultaneously striking and shocking. ”

“Yumi Umiumare and the ButohOUT! Ensemble elegenatly place, embrace, displace and reinstate their audience in and out of layered worlds from the box office till the bow.”

“Colour-Fool is a nightmare reflection on the strangeness of the times, but it is also, in its quieter moments, an earnest celebration of otherness and abnormality.”

“We are laughing, but always in a minor key”

“Some of the characters in this work functioned as ciphers, beyond who they were as people. This opened up a realm of possibility for the viewer to experience and interpret the uncanny function of the work as a whole.”

“.. notions of “the impossible task” are explored in vignettes and installations throughout the space.”

“ButohOUT! feels like Samuel Beckett meets Beyoncé via Eraserhead”

“This piece of erotic comedy captures a strong sense of Butoh itself, and at this moment, we find a laugh that is so instinctive, our egotistic exterior cracks.”