In these pieces, Yuma presents the concepts of nature and the elements as personal gifts that are given freely by God for us to pass along without the clutter of the ego.
Atsuko Yuma
Singer,
Dancer, Composer
YUMA'S PERFORMING EXPERIENCE
THEATER
Public Theater ** Avery Fisher Hall ** La Mama, etc.
** The Jazz Gallery ** The Asia Society ** Lincoln Center Library (Auditorium)
** Jazz Center of New York ** Kampo Cultural Center ** Tenri Cultural Institute
of NY ** Inroads ** United Nations ** The New York Coliseum ** Paul Robeson
Cultural Center ** International House Auditorium ** Sound Scape ** Beacon
Theater
NIGHTCLUBS
Tavern on the Green ** Jazz Mania Society ** Copacabana ** Mudd Club **
Tramps ** Leviticus International ** Bitter End ** New York, New York
** The Living Room ** Callback ** Cabaret ** Palladium ** Apollo Theater
** The Knitting Factory ** Nell's
TELEVISION
The Joe Franklin Show/Channel 9 ** MTV ** CNN "Show Bis" **
Regular on The World Culture Workshop,
Channel 34 Manhattan Neighborhood Network Television.
RECORDING
With Laurie Anderson, Warner Bros. Records ** With Bill Laswell, Sony
Records, Japan ** With Ronnie N. Seldin, Columbia Sony
TRAVELING
Japanese Folk Festival, Japan ** Culture and Peace Events, North Korea
** Peace Concert, Ecuador
CHURCHES
St. Peters Church ** Cathedral of St. John the Divine ** Trinity Church
** Washington Square Church ** Riverside Church
MUSEUMS
Metropolitan Museum of Art ** Islip Art Museum ** Alternative Museum **
Museum of Natural History ** Museum of the City of New York ** Children's
Museum of Manhattan ** Brooklyn Children's Museum **
OUTDOORS/PARKS
Lincoln Center Damrosch Park ** Brooklyn Botanic Gardens ** Bronx Botanic
Gardens **
Central Park Bandshell ** 42nd Street Bus Terminal ** Longwood Garden,
PA
SCHOOL PERFORMANCES
Pennsylvania State University (PENN) ** NYU ** Hunter College ** Stuyvesant
High School **
Lindenhurt Senior & High School ** The New School ** Third Street
Music School **
** And 20 years of performing at many elementary, junior high & high
schools
Yuma also performs Japanese Music & Dance at many hospitals and seniors houses, through Hospital Audiences.
Nov. 2011 Charity Concert for Japan in Japan
Aug. 2011 Charity Concert for Japan at The International Center in NY
May 2011 Performed at “ Found Raising Party for Japan “ in NY
Aug. 2010 Performed " Eco Fest Festival " at the Lincoln Center in NY
Aug. 2009 Performed “ Last Leaf” Play in Tokyo Japan
Sep. 2008 Multi-Media Performance, sponsor by Woodstock Museum, NY
Dec. 2007 Multi-Media Performance, Jazz Club,Hs Trash in Tokyo and Choheiji in Nagano in Japan
Oct. 2007 Performed Nagasaki 1945 Angelus Bell Program in United Nation
Sep 2006 Performed in The U.N. NGO 59th Conference. N.Y.C.
Aug. 2005 Performed in Riverside Church for Hiroshima¹s
day Peace Event
Oct. 2004 Performed in Japanese High School in Japan
Sep. 2004 Multe-media Performance at Woodstock Museum. N.Y.C.
Aug. 2004 Performed in Ecuador
Sep. 2003 Multe-media Performance at Williamsburg Art & Historical
Center in N.Y.C.
July 2002 Performed at The Wood Stock Museum. N.Y.C.
Jun 2002 Atsuko Yuma & her friends to perform at The Tenri Cultural
Institute of N.Y. in self produced show entitled
³Music of Love and Harmony².
May 2002 Produced own CD entitled ³Mother Tsuru³.
Oct. 2001 Yuma & her company performed at The N.Y.Botanical Garden.
May 2001 Produced own CD entitled ³Peace Project³.
Jul 1998 Yuma and her band performed at The Knitting Factory,N.Y.C.
1997 - 1999 Appeared regularly on Time Warner’s "World Culture Workshop" NYC Channel # 34
Aug. 1997 Appeared on MTV’s Oddville Show
Aug. 1997 Appeared on CNN’s "Show Biz"
July 1997 Yuma & Culture Exchange at Le Bar Bat in NYC
June 1996 Recorded Japanese Lullaby with Ronnie N. Seldin for Columbia Records
Jan. 1996 Eric & Mary Ross’s multi-media performance at Binghamton, NY
April 1995 Pyongyang International Sports & Cultural for Peace in North Korea
Nov. 1994 Yuma & Culture Exchange at Nell’s in NYC
Oct. 1994 Yuma & Culture Exchange at The Bitter End in NYC
April 1994 Recorded own CD, "Dreamer" produced by Image Box in Japan
June 1993 "Yosakoi Soran Festival" In Sapporo City, Japan
March 1993 Apollo Theater in Harlem, NYC
Aug. 1992 Sang an original composition called "Song for Peace" at United Nations NYC
May 1991 Sang with Ronnie N. Seldin at the Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC
Jan. 1991 Appeared on the Joe Franklin T.V. Show, Channel 9
April 1990 Sang Japanese Children’s Songs at the New York Children’s Museum NYC
June 1990 Yuma: " I hear Something", The Knitting Factory NYC
May 1987 Performed Japanese Drum Dance at the Palladium in NYC
Feb. 1986 Established the Hibiki Performing Arts Group, a-non-for-profit organization
Nov. 1984 Atsuko Yuma: Provision of Earth, Jazz Center in NYC
June 1984 Recorded w/ Laurie Anderson for Warner Bros. Records in USA
March 1984 Recorded w/ Bill Laswell & Genji Sawai, CBS Sony in Japan
June 1982 "Kool Jazz Festival," w/ Karl Berger’s Music Universe Orchestra, Lincoln Center
Avery Fisher Hall in NYC
Sept. 1981 "Woodstock Jazz Festival" w/ Nana Vasconcelos’s Band
June 1980 "Women’s Jazz Festival" at Lincoln Center in NYC
July 1979 Don Cherry’s Dream Band at the Public Theater in NYC
July 1979 Atsko Yuma: Original play "Mother Tsuru" at La Mama Annex in NYC
Since 1980 Atsuko Yuma has been performing Japanese Music and Dance through HAI (Hospital Audiences Inc.) At Hospitals, Schools and Senior Houses.
