Sankai Juku weaves meticulous spellbinding movement with breathtaking visual spectacle to create deeply moving theatrical experiences. The work of choreographer Ushio Amagatsu and his company are ...

Butoh choreographer Ushio Amagatsu has described his spellbinding works as dialogues with air, nature and gravity. Since its international debut in France in 1980, his company Sankai Juku has ...

Sankai Juku, the legendary butoh company from Japan, is known for arresting images: dancers suspended from massive sculptures or live doves atop tall poles. “Umusuna — Memories Before History” begins ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The performance begins with a column of sand cascading from the ceiling, ...

This weekend, a world renowned dance company will create art out of chaos as the University Musical Society presents Sankai Juku’s “Hibiki: Resonance From Far Away.” Since its beginning in Japan in ...

With elegant simplicity, white-painted male dancers compose a series of patterns against a black backdrop. Sankai Juku, a Tokyo- and Paris-based butoh dance troupe, presents “Kagemi (Beyond the ...

The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku gave the U.S. premiere of its mesmerizing work Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land at the Granada Theatre. (David Bazemore photo) The Tokyo-born company Sankai Juku ...

SINGAPORE — Can you sit through an hour and a half of non-stop gorgeous? In slow motion? That’s exactly how Sankai Juku’s production, Kagemi: Beyond The Metaphors Of Mirrors, felt like. There seems to ...

In the dimly lit auditorium, audience members filled the seats of the first level, leaving only a few spots open for Sankai Juku’s performance of Utsushi at Hancher. Dancing a piece that combined many ...

It's not hard to see why Sankai Juku is the leading popularizer of Japanese butoh, so wildly loved that co-presenters San Francisco Performances and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts counted ...

Japanese butoh is at once exquisite and confounding. Launched in the 1950s, this expressionistic art drew from Eastern and Western traditions and injected grotesque elements into modern dances — ...

The curtain calls of Sankai Juku are sumptuous, humble and majestic. At the Wednesday-night opening of “Hibiki: Resonance From Far Away,” at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the “I am your servant” slow curtsies ...