da:ns focus 2024 | TOTEM - Void and Height (4 - 6 Oct 2024)

After eight years, one of the world’s most well-known butoh companies returns to Esplanade with their latest work, TOTEM - Void and Height.
Carrying on the legacy of the company’s acclaimed founder and choreographer Ushio Amagatsu, who passed away in March 2024, Sankai Juku presents his last choreographic work. TOTEM bears all the hallmarks of an Amagatsu work: minimalist yet elegant; a stunning visual spectacle created by the performers’ spellbinding physicality.
One of the world’s most influential and respected dance choreographers, Amagatsu created moving works of art for close to 50 years, each one anchored in deeply universal themes of birth, death, and the relationship between the body and gravity, as well as between gravity, earth and the environment. This is a chance for both fans of butoh and new audiences to experience the final piece of the choreographer’s artistry, a work that at once challenges your senses and welcomes you into a world of heightened beauty.
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