Sankai Juku TOTEM: Void and Height

Sankai Juku creates work that unfolds slowly and deliberately, into what can feel like a new world, where forces like time and gravity seem to act on us in radically new ways. In TOTEM: Void and Height, dancers move with extraordinary presence and precision. Practicing the Japanese dance tradition of Butoh, the company’s performances exist somehow between stillness and action, between gravity and transcendence—and sometimes feel less like watching dance and more like stepping inside a waking dream. The final work choreographed by their founder Ushio Amagatsu before his death in 2024, TOTEM: Vo