SYNOPSIS
"You don't have to know anything about butoh to enjoy Tobari, which offers 90 minutes of meditative visual beauty."
– The New York Times
"The audience could not help but gaze at this soothing philosophical performance."
– Le Monde
"The singular glory of Sankai Juku is that it achieves almost pure metaphor."
– Time Magazine
Against a galaxy of stars, eight butoh dancers, including artistic director Amagatsu who performs a solo, meander across time and space in a journey through the cosmos of life, from birth to rebirth. The Japanese art of butoh, sometimes called the dance of darkness, was born after the second World War. Today, it is regarded as one of Japan's most original contributions to the world of contemporary dance.
Tobari – As if in an inexhaustible flux is a poetic masterpiece by Sankai Juku's celebrated founder, artistic director and choreographer Ushio Amagatsu, a recipient of the Laurence Olivier Award and Asahi Performing Arts Awards Grand Prix. Amagatsu creates a world filled with dense darkness and flickering light, inhabited by souls engaged in a "cosmic dance" (Le Monde), where the boundaries between joy and sorrow, light and darkness, life and death blend softly, like the dividing line between the fading daylight in an evening sky. Set against the light of 6,600 stars, the dancers embark on this lyrical meditation on the luminescence of life and human existence.
This stunning work had its world premiere at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris, in May 2008 to a sold-out run. Since its inception in 1975, Sankai Juku has now come to be one of the world's most renowned butoh dance companies. Having performed in over 700 cities, Sankai Juku marks its highly-anticipated return to Singapore after 22 years.
ADVISORY
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General Late Seating Advisory
You are strongly advised to be seated 15 minutes before the performance start time.
No admission will be allowed into the venue once the performance has commenced.
Exceptions may be made at Esplanade's discretion depending on the nature of the performance.
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Please note the following conditions:
- Replacement Tickets can only be issued for performances with reserved seating.
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- Esplanade reserves the right to not issue a Replacement Ticket if we are not able to verify the claim.
- All patrons (including children) must have tickets for admission to ticketed events.
- Infants-in-arms and children aged below six years will not be admitted to ticketed events unless otherwise stated.
