Sankai Juku, Japan’s finest exponents of Butoh dance, presents a boy's dream about life and death in Kinkan Shonen.
Sankai Juku create dreamlike performances which weave meticulous, spellbinding movement with breathtaking, large-scale staging in a theatrical experience quite unlike any other.
Kinkan Shonen, explores a boy's dream about life and death using mystic imagery as dancers’ bodies slowly transform into a series of almost non-human shapes, and a live peacock patrols the stage.
Kinkan Shonen is followed from Fri-Sun by Toki, one of the Sankai Juku’s newest works.
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