Commemorating 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of Japan-Türkiye Diplomatic Relations
Sankai Juku Performance in Türkiye

Sankai Juku is a butoh company founded in 1975 by its leader, Ushio Amagatsu, which began touring abroad in 1980, performing in over 700 cities in 48 countries around the world, including Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia, and Oceania. Currently based mainly in France and Japan, the company continues to present a new work approximately once every two years.
In addition to directing and choreographing, Amagatsu also comprehensively has designed the space and costumes for his works. Amagatsu has consistently considered Butoh as a "dialogue with gravity", and has received high acclaim for his approach to the universal inner nature of human beings, such as "birth" and "death".
In 2002, they received the Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production for their London performance of "Hibiki". In 2013, they received the Japan Foundation Award.
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(c) Sankai Juku

Kae Ishimoto was born into a family line that perpetuates the traditional Japanese dancers, Nihon buyo. She began learning traditional Japanese dance from the age of three, jazz dance from the age of four, and has since trained in modern, contemporary, and butoh dance. Since 2002, she has been working with Yukio Waguri, one of the direct disciples of Tatsumi Hijikata. She began her career as Butoh dancer under Waguri’s guidance and has worked with Natsu Nakajima, Yoshito Ohno, Moe Yamamoto and Minako Seki, among others. In 2011, she performed her solo "Transformation Girl", choreographed by Waguri using the Hijikata method of butoh, in 8 countries in Asia and Europe. She has been invited to perform in various festivals in 21 countries in Asia, Europe and the US, such as Bangkok Fringe festival, Butoh Festival in Barcelona.
As the director of "Perspectives On Hijikata Research Collective (POHRC)", with Rosa van Hensbergen, she has organized intensive workshops and events in Japan and UK for 11 years, and has been invited as a Butoh teacher to 14 countries and regions such as Hong Kong, Indonesia and Mexico. She teaches Hijikata’s Butoh-fu (Butoh Notation System) not only for academic research purpose, but also as a practice for dancers and performers.
Since 2020, she is the curator of Hijikata Tatsumi Archive in the Keio University Art Center.

(c) Aleksandr Sasha Drozd