About Conan AMOK
Choreographer and dancer. Founder of Sanzen CAMP. Artistic Director of A5yl / Sanzen Kobo. Graduated from the Department of Sculpture at Musashino Art University in 2010. From 2008 to 2019, he was a member of the renowned butoh company Dairakudakan, studying under Akaji Maro. During his tenure, he performed and choreographed works, and also served as Akaji Maro’s understudy.
Grounded in sculptural thinking and a phenomenological perspective, Amok researches and practices an original body methodology titled “Multi Layered Body.” Rather than conceiving the body as a “subject of expression,” he redefines it as an accumulation of folds in which interior and exterior continuously invert—namely, as a perceptual circuit for reconfiguring space. Through this approach, he explores the body as a phenomenon in which multiple layers of time, perception, and meaning are simultaneously sedimented.
His dance begins from a solid, meticulously constructed body born out of restraint and resistance. Within meta-structural frameworks, it harbors a form of ecstasy as controlled collapse, generating intense tension between movement and stillness, intention and the unconscious, the individual body and the gaze.
In addition to presenting solo and collaborative works both in Japan and internationally, he shares his body techniques through workshops and research-based activities. He has also appeared extensively in stage productions, television dramas, films, music videos, and commercials.
He has served as an instructor at Butoh Lab Camp (2023) and as a Special Lecturer at Musashino Art University (2023), among other appointments.
Selected for the Dance Base Yokohama International Dance Project "Wings" (2024-) for the next generation of creators who will take flight on the world stage.
About the PERFORMANCE
This piece does not present a completed form. It sustains the trembling state where structure, collapse, and reconfiguration coexist̶ transforming theatre into an interior space of sensation. A single body stands still, its multiple axes folded inward. Beneath the surface image of stability, invisible pleats accumulate in layered strata, harboring the torsion of forces held in suspension. A slight deviation of angle propagates̶from pelvis to thoracic cage, from shoulders to head̶quietly prying open the latent layers within. Breath and gaze no longer coincide; each descends to a different depth, inverting interior and exterior. Equilibrium is not a fixed completion. It is a state in which innumerable possibilities, compressed to the verge of collapse, tremble while remaining folded together. What rises only once is not a singular figure. Multiple axes unfold simultaneously: an image that is one and yet plural. In the next instant, control unravels; folds open, axes deviate, and the body disseminates into space. Yet the event does not conclude. Within the collapsed field, residual folds persist, and minute differences germinate anew. Structure does not break; it submerges into another stratum, pregnant with the intimation of reconfiguration. A solitary body revolves, distorts, and amplifies itself, enduring as a pleat that never fully disappears. Surpassing the contours of vision, the solo performance folds itself into the very interior of sensation.
About the WORKSHOP
A workshop designed to experientially explore the “folded axes” and the “equilibrium on the verge of collapse” articulated in the solo performance, include the authentic Butoh practice. Rather than seeking stability, they sustain a compressed state that hovers just short of collapse, rendering perceptible the tremors of latent internal layers. In the latter half, a single movement is unfolded into simultaneous trajectories, constructing an embodied image that is singular yet multiple through improvisation. Finally, control is released, and the group reflects on the moment when structure shifts into another stratum, tracing the process by which the body disseminates into space.
Date & Time:
23.05.2026:
13:00: AXIS / Resonant Torque (Performance)
Workshop Day 1: 15:00-20:00
24.05.2026: Workshop Day 2: 14:00-19:00
Venue:
Tanz*Hotel I Studio 1
Zirkusgasse 35, 1020 Wien
Fee:
Performance & Workshop: 130€
Performance only: 20€
Workshop only: 120€