{"title": "Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NYU Skirball", "address": "", "price": "USD 115", "price_from": "115.00", "price_to": "115.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance/butoh"], "description": "Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height is a dance work performed at NYU Skirball, running about 1 hour 15 minutes and open to all ages. It is the creation of Ushio Amagatsu, the Butoh master who shaped Sankai Juku for nearly fifty years, and was completed just before his death in 2024. TOTEM is his farewell: beneath a single monolithic form on stage, seven dancers move with shaved, chalked-white bodies, descending into gravity rather than resisting it. Carried by dancers who spent their lives inside his vision, it stands as a final testament from a company that has toured the world for half a century.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sankai-juku-totemvoid-and-height-66903/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/eac7761dee7574d947481a6a6684903e3dea760b8def9dc61665dffff2009888-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "NYU Skirball", "address": "", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "$80-$110", "price_from": "80.00", "price_to": "110.00", "tickets_url": "https://tickets.nyu.edu/overview/19143", "category": "dance", "tags": ["dance/butoh"], "description": "Sankai Juku: TOTEM—Void and Height is a butoh dance performance and the North American premiere of TOTEM, the final work of the Tokyo company Sankai Juku. It was directed, choreographed, and conceived by Ushio Amagatsu, who founded the company in 1975 and died in March 2024 shortly after completing the piece. A single monolithic form presides over the stage while seven dancers, their bodies shaved and chalked white, move in Amagatsu's idiom of descending into gravity rather than resisting it, in a work that runs one hour and fifteen minutes. The performance is danced by Semimaru, Sho Takeuchi, Akihito Ichihara, Dai Matsuoka, Norihito Ishii, Taiki Iwamoto, Makoto Takese, and Sotaro Ito, with music by Takashi Kako and Yochiro Yoshikawa.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/sankai-juku-totemvoid-and-height-55902/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/totem/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ca3229b90cf1aa81984e5d0c490e64b0c849c4f15a5928380d2a433448b520c-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Skirball Salon: On Butoh", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["dance/butoh"], "description": "Skirball Salon: On Butoh is a free panel discussion held in the NYU Skirball Lower Lobby. 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The company toured the world from 1980 onward, performing in more than forty countries.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/skirball-salon-on-butoh-71790/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/skirball-salon-on-butoh/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/19eb776435b4615a6b686fd0045b72050ea20aa6e96264a6db17a389cae222cd-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Workshop with Sankai Juku", "start": "2026-11-02T17:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/butoh"], "description": "A free public dance workshop titled \"Workshop with Sankai Juku\". It is led by Semimaru, a founding member of the Japanese butoh company Sankai Juku, and is co-sponsored by NYU's Center for Ballet & the Arts. The workshop takes place in advance of Sankai Juku's performances at NYU Skirball and asks what moves the body, exploring the connection between spirit and body through relaxation, tension, breathing, gravity and rhythm. It is held at the Center for Ballet and the Arts Studio, 16 Cooper Square.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/workshop-with-sankai-juku-55901/", "official_url": "https://nyuskirball.org/performance/workshop-with-sankai-juku/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/bbebc3437c89fd2c3ff042fbb6f04f06d9e9d807259661e20b12e4ea443683a1-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Just Keep Waiting", "start": "2026-11-04T19:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "The Tank", "address": "West 36th Street 312", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.thetanknyc.org/EventAvailability?EventId=169601", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "A dance performance in its fourth edition, staged at The Tank. It is created by choreographers Sara Pizzi, Aika Takeshima, and Katia Tubini with a cast of six dancers, scenography by Grady Shea, and lighting by Audrey Paige Robinson. The piece explores the shared human experience of waiting—for something to begin, to change, to arrive—through evocative physicality and emotional honesty. Developed across New York, Italy, and Japan, each edition evolves with its new place and performers, so the work exists only in the moment it is created.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/just-keep-waiting-56939/", "official_url": "https://thetanknyc.org/calendar-1/2026/10/5/justkeepwaiting", "image": "https://noky.io/images/607a8a14caf3eb3f2ab40044345dcff41035b5d47d49eff7612c09c1d5923b59-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$20 Early Bird (first 100 tickets), $30 General Admission, plus NY sales tax (8.875%), valid for bot", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "festivals-street", "tags": ["society/death"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC: The Art of Japanese Life and Death is a two-day festival at RESOBOX that brings together artists, thinkers, and makers from Japan and New York to explore life through the lens of death. It opens with a live encoffining ceremony by the nōkanshi Koki Kimura, who with his father served as technical advisor on the Academy Award–winning film Departures, alongside a calligraphy performance by Taisan Tanaka. Visitors can see an art exhibition by more than 20 Japanese artists and craftspeople, attend talks with a Zen teacher, a death doula, and a death-literacy researcher, try a coffin experience and write their own epitaph, and browse a marketplace of Japanese crafts, urns, and keepsakes. No knowledge of Japanese is needed and all are welcome, whatever their beliefs.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-the-art-of-japanese-life-and-death-55326/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/355990fa568d46df2b8aaebf4277de9b3ace42282b135df4b2bd6b5208a2fd53-2000.webp"}, {"title": "MASK OFF", "start": "2026-10-31T19:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Korean Cultural Center NY", "address": "East 32nd Street 122, 10016", "price": "FREE (Pre-registration is Required)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "\"MASK OFF\" is a contemporary Korean dance performance by the National Dance Company of Korea. Choreographer Lee Jae-hwa draws on talchum, Korea's traditional mask dance known for its satire and energetic physicality, reimagining it as a modern movement language that looks beyond ornate tradition to the breath, form and movement at its core. The music is composed and performed by geomungo artist Park Da-ul, and the synergy between the dancers delivers a surge of energy across the stage. 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It was created by sweat variant, the collaborative practice of Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born, and continues a speculative trilogy about one family's fractured ancestral memories. Set in a near-future United States, it follows a young woman taught she has no history worth remembering who begins receiving sudden transmissions, opening a multitude of imaginable futures. Running 1 hour 30 minutes with no intermission, the work places Black interiority at the center of an immersive experience at the crossroads of dance, theater, and visual art.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/adaku-part-2-she-shivers-with-it-51174/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/adaku2", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7d1960a9a12df5faf2af54f2950a34095c7e9f314d5c5f8c24049bd289f9058a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Turn. Turning. TURNT.", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "BAM Fisher (Fishman Space)", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $40", "price_from": "40.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "dance", "tags": ["stage/contemporary-dance"], "description": "Turn. Turning. TURNT. is a three-part evening of dance with Double Dutch jump roping, pulsing sound, and considered movement. It is choreographed and directed by Cynthia Oliver, a Bessie Award-winning choreographer and 2022 Guggenheim Fellow, with a cast of six contemporary dance artists. The works were made before, during, and after the 2020 global pandemic: Tether meditates on Black girls' creativity and play, Fallow depicts the pandemic's chaotic underbelly, and Summon. Sow. Reap. explores re-emergence from isolation through rhythm and spiritual patterning. It runs 1 hour 5 minutes with no intermission.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/turn-turning-turnt-51154/", "official_url": "https://www.bam.org/dance/2026/turn-turning-turnt", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1cc19240ec8f65cbff314ec3f8ca27e5773fd0f46e31843319baccbacd8017d7-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Memento Mori in NYC After Party: A Night to Celebrate Life", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-06T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Resobox", "address": "27th Street 41-26, 11101 Long Island City", "price": "$60 / person · food and drinks included", "price_from": "60.00", "price_to": "60.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "food-drink", "tags": ["food-drink/japanese", "occasion"], "description": "Memento Mori in NYC After Party: A Night to Celebrate Life is an evening that closes the two-day Memento Mori in NYC experience with a celebration of life. Japanese chef Daisuke Yamada, with over 25 years of experience in Japanese cuisine, has created an exclusive menu for the night, with Japanese food and drinks including Dassai BLUE, shochu, craft beer, and matcha. Koki Kimura, a professional nōkanshi (Japanese encoffinment ritual specialist), performs a special funeral ritual, and guests can also try the Coffin Experience. Speakers, performers, artists, and exhibitors from Memento Mori in NYC join the evening to reconnect, exchange ideas, and reflect on the past two days.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party-a-night-to-celebrate-life-55329/", "official_url": "https://resobox.com/event/memento-mori-in-nyc-after-party/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9f91184246d9b41757a8a87a0e079e4d4266bc1fae630abc5615b9b908ee58f4-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NYZ: Makko Ho - A 4-Week Journey to Better Health", "start": "2026-10-31T19:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-31T20:00:00-04:00", "place": "New York Zendo, 223 E 67th St, New York, NY, 10065", "address": "", "price": "$30.00 – $100.00", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": "100.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["religion/buddhist/zen", "wellness"], "description": "NYZ: Makko Ho – A 4-Week Journey to Better Health is a four-week series teaching Makko Ho, a traditional Japanese movement practice that improves flexibility, restores balance, and supports overall well-being. It is led by Kumiko Kanayama, who draws on more than 40 years of practicing and teaching Shiatsu, combining the practice with mindful breathing, meditation, tapping techniques, and Eastern medicine. Each week participants practice the complete Makko Ho sequence for all twelve meridians while exploring one of the Five Elements in greater depth through movement and discussion. More than an exercise class, the series is an introduction to the philosophy of Japanese Shiatsu, Eastern medicine, and Zen practice, treating the movements as a moving meditation that cultivates awareness, balance, and inner peace.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nyz-makko-ho-a-4-week-journey-to-better-health-57618/", "official_url": "https://zenstudies.org/event/nyz-makko-ho-a-4-week-journey-to-better-health/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4788bb6da72887648494824d053fecff8320da54dcf2dd2607a1de68f1ad611a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop", "start": "2026-10-31T12:30:00-04:00", "end": null, "place": "Dixon Place", "address": "Chrystie Street 161A, 10002", "price": "$20 in advance, $25 at the door", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "25.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/35526", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "occasion/halloween", "dance"], "description": "NYC Drawing the Dance Workshop is an in-person drawing session at Dixon Place Theater where artists sketch a dancer who moves slowly and holds poses of increasing length. It is organized by Creative Performances and presented by Dixon Place Theater, with dancer Rebekah Sharples Schmidt as the model. The Halloween/Trick or Treat themed session lasts about two hours with a ten-minute costume-change break. Artists bring their own materials, keep their own drawings, and no instruction is provided.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/nyc-drawing-the-dance-workshop-52281/", "official_url": "https://dixonplace.org/performances/nyc-drawing-the-dance-workshop-10-31-26/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f9b645f01087e1889fdb987dab69a0beff7cc1dfe9069e8bdc2fc55c5aaf2adc-600.webp"}, {"title": "Gallery Opening Reception: The New York Town Musicians by Hikaru Yamamoto", "start": "2026-11-04T18:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-04T21:00:00-05:00", "place": "Kato Sake Works", "address": "Troutman Street 379, 11237 Brooklyn", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.katosakeworks.com/events/book-club-nov26", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/contemporary"], "description": "An opening reception for a new gallery show at Kato Sake Works. The exhibition, The New York Town Musicians, is a solo show by the artist Hikaru Yamamoto.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/gallery-opening-reception-the-new-york-town-musicians-by-hik-71366/", "official_url": "https://www.katosakeworks.com/events/gallery-june-aacdc", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ff09df84290112ea590b2ed59c20a253e2f5e22447fbeb2d3fb042958aedebec-2000.webp"}]}