{"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", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-02T17:30:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Skirball Center for the Performing Arts", "address": "LaGuardia Place 566", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"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. It brings together André Lepecki (NYU), Katherine Profeta (Yale) and Yoko Shioya (Japan Society) for a conversation on Sankai Juku's history, legacy, and future. Sankai Juku is a butoh company founded by Ushio Amagatsu in Tokyo in 1975, known for a refined 'second-generation' butoh he described as a dialogue with gravity. 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": "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"}, {"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": "Open Movement – Fall 2026", "start": "2026-10-04T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-12-13T00:00:00-05:00", "place": "Performance Space 122", "address": "1st Avenue 150, 10009", "price": "Free with RSVP / pay what you can", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["dance/movement-dance"], "description": "Open Movement – Fall 2026 is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience, held in the theater and offering space for self-guided movement practice along with artist-led workshops. It is curated and organized by Monica Mirabile and hosted by Performance Space New York. Participants may move however they choose—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, or observing—and past attendees describe it as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and grounding towards personal and collective practices. This season also features workshops by artists including Eartheater's child (Nova Harlem), Dorchel Haqq, Charmaine Bee, Andros Zins-Browne, Sophie Ortiz, Gillian Walsh, Sigrid Lauren, and Viva Ruiz, alongside Works In Progress showings by Cristina Moya-Palacios and Viva Soudan.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/open-movement-fall-2026-54719/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/41dcde7a9d71b58bd25d912ebe98c7c8d13f23e2a18cd61bc292e180bd820fa3-1200.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"}]}