Open-Air Butoh Performance
SEHPURPUR
This production marked the conclusion of the series “20 Years of 4RUDE,” which, from October 2025 onwards, presented different facets of 4RUDE’s work through monthly performances at Studio2 in Berlin.
“Sehpurpur” was an open-air Butoh performance unfolding in the transition from day to night. Inspired by a passage from the poetry of Paul Celan, thoughts on visibility, distance, and the impossibility of ever truly reaching another person became intertwined with our own questions about perception and the body.
In a world where violence, destruction, and exclusion are often seen from a safe distance, the Butoh body exposes itself to this distance. It becomes visible, falls apart, grows weary, and transforms — and yet continues to perceive.
Artistic Director / Concept / Choreography / Director:
Hikaru Inagawa
Concept / Choreography / Costumes:
Maco
Performance:
Maco
Hikaru Inagawa
Rareș Grozea
Adina Mohr
Yoshihiro Shimomura
Julia Kühn
Yaz
Sound:
Tara Hanajima Pellegatta, Hikaru Inagawa
Lighting design:
Hikaru Inagawa
Lighting and sound operation:
Tara Hanajima Pellegatta
Video documentation:
Mediathek für Tanz und Theater des ITI
Production: 4RUDE
Cooperation:
Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Nationalgalerie
Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
With the support of:
Studio2 des ITI, Berlin
Rehearsal rooms:
Theaterhaus Berlin
gefördert vom Kulturbeirat Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf
65 Min.
Premiere
5, 6 September 2026, 20:00
at Courtyard of the Sammlung Scharf-Gerstenberg, Berlin
