Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA

Sankai Juku was created in 1975 under the direction of Ushio Amagatsu who belongs to the second generation of butoh dancers. The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA presents "Umusuna: Memories Before History," an impressive rendering of the creation of the earth in which the company takes up the challenge of materializing a vision which has been haunting humankind ever since its beginning – the mystery of the creation of the world. The story of the genesis, spanning over eons and contracted in a moment of artistic insight ends with all the dancers in fetal position.