ABSTRACT
Amagatsu Ushio, the founder and artistic director of Sankai Juku, is an artist who ruminates through the process of sedimentation: dripping and dropping superfluous thoughts. Quotidian aesthetics and social topicalities have never seeped into the theatrical cosmogony of Sankai Juku. Isolated from the everyday world, yet not entering the realm of spiritual mumbo jumbo, Sankai Juku has managed to speak to the audiences of more than seven hundred cities across the globe. In Unetsu, or, in fact, in all works of Sankai Juku, there is no linear structure of narratives; thus, a certain moment does not become obsolete with the passing of time. In contrast, in the artworks of Sankai Juku, time is a sequence of oscillations between what many modern people think as opposite temporal archetypes such as "night and day, winter and summer, drought and flood, age and youth, life and death".
