RESPIRA (eucademix, Azumi O E, Waldo Walle)

Respira is a performance rooted in the Japanese dance tradition of Butoh, reimagined through a contemporary and sensory lens.

It tells the story of visceral, breathing, carbon-based humans standing at the threshold of our electric future.

Sometimes the movement unfolds in glacial stillness—so slow it feels like time has liquefied.

Other times it surges with speed and urgency, like a current awakening the body.

In these oscillations between motion and stillness, the boundary between performer and audience begins to dissolve.

Breath becomes shared. Silence becomes sound. The room becomes alive.

Originating in postwar Japan, Butoh defied conventions of dance, beauty, and expression. It embraced the grotesque and the sacred, the absurd and the sublime, often performed in white body makeup and with extreme, hyper-controlled motion.

Respira inherits that spirit of transformation and reinvention—continuing Butoh’s legacy of resisting definition while imagining new forms of being human in a technologically entangled world.