Choreography / Performance : Conan Amok
Composer : Hurleyzone Amida
Costume : Maya Shibasaki
Première: April 30, 2026 ‒ Espace Culturel Bertin Poirée (Paris)
Duration: 40-Minute

𝗔𝗫𝗜𝗦 / 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗧𝗼𝗿𝗾𝘂𝗲 does not present a completed form.
It sustains the trembling state where structure, collapse, and reconfiguration coexist
transforming theatre into an interior space of sensation.
A single body stands still, its multiple axes folded inward. Beneath the surface image of stability, invisible pleats accumulate in layered strata, harboring the torsion of forces held in
suspension. A slight deviation of angle propagates from pelvis to thoracic cage, from shoulders to head, quietly prying open the latent layers within. Breath and gaze no longer coincide;
each descends to a different depth, inverting interior and exterior.

𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁:
“AXIS / Resonant Torque” is an attempt to present the body not as form, but as a bundle of sustained forces. In this work, the body exists prior to emerging as image as a field in which
multiple axes already interfere with one another. The concept of the “Multi Layered Body,” proposed by Conan Amok, unfolds here not as theory but as a physical event, articulated directly on stage. Torque, the central principle of the piece, is both the force that generates rotation and the continuous pressure that distorts equilibrium from within. The opening configuration, a single body standing still while folding multiple axes into itself, does not present stability, but a state of compression that already contains collapse. The “static image” perceived by the audience is merely the surface of a mechanical tension that continues to orbit internally without rest.

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𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝗼𝗸 is a choreographer, artist, and body researcher who proposes “Multi Layered Body,” redefining the body as a field of forces. From 2008, he spent eleven years with
Dairakudakan under Akaji Maro, fully embodying and later deconstructing butoh methodology. Crossing dance, Butoh, and art, he developed an original bodily theory that views the body not as a medium of expression but as a generative structure where gravity, pressure, friction, and torque intersect. He systematized a theory of interacting muscular, neural, mnemonic, and spatial layers that produce intensity. His works reject narrative and expose processes such as compression, threshold, phase transition, collapse, and re-sedimentation. Moving beyond
stylistic codes or exoticism, he pursues a contemporary ontology of the body, designing conditions between stability and collapse through performance and research.

The performance is produced in partnership with Cinema Arta and Planetarium Café.

𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀:
https://eventbook.ro/theater/bilete-axis-resonant-torque