Red Fish in the Snow
A Dance Performance by Pinar Sinka
Butoh, a type of Japanese dance theater came on the scene in 1959 and over the decades has grown beyond Japan and onto the international scene. Join us for an evening of this unique Avant-garde dance performed by Butoh performer Pinar Sinka.
“My performance, Red Fish in the Snow, is a Butoh journey that bears witness to death while moving along a threshold beyond it. It exists in the delicate, trembling space between disappearance and rebirth. The body, growing quiet and heavy, unravels in the darkness and ultimately yields to the soft stillness of profound calm. Beneath the falling snow, covered by a white shroud, a red fish stirs like the pulse of a life remembering, reviving, and beginning a new.
The red fish is a symbol of rebirth. The end of life opens toward the redness of fertility and the endless flow of the life cycle. This performance invites the audience to consider death not as an absolute end, but as a transformative passage. What is death? What do we feel when confronted with it? Do we ever truly die?” – Pinar Sinka
Details
Date
- Friday, March 27, 2026
Time
- 7:00pm
Price
- $20 (Members $15)
Location
- Morikami Theater
Doors open at 6 pm. Seating is first-come, first-served. Our theater tends to be cold. You may want to bring with you a sweater or jacket.
Meet the Dancer
Pinar Sinka is a Butoh performer, visual artist, curator, and the founder and artistic director of PIArtButoh (the first Butoh organization in South Florida.) PIArtButoh is a well-established organization in the Butoh dance world, bridging international and local art disciplines and contributing to the global development and evolution of the Butoh art form. Sinka trained under Japanese Butoh masters Yukio Waguri, Yoshito Ohno, and Tetsuro Fukuhara in Japan and Malaysia, and has also worked as both a performer and curator with the modern Butoh company Tokyo Space Dance. Since 2013, she has been performing Butoh across Asia, Europe, and Florida in the United States, while also offering workshops and seminars to share and expand the practice of Butoh.
