Photo of the world premiere of Resonant Void, taken by Tomoko Kosugi at Suisei Gallery, Nakano, Tokyo on the 29/12/2024

Resonant Void is a Butoh-inspired solo performance exploring the space between birth and dissolution, presence and disappearance, and the hidden emotional landscapes of the body.

“Intimate, delicate, visually stunning.”
— Brighton Fringe Review

“A ritual, a pure enigmatic moment where time does stand still.”
— Brighton Fringe Review

“Visually sparse yet emotionally charged.”
— FringeReview UK

“The images do not describe transformation. They enact it.”
— FringeReview UK

Developed in Tokyo in collaboration with Japanese Butoh artist Motoya Kondo, Yuko Kawamoto, and Minoru Hideshima, and dramaturg Conan Amok, and teachers such as Daisuke Yoshimoto, Yumiko Yoshioka, Marie-Gabrielle Rothie, Yumino Seki and Seisaku, the work immerses audiences in a stark, minimal world shaped by membrane-like materials such as mosquito netting and plastic sheeting. These objects become barriers, wombs, thresholds, and skins—surfaces through which the performer emerges, retreats, and transforms.

Drawing from Butoh’s traditions of slowness, intensity, and emotional excavation, alongside elements of performance art, somatic practice, and physical theatre, the piece moves through trembling stillness, creaturely transformation, and ritual-like gesture.

Visually sparse yet emotionally charged, Resonant Void invites audiences to witness what often remains unseen: inner movements of feeling, thresholds between identities, and the quiet force of becoming.

A contemplative and immersive work bridging Japanese Butoh sensibilities with a contemporary European perspective.

Minimal, intimate, and non-verbal, Resonant Void invites audiences into a close-up encounter with presence, fragmentation, and emergence. This is a rare chance to experience contemporary Butoh in a UK context.

Diggers Leith (Upstairs room)

7 Bernard Street

Edinburgh, Scotland, EH6 6PW

Venue 141

Daily 8-30 August

14:30 55min

Free (donations are welcome)

Selected Performances with Live Improvised Music

On selected dates throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, resonant void will be performed with a unique live improvised score by some of Scotland's outstanding musicians. Each collaboration creates a one-off dialogue between music and movement, making every performance distinct.

• 10 & 12 August – Anne Wood (Cauld Blast Orchestra)

• 13 & 18 August – Mairi Campbell

• 22 August – Marsailidh Groat & Kathy Chow (Cianalas Duo)

• 26 & 30 August – David Francis (The Cast)

All other performances feature the original score by Keita Miyano. No two performances of resonant void are exactly the same.

Part of the PBH Free Fringe and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals 2026