Marcos Morau’s new creation draws on Yukio Mishima’s The Temple of the Golden Pavilion and the structure of Japanese puppet theatre, Bunraku. The work brings dancers and puppets into a shared space where the boundary between life and artifice begins to dissolve. At the centre of Mishima’s novel lies a radical proposition: that beauty, pursued to its absolute limit, contains the seed of destruction. Morau focuses on the moment when the distinction between puppet and human blurs — when it becomes uncertain which body holds life, and which merely performs it.
On stage, dancers, actors, puppets and singers coexist as equal presences. At times, puppets appear animated; at others, humans take on an object-like stillness. Beauty and destruction, life and artifice, continuously exchange places.
Not a reconstruction of tradition, but a contemporary reconfiguration of its logic — a Bunraku for our time.

Direction & Choreography: Marcos Morau
Dramaturg: Roberto Fratini
Music & Live Vocals: Maria Arnal
Set Design: Max Glaenzel
Costume Design: Silvia Delagneau
Japanese Traditional Dance Direction：Tokuyo Azuma(Kazutaro Nakamura), Genkurou Hanayagi
Takemoto-bushi Composition: Shinji Tsuruzawa
Performed by the Takemoto Ensemble
Rehearsal Director: Ryu Suzuki
Concept by Taiju Takano (Bunkamura)

Bunraku Puppeteers: Tamasuke Yoshida/Minoshirō Yoshida/Tamanobu Yoshida
Kabuki Actors: Kazutaro Nakamura/Maholo Onoe
Dancers: Koh Suenaga
Achille De Groeve/Ignacio Fizona/Zander Constant/Shaked Heller/Jeongik Jo/Pol Vázquez Burgos/Lorenzo Cimarelli