Butoh dancer Yang Jong-ye summons the unknown self we hide

Inside every person, Yang Jong-ye believes, lies a house with countless rooms.

One is left untouched, sealed beneath layers of dust and cobwebs.

Behind its door waits another self — one we have hidden even from ourselves.

With her latest award-winning piece, "Summoning the Unknown X," choreographer and butoh dancer Yang opens that door.

The work, which won the grand prize at this year's SAI Dance Festival in Tokyo, excavates the contradictions buried beneath ordinary life, confronting the self t ...