Beauty, eroticism, and death become indistinguishable as Béjart reaches deep into the mind of Japan's most contested writer. A schoolboy stands before the sea as four numbered selves split from his body: Ichi (1), Ni (2), San (3), Shi (the Japanese word 4 and for death). hey spread, orbit, then begin to close. Scenes from "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion," "Confessions of a Mask," and "The S...
