BAM Affiliation Founded by butoh innovator Ushio Amagatsu in 1975, Sankai Juku have performed in over 700 cities across the world. Since the early 1980s, Théâtre de la Ville in Paris has commissioned 13 new pieces for the ensemble. Sankai Juku first performed at BAM's Next Wave Festival in 1996 with Yuragi: In a Space of Perpetual Motion, and they have returned three times since.