Shibari Performance: Hiatus

Hiatus was the final performance presented in the former Karada House space, which closed at the end of February 2022. Marking an ending, a temporary rupture, a moment of transition.

The term hiatus describes a gap: a break in geological layers, or the meeting of two vowels that cannot be merged without space between them. In this performance, the hiatus is not an absence, but a charged interval. It carries memory, resonance, and the imprint of what once took place. The space lingers as an echo of ritual, self-discovery, conflict, and reconciliation — a heterotopia for those who had nowhere else to simply be.

Inspired by Butoh, Renée de Sans‘ performance unfolds slowly and deliberately, grounding the body in weight, stillness, and transformation. Movement emerges from loss and attachment alike, articulating grief, gratitude, and release. A farewell not only to a physical location, but to a shared container of becoming.

The sentence remains suspended, like the performance itself, between holding on and letting go.

Filming, Choreography & Performance by Renée de Sans