Arts: At the still point of the turning world On Japanese dancer Saburo Teshigawara's first appearance in Britain, he stamped panes of glass into dust. By contrast, his latest work, Absolute Zero, goes in search of perfect stillness.

The Independent - London | May 12, 2000| | Copyright

For a nation producing most of the world's technology, the Japanese do a good job of connecting with the simple truths of nature. Scratch a Japanese artist's modish exterior and you are likely to find a cleansingly reductionist sensibility paying homage to the elements; to the dryness of sand or the purity of light. Perhaps that is what comes of living on an unstable portion of the earth's crust, agitated by volcanic forces and surrounded by sea. Whatever the reason, it is a mindset that is shared by Saburo Teshigawara, a small 47-year-old with rubber bones when he moves and a Renaissance ...

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