Performing art stagecraft woven from music, image & motion
Circo de Sastre (仕立て屋のサーカス) is a boundary-crossing stage performance group led by musician Daiho Soga and composed of artists and creatives from diverse fields. Like a tailor carefully stitching together fabric, they craft immersive, poetic spaces where live music, costume, projection, and lighting blend into a single expressive body.
Since their debut in 2014, Circo de Sastre has captivated audiences across Japan—including at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa and the Kanagawa Arts Theatre—as well as abroad in France, Spain, and Indonesia. Their performances transcend conventional categories, often in collaboration with anthropologists, filmmakers, curators, publishers, and local governments.
Their latest work, Cut the Fish, will be performed at WMDF. Layered with dreamlike visual projections, this piece premiered at KYOTOPHONIE 2023 and received acclaim for its deeply moving and genre-defying impact. Expect a surreal, cinematic experience that conjures distant landscapes and stirs the memory with a beauty beyond explanation.