Sutra - with Monks from the Shaolin Temple

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 07:30 pm UTC-07:00

The Granada Theatre Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara

UCSB Arts & Lectures
Publisher/HostUCSB Arts & Lectures
Sutra - with Monks from the Shaolin Temple
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Contemporary dance and ancient martial arts combine in this award-winning collaboration between Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, sculptor Antony Gormley, composer Szymon Brzóska, and 20 Buddhist monks from the Shaolin Temple in China’s Henan Province. Sutra is a breathtaking spectacle which explores the Shaolin kung fu tradition in a contemporary context. A cadre of monks perform flying kicks, backflips and shadow-boxing in a humorous fable about a European outsider entering their monastery. With clever set design and a specially-commissioned score, Sutra has been called “a brave, thrilling, elliptical piece” and an “odyssey into the mind of a Zen Buddhist” (The Telegraph, U.K.).
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The Granada Theatre Santa Barbara, 1214 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101-2608, United States

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