director of the Butoh-Center MAMU and the Butoh-Festivals MAMU in Göttingen - embodies in the truest sense of that word the wisdom of both, the Western and Oriental dance and theatre traditions.
His repertory includes No theatre, Kabuki and Butoh, as well as the traditional forms of Occidental theatre, which he studied at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna.
In this synthesis of worldwide traditions, T. Endo transcends the boundaries of each, although Butoh's trancelike absorption into oneself continues to be visible as the starting point of his movement.
In his extraordinary dances, T. Endo succeeds to express the field of tension between Ying and Yang, the male and female and their ever lasting alteration. He uses the suggestive power of concentrated movement phrases to explore the closure of life's cycles. He opens up a voide space which can be either calming or irritating, and in the experience of which the observer submerges him-/herself into a world beyond time and words: that is MA.

MA in ZEN-Buddhism means "emptyness" and "space between the things". Butoh MA is the way to make the unvisible visible. The minimum of movements lets the expression of feelings and situations grow to highest intensity. It is more important to keep the balance between energy, tension and control, than to care for the ethetics of the movements. MA means to be IN BETWEEN.
MA is the moment just at the end of a movement and before the beginning of the next one.
MA is like standing on the riverside watching the water floating along. You want to reach the other side but the other side means death. You want to finish your life on this side but not yet, you are half here and half over there. Your soul is waiting for the last step - completely calm - without breathing - completely quiet - not dead and not alive - this is MA.

What does it mean - MAMU?
MAMU is the combination of the two words in Zen-buddism Ma and Mu
MA - means space in between
MU - the big emptiness

But the sound of MAMU seems to be like the first word of a baby.