Introduction Throughout its history, art has always reacted to the key events in the world. Every situation of crisis leads to some shifts in people’s lives. Moreover, catastrophic accidents take lives and ruin families, leaving indelible imprints in history. Such a disaster happened in Japan in 2011, when a massive earthquake destroyed a big part of the territory causing fatal outcomes for many. The choreographers at Phantom Limb Company commemorated that horrible page in Japan’s history with a dancing performance under the title “Falling Out.” It is a masterful combination of the theme of earthquake and tsunami and a dramatic theme of breaking up, where love, death, and fate intertwine. The choreographers created a masterpiece that resembles an intersection of the Japanese slow butoh dancing style and a rhythmic and impulsive flex dance complemented with puppet theatre. The theatrical performance embraces diversity in styles and themes to deliver the message of death and loss under the crucial power of Mother Nature that a human cannot withstand. Fukushima Events as the Background for Artistic Work The aftermath of an event that shook the world is still relevant. On March 11, 2011, in Japan, there was one of the strongest earthquakes in the history of the country, which killed 18 thousand people and led to the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power station (Iwata-Weickgenannt and Geilhorn 18). Thousands of victims were buried under the ruins of buildings. It was one of the major nuclear disasters in the world that forced more than one hundred thousand people to leave their homes. The amount of accurate data collected upon the disaster enabled getting a full picture of the past events (Iwata-Weickgenannt and Geilhorn 25). It also illustrated the magnitude of the accident, as well as the impact it had on the people of Japan. The understanding of the fatal events enabled the creators of “Falling Out” to seek for the possible ways to manifest the theme of fate and death. They utilized diverse dancing styles and staging techniques to render the perception of human life in its collision with natural forces. Butoh as a Unique Dancing Style The core of this choreographic performance is a Japanese butoh dancing style. It originated not long after the World War II and is a contemporary Japanese dancing style combining “a variety of styles from folk dances and traditional dance-drama genres” to ballet, modern, and postmodern dance (“Butoh” 17). Throughout the history of its existence, butoh has gone through different stylistic phases and developed into its modern form. The most influential wave in this dance was Hijikata’s butoh that used “emaciated bodies,” pale make-up, shaved heads, and kimono costumes, which all created an overall mysterious performance (“Butoh” 17). Later, Kasai incorporated eurhythmics into butoh, making it a complete form with a distinctive shape and movements (“Butoh” 18). The contemporary version of this dancing style embraces these two major waves and is capable of rendering emotion and tragedy on the stage. Flex Dance Features Contrary to butoh, flexing represents a new more rhythmic dancing form. It has originated as a street dance and has distinctive features embodied in sudden movements of the body. It is a “rough and immediate” dance form with the elements of “stop motion” that contrast with the butoh style to a great