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Dear Friends,
I am participating a group exhibition at Watermill Brooklyn Gallery, in DUMBO. Opening reception is on 1st of October. Please stop by if you could. Detail info is below.
Also, CAVE is going to have 4th NY Butoh Festival. And deadline for special tuition registration is coming up. Do not miss it! Detail info is also below. Or you can check it at our website @
http://nybf09.caveartspace.org/
Best Wishes,
Shige
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International masters Yuko Kaseki, Ko Murobushi, Mari Osanai and Daisuke Yoshimoto will offer intensive and short Butoh training in NYC from October 23 to November 25, 2009 as part of the “Fourth CAVE New York Butoh Festival — Butoh-Kan Phase.”
CAVE provides rigorous physical training and enriches students with first person contact with international masters. This makes it a unique platform for the development of local dancers.
Special tuition for early registration is now extended! Workshops will take place at CAVE, 58 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Many of the noted Butoh masters who are teaching will also be performing throughout the Festival, which also has coinciding performance events at Dixon Place and Dance New Amsterdam, which are both in Manhattan.
Yuko Kaseki, photo by Piotr Redlinkski
Yuko Kaseki, who will teach both an intensive and an introductory workshop, is a freelance dancer and choreographer living in Berlin. She was the principal dancer in Anzu Furukawa’s company, Dance Butter Tokio, and Verwandlungsa from 1989-2001. The intensive workshop is a one week course from October 23-October 31 and his introductory course will occur on November 6, 7, and 8.
Ko Murobushi, photo by Dola Baroni
Ko Murobushi trained and performed with one of the creators and greatest performers of Butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata, and was a founding member of Dairakudakan, the largest and longest-running Butoh company in Japan. His influential group, Ariadone,introduced Europe to Butoh in 1978. Based in Japan, he tours internationally throughout Europe and South America.. In his workshops, he strongly emphasizes the connection of the breath and body. Murobushi will teach a pair of two-day introductory workshops on November 8 and 9 and November 10 and 11.
Mari Osani, photo courtesy of artist
Mari Osanai trained in Classical Ballet, Noguchi Gymnastics, Yoga, Tai Chi and Hip Hop. Her unique movements are realized through interweaving these diverse techniques. The philosophy and practice of Noguchi Gymnastics has had a strong influence on her creations. She will teach an introductory workshop on November 12, 13 & 14 and an intensive course from November 16 to 25.
Daisuke Yoshimoto, photo by Tommy Bay
Daisuke Yoshimoto has collaborated with Kazuo Ohno, Hisayo Iwaki and Shoji Kojima. Primarily a solo artist, over the past 20 years he has carved out his own unique and theatrical style, working as creator and director of progressive plays for many years before he established his dance studio, “Ultraego.” His pair of three-day introductory workshops will be on November 11, 12 & 13 and November 16, 17 & 18.
For more information and for details on discounts, please visit www.nybf09.caveartspace.org, email at training@caveartspace.org or call 212-561-7320.
The Festival will also include a series of noteworthy performances. “Furnace,” a collaborative Butoh dance work commissioned by the Festival, will debut at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street (between Rivington and Delancey), November 5 to 8. A program of three performances, collectively titled “NY Butoh-Kan Masters,” will be presented at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway (at Chambers St.), November 12-15. The festival’s NY Emerging Artist Series, with two programs of short performance works, will be presented at CAVE, 58 Grand Street (Brooklyn), November 20-22. This series headlines artists who have been participants in CAVE’s Butoh-Kan training program. It gives festival audiences the opportunity to see their work along with that of artists in the larger international Butoh movement. For complete schedule and ticket info, visit the festival website at www.nybf09.caveartspace.org.
There will be a festival benefit exhibition, “Body As A Medium: NY Butoh Festival & NY Butoh-Kan Retrospective,” which will travel with the festival through all three of its venues: Dixon Place, Dance New Amsterdam and CAVE. A silent auction with photos and videos taking during the first three NY Butoh Festivals (2003, 2005 and 2007) will raise funds to pay travel fees for the international artists and for the general operating cost of the festival.
The New York Butoh Festival is a program of CAVE Organization (www.CAVEartspace.org), one of the longest running experimental art spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since 1996, it has produced hundreds of art exhibitions, multi-media installations and performances. A not-for-profit organization, it functions as an artist-in-residence studio and performance space. This year’s international butoh-kan master series is co-produced by Dance New Amsterdam DNA, a major contemporary dance center that present and promotes artistic excellence in dance performance, education and the creation process . And this year’s festival commission is co-presented by Dixon Place, a home for performing and literary artists dedicated to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance and literature.
