LEIMAY LUDUS Lab with Guest Butoh Teacher Dai Matsuoka
Dai Matsuoka
LEIMAY: GUEST TEACHER SERIES 2025
LEIMAY was honored to welcome Dai Matsuoka — Butoh dancer with the renowned Sankai Juku Company and director of LAND FES and Butoh Choreo Lab — for a special Butoh Master Class at CAVE.
For over four decades, Sankai Juku has cultivated a unique training method rooted in the interplay of tension and release. Drawing from this legacy, Dai Matsuoka leads participants through body-awareness practices, elemental Butoh choreography, and exercises designed to spark imagination, communication, and embodied expression. His approach opens pathways for artists to move beyond the conventional boundaries of Butoh and discover new creative possibilities.
Documentation
Object Identifier
AMP.EDU.2025.6000.5Year Created
2025Date Created
20251002Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
CAVE Home Of LEIMAY58 Grand Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NYC
Workshop led by Dai Matsuoka
Documentation by Benja Thompson
LEIMAY gratefully acknowledges the support of Ras Dia and Vision Into Art in making this Master Class possible
LEIMAY is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. And the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, the Mellon Foundation and many generous contributions from individual donors.
LEIMAY’s works, community, and coalition programs are supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. And by Creative Capital, the National Performance Network (NPN); and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.
