“The New York Butoh Festival—the Butoh-Kan Phase, organized by CAVE Arts Space in Williamsburg, brought a refreshingly stark contrast into this city’s dance scene for three weeks in October and November. While previous festivals focused on presenting butoh masters only, the Fourth Biennial celebrated the culmination of CAVE’s two-year...Continued

“Yoshimoto’s Ruined Body at DNA takes us around different dark corners as it stretches time and some nerves as well. He appears painted white, with blue eye shadow, red lips, and a spray of gray hair, in a magnificent tapestried paper cloak with Renaissance ruffle. The candle he holds...Continued

“The New York Butoh Festival—the Butoh-Kan Phase, organized by CAVE Arts Space in Williamsburg, brought a refreshingly stark contrast into this city’s dance scene for three weeks in October and November. While previous festivals focused on presenting butoh masters only, the Fourth Biennial celebrated the culmination of CAVE’s two-year...Continued

“The New York Butoh Festival—the Butoh-Kan Phase, organized by CAVE Arts Space in Williamsburg, brought a refreshingly stark contrast into this city’s dance scene for three weeks in October and November. While previous festivals focused on presenting butoh masters only, the Fourth Biennial celebrated the culmination of CAVE’s two-year...Continued

“In ‘Quick Silver,’ Mr. Murobushi does indeed show an extensive ability to move extremely slowly or extremely fast, to hold a position for a length of time and then change it by infinitesimal motion. And he conforms to other notions about Butoh: for much of the solo he is...Continued

“In ‘Quick Silver,’ Mr. Murobushi does indeed show an extensive ability to move extremely slowly or extremely fast, to hold a position for a length of time and then change it by infinitesimal motion. And he conforms to other notions about Butoh: for much of the solo he is...Continued

“She is simply breathtaking, possessing a supple body that seems to have no spine, yet is anchored on a steel spike of consummate control. She is inspired by the natural elements, and her slow, methodical, yet radiantly beautiful explorations of physicality take her dance to a higher plane.” –...Continued

“…his long gray hair fanned around his wild, heavily made-up eyes, and his body became a heaving, hyperarticulated landscape shifting against jarringly spliced music. It was easy to forget that this spooky, otherworldly creature was human.” Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times

“In his dance Yoshimoto continuously transforms himself; he suddenly changes into a young man, then becomes a baby, and in a second later a wild animal raging onstage with incredible determination and vitality…” – Dziennik Zachodni, Poland