“Part Marcel Marceau, part Mick Jagger, Kasai would leap into the air but start another step before landing… his low groans and high sighs all seemed part of a kind of existential fun.” Dance Magazine

“Yuko Kaseki is the Ginger Rogers of Butoh. Time speeds up and then slows, and childlike play and sexual prowess whirl around with humor either wry or raucous.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

“Yuko Kaseki is the Ginger Rogers of Butoh. Time speeds up and then slows, and childlike play and sexual prowess whirl around with humor either wry or raucous.” San Francisco Bay Guardian

“‘Quick Silver” was full of piercing accuracy. With a prizefighter’s grace, he darted from spot to spot, collapsing backward onto the stage only to spring up in a mercuric flash.” – Gia Kourlas, The New York Times

“Murobushi’s Butoh is a theatre of revulsion, convulsion or repulsion. The body is like a half-monkey, half-reptile. It recurves and always crawls on the round, full of violent energy, soft, anti-human, and cannibal. There is no form of Occidental physical naturalism.” – Jean Baudrillard, Theatre of Revulsion

“Musilova hangs upside down from a swath of fabric in Loud. Heavy machinery sounds blare and a bare light bulb dangles, sputtering on and off as Musilova, in a tight red top, hangs motionless, her eyes possessed. She gallops and rolls wildly and incessantly across the floor, kicking and...Continued

“Irem Calikusu and Denisa Musilova offered the most captivating performances. In Calikusu’s Texture II, a block of ice hangs in the dark and drips over her naked bent body. She jolts intermittently, as if involuntarily, and slowly, brokenly unfurls. She’s like an insect trapped in a glacier.” – Erika...Continued