“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

“ATK doesn’t aim to abide by all butoh’s rules and incorporates other elements. One is wonderful music that includes harmonic singing by the large cast of dancer/singers and live saxophone and percussion by Jeremy Slater and Gregory Reynolds. The recorded soundscape includes music by Bloody Panda and Bryan Camphire....Continued

“Jerome Bel and Pichet Klunchun couldn’t have less in common if they tried. One is a conceptual French choreographer, the other a traditional Thai dancer. In ”Pichet Klunchun and Myself”, the pair face each other on a bare stage – just two men sitting on the floor with a...Continued

“A solo by Atsushi Takenouchi, which opened a week of pro­grams at Cave, was something of a surprise. What made the 90 minute event come alive was not so much Mr. Takenouchi’s piece, “Skin: Improvisation No. I,” but the ambient or unplanned effects that accompanied it. Audiences filing into...Continued

“Still, the most invincible performance remains Eiko and Kama’s “Mourning” collaboration with the avant-garde pianist Margaret Leng Tan. Eiko and Koma, who studied with both Hijiknta and Mr. Ohno and have been working in New York since the 70s, choose not to label their art as Butoh. In the...Continued

“More impressive was a series of solo performances last weekend. Atsushi Takenouchi, whose body was caked with clay, explored the natural world in “Kizamu.” Denise Fujiwara played a ravaged mother who loses her child in Natsu Nakajima’s “Sumida River.” Taketeru Kudo was a scraggly creature in “Go-Znrashi,” and Takuya...Continued

Ms. Garnica, a Colombian artist, also presented “A Time­less Kaidan,” a three-part work featuring video and installation by Mr. Moriya. Referring to the Japanese word kaidan, which can mean scary story or staircase, the production “is a metaphor for my reflection to the staircase of human ambition,” as Ms....Continued