“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

“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