“It was a great experience when I had my workshop residency at CAVE. The best thing about it was the cross-cultural aspect because students are coming from all over the world. I believe this program has been seeding and soon a new generation of performers will come. For me, it was nice challenge to have workshop, creative process and performance together.” – Yukio Suzuki, LUDUS Guest Teacher
Testimonial – Imre Thormann
“When I entered CAVE for the first time, I was very surprised to find the theater totally in white. Especially in contradiction to the darkness in the rest of the space, but after staying a while I figured out that it reflects a perfect power generation machine, creating art. A fruitful place living out of its antagonism.” – Imre Thormann, LUDUS Guest Teacher
Testimonial – Julie Spodek
“From the first time I experienced CAVE’S Programs of classes and workshops, and community, I was enveloped in an atmosphere of depth, soulfulness, earnest inquiry, abundant creative thinking, seriousness, and professionalism to a degree that I had encountered almost nowhere before. Through CAVE my movement life and performance life were born. I was introduced to a new approach of movement, and “dance”, I was introduced to a new way of being in relationship with my body, and the forces of gravity, space and time. I was given the opportunity to be immersed in a crisp, and rich vocabulary of critical … Continued
Testimonial – Mari Osanai
“Because of the CAVE, I was able to introduce Noguchi Taiso (Noguchi technique, Noguchi Gymnastics) to New York. And now, the co-director of CAVE, Ximena Garnica teach Noguchi in NYC. And this is great because performers from all over the world can intensively learn Noguchi at CAVE and Ximena can develop the technique further. The other director Shige Moriya is Japanese so, it was so helpful for me as well. I was invited to teach and perform at CAVE in ’08, ’09, ’10 & ‘11. There are two studios and I can rehearse a lot. I was able to create … Continued