Yael Gaathon is an Israeli – Danish actress and butoh dancer. She completed her acting studies in Israel in ’93, after which she joined the internationally acclaimed Itim Theater Ensemble. During her work with the Ensemble Yael was introduced to butoh and received regular butoh training. In 2002 Yael moved to Denmark, where she established her comapany Blue Cliff and began to choreograph and direct solo and group pieces.Throughout the years she has been giving butoh workshops, as well as training and teaching actors and dancers in film, the state theater schools in Denmark, private theater schools, the Danish Actors … Continued
Sondra Fraleigh
Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus of Dance and Somatic Studies at the State University of New York at Brockport. She is the co-author of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Karwo (2006) and author of Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan (1999). Her innovative choreography has been seen in theatres in New York, Germany, and Japan. She si the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of movement therapy and dance.
Polina Klimovitskaya
Polina Klimovitskaya has worked as a director and master teacher across Russia, Europe and the United States and holds an MFA and a Ph.D. from Yale University. She started her work as an actress and director in Moscow in the 1960s, studying acting with disciples of Stanislavsky and Vakhtangov and directing with the last assistant of the great stage-innovator Meyerhold. In the USA she performed at Yale Repertory Theater and in the Academy Award-winning short film Molly’s Pilgrim. Polina has directed at the Kennedy Center, among dozens of other places, and as an artist-in-residence at Mabou Mines, for whom she … Continued
Piotr Redlinski
Piotr Redlinski was born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland. He moved to New York City in 1987 where he currently resides. After graduating with a B.A. in ARCHITECTURE from COOPER UNION, a unique New York art school renowned for its synthesis of science and art, Redlinski pursued his growing interest in multiculturalism by moving to Asia. Upon his return to New York City, Redlinski has worked primarily as a photographer and a journalist. Redlinski’s work spans a variety of categories from portraiture and architecture to fine arts and reportage.