Naida Zukic is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech, Communication, and Theatre Arts at BMCC, CUNY Manhattan. She is a New York-based Bosnian born performance artist and a scholar in communication, critical cultural theory, and performance studies. www.naidazukic.com
Liz McAuliffe
Liz McAuliffe began her relationship with CAVE in June when she performed with LEIMAY in Uncovering at the LAB gallery. She is grateful to be able to participate in the Butoh-Kan this fall, and honored to have performed with Yukio Waguri. The Sunday morning Piercing Butoh class with Ximena has been a wonderful experience, she has never laughed so hard as in the past two months. Thank you to Ximena, Irena, Theresa, and Hiram.
Sherwood Chen
Sherwood Chen has worked as a performer with artists including Anna Halprin, Min Tanaka, Xavier Le Roy, l’agence touriste, inkBoat, Ko Murobushi, Liz Santoro, Grisha Coleman, Arcane Collective and Sara Shelton Mann. In 2009, he formed dance collaborative Headmistress with choreographer Amara Tabor-Smith, and together they are artists in residence at ODC in San Francisco (2012-2015). Sherwood has worked with Body Weather Laboratory training, initiated by Tanaka, since 1993, and was a resident member of Tanaka’s international performance collective Mai Juku in rural Japan. He has facilitated Body Weather Laboratory and danced with Oguri, Roxanne Steinberg, and Melinga Ring in … Continued
Damontae Hack
(He/him/they) is 25 years old and originally from Baltimore, MD. He recently graduated from the California Institute of the Arts, majoring in dance (2020). Now residing full time in New York City. Damontae is a choreographer, dancer, director, and model looking to create and explore the boundaries of Black art; dealing with the physicality of bodies, intimacy, shape, and the overall development of the human consciousness over “time” through cinema, choreography, photography, and voice work. Damontae has been involved in a wide range of work. Ballet, contemporary, hip hop, site-specific work, etc… Including work by artists Garret Ammon, Marissa Brown, … Continued