“‘Quick Silver” was full of piercing accuracy. With a prizefighter’s grace, he darted from spot to spot, collapsing backward onto the stage only to spring up in a mercuric flash.” – Gia Kourlas, The New York Times
Press Quote – Theatre of Revulsion, Quick Silver by Ko Murobushi, NYBF 2009
“Murobushi’s Butoh is a theatre of revulsion, convulsion or repulsion. The body is like a half-monkey, half-reptile. It recurves and always crawls on the round, full of violent energy, soft, anti-human, and cannibal. There is no form of Occidental physical naturalism.” – Jean Baudrillard, Theatre of Revulsion
Press Quote – The New York Times, Furnace by Ximena Garnica, Ko Murobushi, Shige Moriya, NYBF 2009
“Set on flooring a stage covered in black shiny flooring, the sides hung with similarly reflective fabric, “Furnace” offers absolutely no primal emotion and a great deal of sincere endeavor. It opens with Ms. Garnica moving very slowly with her back to the audience, shoulders slumped and feet turned in as the Beatles’ “Golden Slumbers” plays and replays. After a while, other dancers enter with the same minuscule steps; later they quiver as they cluster about a silver mannequin lying on the floor. The mannequin’s purpose is mysterious here, and it subsequently disappears, but to ask what it might mean … Continued
Press Quote – The Brooklyn Rail, Loud by Denisa Musilova, NYBF 2009
“Musilova hangs upside down from a swath of fabric in Loud. Heavy machinery sounds blare and a bare light bulb dangles, sputtering on and off as Musilova, in a tight red top, hangs motionless, her eyes possessed. She gallops and rolls wildly and incessantly across the floor, kicking and hitting herself. Knees knocked inwards, she stands and stares at the audience, her head shaking and eyes fluttering, like a little girl betrayed. She walks a beautiful line between darkness and vulnerability.” – Erika Eichelberger,”CAVE New York Butoh Festival – The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23-November 25, 2009″, The Brooklyn Rail, 2009