Peggy Gould

NYC-based dancer, choreographer, collaborator, movement educator and writer. BFA & MFA Degrees in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts; teacher of Alexander Technique certified by Aileen Crow; Dance Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College (1999-present); Assistant to renowned functional anatomist and dance educator Irene Dowd; has worked with artists including Sondra Loring, Patricia Hoffbauer, Tiffany Osedra Miller, Cathy Weis, Sara Rudner, Joyce S. Lim, Bryan Fox, and created eleven original interdisciplinary works (1996-2018); Fulbright Specialist in Dance/U.S. Studies (2019) in Cuenca, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador; Leimay guest artist (2023-present).

Yusuke Mori

Yusuke Mori was born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1982, and moved to Tokyo in 2001, where he majored in Performance in Broadcasting at the Tokyo Announce Performing Arts College. Upon graduating, he joined the butoh group KAIZA, led by Hideyuki Okaniwa. Currently, he is a member of Theatre Company shelf, and has performed in numerous productions by the experimental theater company Banyu Inryoku, led by J.A. Seazer. Major stage productions, written by Shuji Terayama, include: Lemmings (2017), Shintokumaru (Poinson Boy, 2017), Inugami (The Dog God, 2016), Nuhi-Kun (Directions to Servants, 2015), Jashumon (Hersey, 2013), and The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu (2012), among others. In 2012, he has also performed in a three-part theatrical adaptation of Frank Kafka’s novels, titled Amerika, The Trial and The Castle. On screen work includes the feature film Dororo (2007), directed by Akihiko Shiota, based on the original story by Osamu Tezuka.

Hirosako Horiwaka

For two decades Hisako contributed to the developement of the Body Weather Laboratory. A kinesthetic and movement research initiated by dancer.farmer Min Tanaka. This comprehensive movement training offers open and incisive investigations to challage physical limits and scale, evoke sense memory and rigorously re-examine the body as a dynamic, transformative enviorment.

Tadashi Endo

Tadashi Endo was born in Peking, China. A Japanese butoh dancer, choreographer, director, Tadashi Endo synthesizes the traditions of Noh, Kabuko and Butoh.

He found his own way of dance, known as Butoh MA. MA, in ZEN-Buddhism, means ’emptiness’ and space between the things’ Tadashi Endo is guest professor at the “Hochschule für Darstellende Kunst” in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, “The Acadamy of Music and Moving Arts” in Jerusalem, Israel, and at the Nucleo Interdisciplinar des Pesquisas teatrais, Unicamp, University Campinas, Brazil.

Carolina Oliveros

Carolina Oliveros is a singer, songwriter born in Barranquilla, Colombia and now based in New York City. She performed the traditional music with many groups in Colombia and NYC, investigating and researching the multitude of rhythms in the bailes cantados of the region including bullerengue, tambora, gaita, and millo. But also extending the  research in Dominican Republic ,Puerto Rico y Cuba.

In NYC she records, performances and tours with groups she formed including: “Bulla en el Barrio” and “Combo Chimbita,” She is currently working on several new musical and dance projects with the goal of representing and showcasing her indigenous and Afro-descendant musical roots but also the cosmovisión as an immigrant.

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Theresa Magario

Theresa Magario tm is an introvert native of Massachusetts who improbably found their way from visual arts and writing onto the performance art stage. They explored stagecraft at CAVE, Brooklyn New York from 2008-2012 under the instruction of teachers renowned in their fields of practice such as butoh and noguchi taiso.

Cassie Terman

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer, and teacher. She has worked in improvisation, physical theater and dance since 1991 and regularly performs, solo works as well as collaborations with company SoGoNo, Schinichi Iova-Koga, and Heather Harpham. She teaches Action theater.

Kelly Buwalda

Kelly Buwalda currently dances for Antonio Ramos, Stephanie Tack, Amanda Dozer, and Julio Rivera. She teaches with National Dance Institute in NYC Public Schools of the Bronx, Harlem, Chinatown, and the US. Most recently she has performed her own work in at the University of San Juan, Puerto Rico, BAX and in Movement Research’s Open Performance.

Mei-Yin Ng

Mei Yin Ng has had the privilege of working and collaborating with Remote Control Productions/Michael Laub in Europe, Nyo-Ba &Dancers in Malaysia, & AMEYE in New York City. She founded MEl-BE Whatever Company (www.MeiBeWhatever.com) in 2002 as a collective for the interaction of artists from diverse fields. Initially focusing on modern movement as inner being, Ms. Ng’s work continues to evolve with the possibilities of contemporary technologies.

Jorge Vazquez Villarreal

Jorge Vazquez Villarreal was born and lives in Mexico. He started his artistic studies at the National Conservatory of Music in 1999. He joined Diego Pinon’s Butoh Ritual Mexicano in 2003, and has also trained in Butoh with Akira Kasai and Natsue Nakajima. He studies Kabuki with Irene Akikolida.

Amanda K. Ringger

Amanda K. Ringger has lived in New York for the past 12 years designing locally, nationally and internationally with artists such as Laura Peterson, Faye Driscoll, Julian Barnett, Alexandra Beller. Kota Yamazaki. Deborah Lose, Cynthia Oliver, Clare Byrne, Antonietta Vicario, Darrah Carr, Karen Love/Umoja, and Mark Jarecke, among others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA in lighting design from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Charles Christophe

Christopher DeLaurenti is a composer, improvisor, phonographer, and music writer. Concerning his work, he writes, “My music, the offspring of my love affair with sound, incorporates murky atmospheres, unusual field recordings, everyday speech, and an array of instruments deployed in maniacal recombinant polyphony.” (delaurenti.net)

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