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)

Claude Debussy

Music for cokaseki: Tooboe (Howl) (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Soren Do

Photographer for cokaseki: Tooboe (Howl) (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Rob Whitehead

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Bill Fairhall

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Hirokazu Hiraishi

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Koichi Tamano

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha ButohDance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Hiroko Tamano

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Minako Seki

Minako Seki was born in Nagasaki, from 1985 a dancer for Butoh-Dance-Company DANCE-LOVE-MACHINE, directed by Tetsuro tamura, preformed in Europe with this production in 1986. In 1987 she was co-founder of tatoeba – THEATER DANSE GROTESQUE, the first German-Japanese Butoh Ensemble (Berlin) She has taught workshops in Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Bolivia, Japan, San Fransisco and New York.

SUIT (Nathan Howe and Roland Toledo)

SUIT: Nathan Howe and Roland Toledo moved to New York City to pursue music in 2000; it was not until 2002 that SUIT became the body from which three EPs have been released: Death March (2002), Mas Touching/Ninfa (2003), and Pang OS (2004), also three sound colages, KM (2003) KM 2(2004) and KM 3(2006).

Abby Walton

Abby Walton (Costume Design) is currently assisting Oana Botez-Ban on upcoming productions of Richard I (Classic Stage Company) and Miss Julie (Colgate University), and recently worked with the Moscow Festival Ballet on their touring production of Sleeping Beauty. This piece for the Japan Society is her first solo design effort since arriving to New York City. She graduated from Smith College this spring, and has also studied at the Glasgow School of Art in the U.K. Many thanks to Oana Botez-Ban, the members of Smith College’s Costume Department.

Yanira Castro

Yanira Castro (New York/Puerto Rico) is the director of Yanira Castro + Company. Although not a butoh dancer per se, her expressionistic and emotionally charged pieces share aspects of its aesthetic. The Village Voice described her off-kilter performers as “radiant mythic beasts, glamorous and terrifying…

Jeff Janisheski

JEFF JANISHESKI has trained in butoh since 1989 – including three years with Kazuo Ohno- and Japanese No theatre since 1992; he is also the co-founder of the New York Butoh Festival.

Ralph Lee

Ralph Lee is a mask maker, theater director and Founding Artistic Director the Mettawee Theater Company. He has been artist in residence in many universities and performing spaces and is a recipient of a Guggenheim Award for Excellence.

Daniel Carter

Daniel Carter is a musician and improviser playing yearly at the Vision Festival, and internationally with many groups. He has played for many dancers including Margaret Beals, Simone Forti and Laurie Hockman. He has made several CD’s with the group Other Dimensions.

Nancy Zendora

Nancy Zendora established the Zendora Dance Company in 1977. Her work synthesizes Eastern and Western aesthetics, is known for its delicate and sparse aesthetic

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Michael Bates

Michael Bates is a New York-based double bassist/composer concentrating on a wide spectrum of original music and creative improvising. In the early 90’s he studied in Japan with the former principal bassist of the Tokyo Symphony Yoshie Nagashima Bates has performed with musicians such as Chad Talmor, John Abercrombie and Dylan Van Der Schyff, and has toured Hong Kong, China, Korea Japan, Canada and the U.S.

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Gil Selinger

Gil Selinger: Cellist Composer Soundpainting Conductor Improviser As a cellist, Gil’s background is in Classical Jazz, and Free Improvisation, all of which he has merged into a style called Classical Improvisation He has appeared in every major music space in New York City including Lincoln Center, Tonic, the Knitting Factory and others. Gil has also appeared on tour throughout Europe, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.

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Leigh Evans

LEIGH EVANS is an international yoga teacher and dancer. Her dance/theatre-work is fed by fascination with performance and meditative traditions of Asia. LEIGH EVANS is an international yoga teacher and dancer. Her dance/theatre-work is fed by fascination with performance and meditative traditions of Asia.

Christian Pincock

Christian Pincock is a trombonist and composer in the New York area who works in many different musical settings. He has performed internationally at the Louis Armstrong International Jazz Competition in Le Havre, France, the Chiliwack Jazz Festival in British Columbia, and in the U.S. at Birdland, Niagara, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Kaoru Watanabe

Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe’s work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with contemporary jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements. His signature skill of infusing Japanese culture with disparate styles has made him a much-in-demand collaborator working with such iconic artists as Wes Anderson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Laurie Anderson, Jason Moran, Yo-Yo Ma, Japanese National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Silkroad Ensemble, and Rhiannon Giddens. A trained jazz musician, he lived in Japan for a decade to connect with his heritage. While there, he became the first American to become a performer and Artistic Director of the iconic taiko drumming ensemble Kodo.

Marc Ates

Marc Ates is a Berlin based director, choreographer, performer and lighting designer. From 1993 to 2000, he was a student/dancer of Anzu Furukawa whom he considers his primary professor and teacher. Since 1990, his various art and performance projects (as dancer, performer and director) have spanned Germany, the U.S., Italy, Poland, GUS, France, Spain and Denmark. In the U.S. he has collaborated with the San Francisco based company inkboat. In 1995 Ates founded loplop performance space in Berlin. The same year he formed the dance company cokaseki along with dancer Yuko Kaseki

Sadayuki Hayashi

Sadayuki Hayashi formed his own dance company, Golgi Worx, with Ono Kzuyoshi in 1989. With the aim of fabricating “artistic anti-art,” he began creating and presenting his dance works. He has been active in the Tokyo dance scene, creating short pieces and performing as a dancer in the works of such choreographers as Kota Yamazaki and Tamami Yamada. In 2003, he was a finalist for the Toyota Choreography Awards 2003. He is currently the Anti-Artistic Director of Golgi Worx.

Yukio Suzuki

Yukio Suzuki began his butoh training in 1997 and has performed with such groups and artists as Asbestos Studio (the butoh center founded by Akiko Motofuji), Goro Namerikawa (a former member of sankaijuku) and SAL-VANILLA, a multimedia performance group. In 2003 he joined Ko’s company with his performance in [Edge03] in Mexico. His choreography for his own company, Kingyo, was the recipient of the Audience Award in the Toyota Choreography Awards 2005.

Daiji Meguro

DAIJI MEGURO joined Ko Murobushi’s three-man Edge Company in 2004. He since emerging as one of the most thoughtful voices in international Butoh. Meguro is the founder of the NUDE Dance Company.

Daiji Meguro trained under the late Akiko Motufuji, the wife of Tatsumi Hijikata. He has appeared in several productions of Ko & Edge Co. since the 2003 [Edge03] performance in Mexico. In 2004, he launched his own performance company, NUDE. By redefining the physical body based on the ideas of butoh, Daiji aims to develop butoh for the next generation.

Rickard Sporrong

Rickard Sporrong is a freelance computer and video artist based in Uppsala. He has collaborated with SU-EN in many live events and film projects. Website: homepage.mac.com/rrongproduction/rronghome

Lee Berwick/DIGIDUB

Lee Berwick worked in the South London underground Dub and Industrial
music scene, and has run the recording studio and record company Digi Dub
since 1989. His work is a re-smelting, re- working and re-cycling of
surrounding sound. Current projects include a site-specific audio art
project, inspired by the river Thames, and the video film ‘Yatra’ Berwick and SU-EN have worked in close collaboration since 1994. www.digidub.demon.co.uk

Chisato Katata

Initially trained in modern dance. She then studied intensively with Yukio
Waguri, and under his guidance formed the Tokyo-based group Shinonome
with Yuko Kawamoto and Asuka Shimada in the mid 1990s. The word shinonome comes from the Japanese term for the twilight sky, when the darkness fades away in daylight. Shinonome’s fresh approach differs from what has been translated in the West as butoh’s “dance of darkness” – instead they show a more twilight world that balances the dark and the light. Chisato Katata’s website: http://www.shinonomebutoh.com

Steve Miller

Steve Miller is a Seattle-based musician, sound collector and visual
artist. He is a member of Gamelan Pacifica, Audiofile Collective ,and
a former member of Tchkung.

Jonathan Vincent

Jonathan Vincent has performed as a pianist, accordionist, and vocalist
throughout the east coast, Germany, Switzerland and France. He has
premiered several compositions by Stuart Saunders Smith and Jef Arnal. Preview recordings at generaterecords.net and adamjameswilson.com. Contact: jonathanvincent@hotmail.com

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