She is passionate about teaching the rhythmic intricacies embedded in Zimbabwean dance traditions in a
manner that is accessible to people regardless of their previous dance experience. Students will have the opportunity to internalize the movements and rhythms of a dance form that is rarely performed or taught.

Michael Bodel is a choreographer, performer and dance writer whose current interests include alphabetically: affordances, Bread and Puppet Theater, dance film, embodied cognition, pageantry, place, religion, Ralph Lemon, scent, semiot- ics, smuggling and speech. Michael developes dance in the frosty hills of Putney Vermont. He is the founder and curator of the briefly dormant FRAMEWORKS dance film series, and his new website on dance ideas and action launches this Summer at www.movemargin.org

Elke Luyten, originally from Belgium, lives and works in New York City. In 2010, Luyten re-performed several of Abramović’s pieces at the exhibition “Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present” at the MoMA. She is currently performing in Robert Wilson’s “The Life and Death of Marina Abramović”, which has toured internationally since 2011. Luyten’s own work has been presented by the RED- CAT in Los Angeles, Kyoto University of Art and Design, Hooyong Performing Art Centre in South Korea, the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill and Dance New Amsterdam in New York. Her most recent collaboration with Kira Alker called “Death Drive” was performed as part of the Dance and Process series at The Kitchen this past June. Currently, Luyten is working as the Artist Advisor at the Watermill Center and she curates the International Summer Fellowship Program at the Stiftung Insel Hombroich in Germany.

Kota Yamazaki was first introduced to butoh in 1977 through the teaching of Akira Kasai and began ballet training under the late Hirofumi Inoue in 1981. He was an artistic director of Tokyo-based rosy co. from 1995 until its close in 2001. Following an invitation in 2001 from Germaine Acogny,Yamazaki created the work FAGAA- LA in collaboration with her Senegal-based company, for which he received a NY Dance and Performance Award (Bessie Award) in 2007 and nominated for Alpert Award. Since 2002,Yamazaki with his NY-based Fluid hug-hug, presents works nationally and inter- nationally and teaches at many universities. In 2013, he received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award in New York for his artistic achievements.

Mina Nishimura, from Tokyo, was introduced to butoh and impro- visational dance through Kota Yamazaki’s teaching.While perform- ing nationally and internationally with many inspirational chore- ographers, her own works have been presented by DTW,The Kitchen, Danspace Project, Movement Research, Roulette among other venues. Nishimura was the danceWeb scholar at Impuls Tanz (Vienna) in 2009, and was a curator for MR Spring Festival 2013. She was on AIR program at Brooklyn Art Exchange in 2010-2011, at Chez Bushwick in 2013 and is a current AIR (2013-2014) at Movement Research. Nishimura has been teaching at Bennington College and Ferris University (Japan).

Sophia Treanor is a Brooklyn based performance artist, actor, dancer, and director. Sophia studied acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and when introduced to movement training was immediately shocked by the enormous expressive potential of the body.This began a more spiritual relationship to dance and music, and led her to study meditation, improvisation, and the Six Viewpoints with Mary Overlie. Sophia has been investigating presence (((now))) with collaborator Sebastiani Romagnolo and musician Adam Gundersheimer for the last two years, and the performance possibilities between poetry and movement with poet Rachel Broderick. Snow flakes, sand dunes, and turbulent vortices weaves these collaborations together with the assistance of actor, dancer, and singer Heather Thiry and musician Derek Baron.

Jeremy Goren, Stephanie Eiss, Jenna Kirk, and Tommy Schell have been working together since the beginning of 2013. They have performed Wistaria at several locations in New York, in collaboration with a changing cadre of artists.

Julia Crockett and Colin Self have been creative partners since the summer of 2012.Their work together explores imitation, icons, emotional gesture, and the cultivation of identity (personal, cultural, and gender). Packed with emotional variance, humor, extremity, and pop-culture nods, their collaborations guide both the performers and viewers through diverse, rich, human experiences.

Carlye Eckert is a choreographer and performer based in New York and a graduate of the Juilliard School (Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, 2009). Ms. Eckert has worked and collaborated with Tino Sehgal, Jonah Bokaer, Jack Ferver, Luke Murphy Dance, Yara Travieso, Lucie Baker, The Equus Projects, Boris Charmatz/ Musee de la Danse and appeared as a guest dance artist with Aszure Barton & Artists and Keigwin+Company. Ms. Eckert is a member of the Brian Brooks Dance Company. In addition to her solo choreographic work, Ms. Eckert has an ongoing collaboration with John Sorensen-Jolink under the moniker, Eckert+So-rensen Jolink. She, along with John, is co-dance producer for STUFFED, a quarterly performance series at Judson Memorial Church in New York City. Her work has been presented in Portland, Oregon at A-WOL; in New York City at Jud- son Church, Center for Performance Research, CUNY, Dance New Amsterdam, West End Theater, Dixon Place, Location One, DUMBO Dance Festival, Green Space, The Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Lincoln Center, and The Juilliard School. Raelene Eckert works as a nurse and caregiver in Portland, Oregon. She is a photographer, jewelry maker and yoga enthusiast. Best gigs ever have been her job as mother to her daughters, Carlye and Alyssa and life partner to their sweet father, Pete. This work came about because of a recurring dream she had and then shared with her daughter. She is excited to have this opportunity to explore the experience of dance and performance with Carlye. This will be her first performance ever.

Rebecca Brooks is a dance artist based in Brooklyn, NY. Her performance works have been presented in theaters, galleries, art fairs, community centers, living rooms, offices, churches, bars, and parks. Her most recent work, Still Left On This Rock, was presented at Danspace Project in April 2014. She has worked as a performer with Marina Abramović, luciana achugar, Maria Hassabi, Susan Rethorst, robbinschilds, Kathy Westwater, and many others. She works in an advisory role with Heather Kravas and Milka Djordjevich.An AmSAT-certified Alexander Technique teacher, Rebecca is currently on faculty at Balance Arts Center and Movement Research, and she also teaches privately.

Paul Peers is part of of a collaborative dance duo with Tina Mitchell

Tina Mitchell is a New York-based actor, director, teaching artist and theatre maker. Hailing from Australia,Tina is a graduate of the Adelaide College of the Arts and holds a Masters of Arts Practice specializing in Performance.A 2015 resident Fellow at LEIMAY, Tina is co-Artistic Director of Chopt Logic, a company dedicated to producing inter-disciplinary live performances that respond to women’s role in contemporary culture. Her latest project Miss Julia, a bilingual adaptation of Strindberg’s classic play, has been performed in the prestigious Iberoamericano Festival de Bogotá and Festivals across Colombia and Spain. Tina works internationally as an actor, director and teaching artist and specializes in movement based theatre works.

Hee Ran Lee is a performance artist working as a performer and director. Her recent grants have included the ARKO Young Art Frontier from Arts Council Korea (2013), Semi-finalist prize for emerging artist from The Claire Rosen
& Samuel Edes Foundation (2012) and The Anna Louise Raymond Fellowship (2012). Her work has been shown at Culture Station Seoul 284(Korea 2014), Grace Exhibition Space (New York 2013),The Watermill Center (New York 2012), Defibrillator Gallery(Chicago 2012), and Rockbund Art Museum(Shanghai 2011). She holds an MFA specializing in performance from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently is a fellow artist of LEIMAY 2014-2015 at CAVE in NewYork.

Laura Peterson is a NYC based choreographer. She is deeply influenced by visual art and her work explores unfixed relationship we have to the body’s limits and the limitlessness of human imagination. Laura has had choreographic residencies and commissions throughout NewYork and other cities including HERE Arts Center, Queens Museum with Topaz Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and others. Her dances have been presented by The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Jacob’s Pillow Out-of-Doors, Lincoln Center Out-of- Doors among many festivals in the US, and in Argentina, Germany and Poland. She is a 2014 recipient of a fellowship from the Bogliasco Foundation in Italy. Laura has made dances for Hartford Ballet, Pennsylvania Ballet, Drop Dance, and at many universities in the US.

Luigi Repetto began his classical ballet training in Milan at the Official Ballet School of La Scala with Isabela Glowacka and Gabriel Popescu.

While still studying at the Ballet School, he started to perform as a soloist with the Company of La Scala appearing on the stage together with Rudolf Nure- yev in his choreographies and also performed Maurice Béjart’s ‘Bolero’ with Luciana Savignano. In addition to traditional La Scala repertory, he worked with contemporary choreographers such as Glen Tetley, Roland Petit, Joseph Russil- lo. Simultaneously, he continued to study with renowned teachers such as Erik Bruhn e Azari Plisetski.

After obtaining a Ballet Master degree at La Scala, following the advice of his mentor Evgheni Polyakov, Luigi went on to study the teaching methodology of Stanley Williams at the School of American Ballet: the school established by Balanchine and connected to the NewYork City Ballet. He has also studied at the Merce Cunningham Dance Studio.

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 Association, and in various dance and theater train- ing programs.Yael is currently based in Aarhus, Denmark.

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 also wrote the story on which Lee Breuer based his production Red Beads. She has taught legions of students over 30 years through her unique approach and Kinetic Mind Practice at institutions, the list of which includes New York University, Brooklyn College, the Stella Adler Studio and Shakespeare Conservatory. She currently serves on the faculties of Michael Howard Studios, Hunter College and Yale University.

Maximilian Balduzzi is a performer and director born in a small village in the Italian Alps. Maximilian holds a degree in theatre from the University of Bologna. In 2003, he and director Anne Zenour founded the group Teatro della Pioggia in Siena. Maximilian also worked with Stefano Vercelli in Italy and with Mamadou Dioume, an actor with Peter Brook. He studied Balinese dance and song for six months with Guru I Made Bukel and Guru I Nyoman Tchandri in Bali. Maximilian’s unique approach to theatrical training and composition is indebted to his work with these teachers. Maximilian moved to New York City in 2008 where he met and began to work with Ben Spatz. Since than he also worked with James Scrugs and Arturo Vidich and is currently artist in residence at Cave and Movement Research. www.urbanresearchtheater.com

Associate Director of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. He is an actor, teacher and director. For more than twenty years he has been a central contributor to practical research in the domain of Art as Vehicle.

Jen Kosky/Dance Projects is a contemporary dance company founded and directed by Jen Kosky. Jen Kosky is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance artist. Her work is largely inspired by the energetics of nature, urbanity and the body and is often portrayed with a fiery feminine point of view. Her movement style draws from release technique, improvisation and African dance forms. Jen has had the pleasure of dancing for numerous talented choreographers including Ellis Wood, Martha Williams, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Jody Oberfelder, Stephanie Sleeper and Shalewa Mackall. Jen’s choreography has been presented at various venues including ABC NoRio, the Hatch, the Chelsea Art Museum, Galapagos Art Space, Studio AIR, New York City Theater and Media, The Schermerhorn Theater and BAX. Jen has been honored to be a guest artist at the Gershwin Hotel for two years where she has been sponsored to create two full evening length works. Jen is currently enjoying a fruitful time of creativity as a resident artist at CAVE arts.

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.