Maximilian Balduzzi

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 … Continued

Mario Biagini

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

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 … Continued

Johanna Kirk

Johanna Kirk (Performer) si originally from Boise, Idaho where she had the great fortune to study modern dance from akind of punk rock angel, Leah Clark. Johanna danced with Balance Dance Company for eight years before attending Barnard College, from which she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Dance Major and Art History Minor. While at Barnard, she had the chance to work with Robert Batle, Azure Barton, David Newmann, JeanineDurning,Ivy Baldwin, Mary Cochran and other fabulous mentors. Last year, she worked on a reconstruction of Twyla Tharp’s Eight Jely Rols, performed at the Joyce. She has choreographed for many … Continued

Vageline

Vangeline is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a postmodern Butoh dance company firmly rooted in the tradition ofJapanese B u t while carrying it into the 21st century. She joined the Butoh Ritual Mexicano with Master Diego Pinon in 2002,a n d is assistant Director to Butoh Master Tetsuro Fukuhara for the project TOKYO SPACE DANCE. www.vangeline.com

Amiti Perry

Amiti Perry received her BA in Dance from the University of North Texas and MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University. She co-founded DIPdance with collaborator Coco Loupe in 2001; presented and performed works in New York, Texas, Louisiana and Ohio; performed as a guest artist with Rachel Lampert and Dancers (Ithaca, NY, 1999); and performed, taught, assisted and designed, nationally and internationally, with Skip Costa/COREmovement Project-NYC (1999-2003). She was company in residence at Bridge for Dance for 5 years and most recently accepted a residency for 2011 at CAVEarts in Brooklyn, NY. Her work has been presented at … Continued

Julie Rachel Spodek

Julie Rachel Spodek is an emerging dancer and performer. She was born into her current body on February 15th, 1964. She continues to be profoundly moved, awed and fascinated, wonderfully and horribly surprised, completely perplexed and confounded, continually and unceasingly confronted by the infinite enigmas, the painful and delightful challenges, the infinite equations and struggles, as well as the wonderful magical experience and sense of being in and of, and most certainly beyond a human body.

Matthew de Leon

Matthew de Leon was born in New York, raised on Governor’s Island, and currently lives in Brooklyn. He received his BFA from the University of Connecticut, and his MFA from Parsons the New School. In videos, performances, and drawings he conjures a cast of misfit characters into a realm of narrative and visual structures influenced by MTV music videos, Dutch paintings, and Disney movies. These characters are manifestations of interior feelings that spark a fire of imagination somewhere in the space between tragic and funny, reality and fantasy, the lovely and the bittersweet.
www.matthewdeleon.com

Seyhan Musaoglu

Seyhan Musaoglu is a multi-media artist whose work spans the fields of live performance, sound art, film and video, and 2-D media. Drawing inspiration from diverse sources ranging from science fiction imagery, to fashion, to choreography, interpretive and ritual, her work investigates the gap between sound production and music composition, contemporary feminist theory, and the history of avant-garde filmmaking as well as performance art history and movement. She performs in experimental sound and noise collaborations as well as her own performance works. Seyhan holds an MFA from Parsons the New School for Design. Some of the venues her work has … Continued

Hiram Pines

Hiram Pines is a monologuist, writer and creator of movement-based theater. His solo show, “The Day The Universe Came Closer,” toured in the summer of 2006 and his most recent ensemble-based production, “Not My Problem,” premiered in the New York Fringe Festival in 2010. These are some of Hiram’s favorite things: theology, poetry, punctuation, cat naps, naps with cats, leaping, thinking, sighing, birds.

Naida Zukic

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

Akane Little

Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance artist exploring performance as an interdimensional portal into the personal and collective unconscious. They began their dance training as a competition dancer in Starkville, MS, and continued on to study contemporary dance under Alysia Ramos at Oberlin College. During their time freelancing in Brooklyn, they have performed with artists including Kinesis Project, Hivewild, Boy Friday│Evik Abbott-Main, Hard/Femme Dances, God Complex x Aeon Andreas, and more. They are a featured performer in music videos for Tom Petty (dir. Adria Petty) and Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive). This is their second year in the LEIMAY … Continued

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 … Continued

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.

Jeremy Danneman

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Alto Saxophone

Jay Berckley

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Alto Saxophone

Brett Ryan

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians, Alto Saxophone

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 … Continued

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.

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