Tatsuya Nakatani

Tatsuya Nakatani is native of Osaka, Japan, where he studied under Yasuhiro Yoshigaki. After moving to the U.S. in 1995, Tatsuya emerged as one of the key players in the Boston Jazz/improvisational music scene. “Tatsuya Nakatani is a different kind of drummer. He is Gagaku. He is Butoh. He is Contemporary” – Bob Falesch. Tatsuya currently resides in New York City, where he is founding director of the gallery/performing arts space “The Grist Mill”. Tatsuya’s versatility has also lead him to sound engineering, filmscore composition and sessions with country, jazz and rock bands. Originally from Kobe and Osaka, Japan, Tatsuya … Continued

Juan Merchan

Juan Merchan is an actor, director and theatrical lighting designer. He developed his work as a designer, mainly at La Mama Theater in New York for 18 years. He was co-founder and co-curator of the New York International Butoh Festival. He did lighting design for several companies, such as the Zendora Dance Company, Great Jones Repertory, Pioneers Go East Collective, Sonia Olla Flamenco Company, Brooklyn United Ensemble, the Filipino Kinding Sindaw Company, among others. He also designed the lighting and set design for several productions of the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble in New York. He recently worked in New York on … Continued

Shige Moriya

Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space.  Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but … Continued

Ximena Garnica

Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery. “Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions. She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira … Continued

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