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Erin Ellen Kelly

Erin Ellen Kelly has trained with butoh masters Ko Murobushi, Takuya Muramatsu, Tetsuro Fukuhara, and Diego Piñon and employs techniques from butoh, qigong, gymnastics, farming, cabaret dancing, and performance action-theater to create new works, ways of moving, and performance installation pieces that comment on the human condition and its...Continued

18. Mar

Tanya Calamoneri

Tanya Calamoneri works in the areas of contemporary dance, Japanese Butoh, and physical theater. She started choreographing her own work in 1997, via her collective with Allen Willner and Krista DeNio, violent dwarf. Based in San Francisco from 1996-2003, she was ED of Dancers’ Group, and Co-Director of both...Continued

18. Mar

Mei-Be Whatever

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...Continued

18. Mar

Vangeline

Vangeline is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a postmodern Butoh dance company firmly rooted in the tradition ofJapanese But while carrying it into the 21st century. She joined the Butoh Ritual Mexicano with Master Diego Pinon in 2002, and is assistant Director to Butoh Master Tetsuro Fukuhara...Continued

18. Mar

Ariane Anthony

18. Mar

Tatsuro Ishii

Tatsuro Ishii is a dance critic and Professor at Keio University in Tokyo. He writes Cance reviews for the Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun, DanceMagazine, and others. He si the author of such books as The Spirit Journey of the Body Expression, Sexuality of Transvestism, Essays on Female Transvestism, The...Continued

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Sondra Freleigh

18. Mar

Denise Fujiwara

DENISE FUJIWARA is a choreographer, dancer, actor, dance impresario and teacher with 27 years of professional experience. Fujiwara’s dance has been featured in dance festivals in Seattle, Washington DC, Vancouver, Calgary, Copenhagen, Ecuador and India. Based in Canada, Fujiwara continues to develop original solo and ensemble dance performance

18. Mar

Takuya Ishide

Takuya Ishide was born in Tokyo in 1958. Former student of Ishi Mitsutaka and Tatsumi Hiikata, he performed in Hijikata’s last work, Tohoku Kabuki Keikaku 2 and 4 in 1985 with Min Tanaka. He also danced with Saburo Teshigawara’s Company, KARAS, touring in France. His solo work has toured...Continued

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