Rachel Cohen

Rachel Cohen has been choreographing and performing in NewYork City since 1997, and created Racoco Productions in 2003. She graduated from Harvard University with a degree in Performance as Communication, a self-designed major; she studied dance and choreography with Claire Mallardi. Ms. Cohen currently studies action theater with Ruth Zaporah and Cassie Terman and ballet with Carolyn Lord; other influential teachers include Mary Anthony and Bertram Ross (modern dance), Heather Cornell (tap), Rafael Bianciotto (mask and clown), Patricia Cross (ballet), and Joanne Conroy and Olga Baigas (jazz). She has performed with Olek, Julie Atlas Muz, SHUA Group, Ariane Anthony + … Continued

Polina Klimovitskaya

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 … Continued

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

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

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.

Irena Romendik

Was born in USSR. She studied Social Realism Painting in Kiev, Ukraine, obtained a BFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Multimedia at Pratt and a Master of Interactive Telecommunications – NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, ITP. Irena has worked as artist in a diverse array of fields, starting from Archaeology, Theater, Children’s books illustrations, Animation, Video, Interactive Multimedia, Game Design, and Creative Code.  She has co-designed and fabricated costumes for LEIMAY’s projects for the past nine years and  performed in several LEIMAY projects. She has been a LEIMAY Fellow with her own work as a visual artist collaborating with … 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