NYBF Artist 2005 – Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha ButohDance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Hiroko Tamano

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Minako Seki

Minako Seki was born in Nagasaki, from 1985 a dancer for Butoh-Dance-Company DANCE-LOVE-MACHINE, directed by Tetsuro tamura, preformed in Europe with this production in 1986. In 1987 she was co-founder of tatoeba – THEATER DANSE GROTESQUE, the first German-Japanese Butoh Ensemble (Berlin) She has taught workshops in Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Bolivia, Japan, San Fransisco and New York.

Zam Johnson

Carol Martin

Mark Franko

Andre Lepecki

Yukako Yamazoe

Hisako Kasai

Lang Craighill

Kenichiro Iwasaki

Takashi lto

Kei Saito

Scott Bolman

Youen Cadiou

Michael Bates

Michael Bates is a New York-based double bassist/composer concentrating on a wide spectrum of original music and creative improvising. In the early 90’s he studied in Japan with the former principal bassist of the Tokyo Symphony Yoshie Nagashima Bates has performed with musicians such as Chad Talmor, John Abercrombie and Dylan Van Der Schyff, and has toured Hong Kong, China, Korea Japan, Canada and the U.S.

Gil Selinger

Gil Selinger: Cellist Composer Soundpainting Conductor Improviser As a cellist, Gil’s background is in Classical Jazz, and Free Improvisation, all of which he has merged into a style called Classical Improvisation He has appeared in every major music space in New York City including Lincoln Center, Tonic, the Knitting Factory and others. Gil has also appeared on tour throughout Europe, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand.

Lily Maase

Lily Masase is a part of New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians (Guitar)

Sam Kulik

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians @ NYBF 2005

Christian Pincock

Christian Pincock is a trombonist and composer in the New York area who works in many different musical settings. He has performed internationally at the Louis Armstrong International Jazz Competition in Le Havre, France, the Chiliwack Jazz Festival in British Columbia, and in the U.S. at Birdland, Niagara, Jordan Hall in Boston, and the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.

Eric John Eigner

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Percussion/Clarinet

Tara lshizuka Hassel

Caitlin Jemison

New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians -Vocals

Kaoru Watanabe

Acclaimed composer and instrumentalist Kaoru Watanabe’s work is grounded in traditional Japanese music while imbued with contemporary jazz, improvisation, and experimental music elements. His signature skill of infusing Japanese culture with disparate styles has made him a much-in-demand collaborator working with such iconic artists as Wes Anderson, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Laurie Anderson, Jason Moran, Yo-Yo Ma, Japanese National Living Treasure Bando Tamasaburo, Silkroad Ensemble, and Rhiannon Giddens. A trained jazz musician, he lived in Japan for a decade to connect with his heritage. While there, he became the first American to become a performer and Artistic Director of the iconic taiko drumming ensemble Kodo.

Anna-Alisa Belous

Marc Ates

Marc Ates is a Berlin based director, choreographer performer and lighting designer. From 1993 to 2000, he was a student/dancer of Anzu Furukawa whom he considers his primary professor and teacher. Since 1990, his various art and performance projects (as dancer, performer and director) have spanned Germany, the U.S., Italy, Poland, GUS, France, Spain and Denmark. In the U.S. he has collaborated with the San Francisco based company inkboat. In 1995 Ates founded loplop performance space in Berlin. The same year he formed the dance company cokaseki along with dancer Yuko Kaseki

Zachary Grace

Ayako Tsuchiya

Junko Hanamitsu

Maya Araki

TAK-HEY Aoki

Masaaki Aikawa

Peter Sempel

Eric S. Koziol

Eric S. Koziol and inkBoat

Sadayuki Hayashi

Sadayuki Hayashi formed his own dance company, Golgi Worx, with Ono Kzuyoshi in 1989. With the aim of fabricating “artistic anti-art,” he began creating and presenting his dance works. He has been active in the Tokyo dance scene, creating short pieces and performing as a dancer in the works of such choreographers as Kota Yamazaki and Tamami Yamada. In 2003, he was a finalist for the Toyota Choreography Awards 2003. He is currently the Anti-Artistic Director of Golgi Worx.

Yukio Suzuki

Yukio Suzuki began his butoh training in 1997 and has performed with such groups and artists as Asbestos Studio (the butoh center founded by Akiko Motofuji), Goro Namerikawa (a former member of sankaijuku) and SAL-VANILLA, a multimedia performance group. In 2003 he joined Ko’s company with his performance in [Edge03] in Mexico. His choreography for his own company, Kingyo, was the recipient of the Audience Award in the Toyota Choreography Awards 2005.

Daiji Meguro

DAIJI MEGURO joined Ko Murobushi’s three-man Edge Company in 2004. He since emerging as one of the most thoughtful voices in international Butoh. Meguro is the founder of the NUDE Dance Company. Daiji Meguro trained under the late Akiko Motufuji, the wife of Tatsumi Hijikata. He has appeared in several productions of Ko & Edge Co. since the 2003 [Edge03] performance in Mexico. In 2004, he launched his own performance company, NUDE. By redefining the physical body based on the ideas of butoh, Daiji aims to develop butoh for the next generation.

Gianni Di Capua

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 848 Community Space and Temescal Arts Center, and was a founding faculty member of the Experimental Performance Institute at New College of CA. She attended Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research from 1996-7 (directed by Martha Eddy and Carol Swann), danced for and was company manager to Kim … Continued

Yuko Kaseki

Yuko Kaseki is a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin. Kaseki has developed her own rich choreographic vocabulary that is rhythmic and elegant. Yuko Kaseki has lived and worked as a freelance dancer, choreographer and teacher in Berlin since 1995. From 1989 to 2001, she was the primary dancer in Anzu Furukawa’s seminal butoh group Dance Butter Tokio. With her company cokaseki (formed with Marc Ates), Kaseki has developed her own rich choreographic vocabulary that blends butoh with modern dance techniques. heh as performed her solo and ensemble work throughout Europe, Japan and the U.S., and since 2001 has … Continued

Evan Mazunik

Evan Mazunik – pianist, composer, and Soundpainter – is assistant conductor of the New York Soundpainting Orchestra. As a composer, he scored the documentary “The Checker King,” which aired on HBO2. As a performer, he has played with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Dick Oatts and Robert Paredes. Mazunik is also keyboardist for the Walter Thompson Orchestra www.evanmazunik.com

Akira Kasai

AKIRA KASAI has been called the “Niinsky of butoh” because of the stunning energy and concentration of his wild improvisational dances. In the 1960s, he studied with butoh co-founder Kazuo Ohno, and in 1971 started his own butoh company, Tenshi-kan. He moved to Germany in 1979 and trained there for six years in eurhythmy. A pivotal figure in the butoh world, since his return to Japan, he has cultivated his own highly idiosyncratic style of dance, pushing the envelope of butoh by mixing in elements as diverse as German eurhythmy, kabuki and hip-hop. Akira Kasai, born in 1943, originally studied … Continued

cokaseki

Berlin-based group cokaseki is led by Yuko Kaseki (choreographer/dancer) and Marc Ates (choreographer/director)w, ho have performed their work throughout Europe,J apan and the U.S. Their last production Ame to Ame was nominated for Visual design at the 2005 Isadora Duncan Dance Awards in San Francisco- the piece received the Award for ‘Best Ensemble Work’. www.cokaseki.com

Masaki Iwana

Masaki lwana began his dance career in 1975 outside the “butoh genealogy.” Until 1982 he presented 150 experimental performances in which he stood straight, completely naked and perfectly still. Since then, lwana has presented his performances and workshops in 38 countries and has created works which are built on his sharpened aesthetic. Iwana runs an institute for the research of butoh, La Maison du Butoh Blanc, in Normandy, France since 1995. www.iwanabutoh.com

Katsura Kan

Kan Katsura, a native of Kyoto born in 1948, is a butoh dancer from Japan’s third generation of ankoku butoh (dance of darkness). He performed with the seminal butoh troupe, Byakkoshakn own for its austerity and integrity, rather than the theatrical glamour other troupes became known for. He is a celebrated solo and collaborative performer as well as choreographer and he established his own group KATSURA Kan & Saltimbanques in 1986. Kan has worked with what he calls “minority dancers” all over the world, in remote locations from Africa to South East Asia, for the past 26 years.

Jack Wright

Jack Wright, a musical explorer for the past twenty years, plays alto, tenor, and sopranos axes, contralto clarinet, and piano, in every possible direction, but rarely what is recognizable.

Azumaru

Azumaru is a rising star of the butoh dance world. In 1999 he became a member of the acclaimed butoh group Dairakudakan and began training with its legendary director Akaji Maro. He choreographed his first performance S,uccession of the Beast, in 2003. In 2005 he left Dairakudakan to pursue a solo career.

Daisuke Yoshimoto

Born in 1941, Daisuke Yoshimoto has collaborated with the greatest artists of butoh, such as Kazuo Ohno, Hisayo lwaki and Yukihiko Sakai. Primarily a solo artist, over the past twenty years he has carved out his own unique and theatrical style. Based in Tokyo, he tours and teaches workshops internationally. Eros and Thanatos premiered in 2004 at the Grotowski Center in Poland and subsequently toured to Spain. Daisuke Yoshimoto’s dance experience also includes collaborations with Kazuo Ohno, Hisayo Iwaki, and Shoji Kojima. Primarily a solo artist, over the past 20 years he has carved out his own unique theatrical style, … Continued

Yumiko Yoshioka

Yumiko Yoshioka was a founding member of the first all-female butoh company Ariadone and has been instrumental in bringing butoh to Europe first with Ariadone in Paris in 1978 and then in Berlin with tatoeba THEATRE DANSE GROTESQUE (1988-1994). She has toured and taught extensively in Japan, Europe, Russia Israel and both North and South America and presently is based at schloss broellin in eastern Germany where she runs the company TEN PEN Chii art labor with visual artist Joachim Manger and musician Zam Johnson. Since 1995 she also has been an artistic director of “eX .. it! Dance Exchange … Continued

Ko Murobushi

Ko Murobushi trained and performed with butoh’s creator Tatsumi Hijikata and was a founding member of Dairakudakan, the longest-running butoh company. His influential group Ariadone introduced Europe to butoh in 1978. Based in Japan, he leads the Edge Company and tours internationally throughout Europe and South America. Ko Murobushi trained and performed with butoh’s creator Tatsumi Hijikata and was a founding member of Dairakudakan, the longest-running butoh company. In 1974, he founded the female butoh company Ariadone with Carlotta Ikeda; two years later he founded Sebi, a corresponding all-male butoh group. In 1978, Murobushi introduced butoh to Europe with a … Continued

Juan Merchan

Juan Merchan es un actor, director y diseñador de iluminación teatral. Desarrolló su trabajo como diseñador, principalmente en el Teatro La Mama de Nueva York durante 18 años. Fue Co-fundador, y Co-curador del Festival Internacional de Butoh de Nueva York. Hizo el diseño de iluminación para varias compañias, como el Zendora Dance Company, Great Jones Repertory, Pioneers Go East Collective, Sonia Olla Flamenco Company, Brooklyn United Ensemble, la compañía Filipina Kinding Sindaw Company, entre otras. También diseñó la iluminación y escenografía para varias producciones del Phoenix Theatre Ensemble de Nueva York. Recientemente trabajo en nueva York en la iluminación para … Continued

Jeremy Slater

Jeremy Slater is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net.

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