Piotr Redlinski

Piotr Redlinski was born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland. He moved to New York City in 1987 where he currently resides. After graduating with a B.A. in ARCHITECTURE from COOPER UNION, a unique New York art school renowned for its synthesis of science and art, Redlinski pursued his growing interest in multiculturalism by moving to Asia. Upon his return to New York City, Redlinski has worked primarily as a photographer and a journalist. Redlinski’s work spans a variety of categories from portraiture and architecture to fine arts and reportage.

Denisa Musilova

Denisa Musilova (born: Czech Republic), is dancer and certified as: Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis teacher. Currently dancer in Deganit Shemy company and Garnica LEIMAY.

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.

Amanda K. Ringger

Amanda K. Ringger has lived in New York for the past 12 years designing locally, nationally and internationally with artists such as Laura Peterson, Faye Driscoll, Julian Barnett, Alexandra Beller. Kota Yamazaki. Deborah Lose, Cynthia Oliver, Clare Byrne, Antonietta Vicario, Darrah Carr, Karen Love/Umoja, and Mark Jarecke, among others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA in lighting design from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Charles Christophe

Christopher DeLaurenti is a composer, improvisor, phonographer, and music writer. Concerning his work, he writes, “My music, the offspring of my love affair with sound, incorporates murky atmospheres, unusual field recordings, everyday speech, and an array of instruments deployed in maniacal recombinant polyphony.” (delaurenti.net)

Leigh Evans

LEIGH EVANS is an international yoga teacher and dancer. Her dance/theatre-work is fed by fascination with performance and meditative traditions of Asia. LEIGH EVANS is an international yoga teacher and dancer. Her dance/theatre-work is fed by fascination with performance and meditative traditions of Asia.

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

Steven Carlino

Steven Carlino is a butoh influenced multi- disciplinary performance artist. Performed and collaborated with punk, noise avante-jazz bands in the Midwest, designing sound for dance/theater.

Megan Nicely

Megan Nicely is a dancer/choreographer and educator. After many years directing her company in the bay area she is currently pursuing her Ph.D in Performance Studies at NYU.

Morgan von Pecelli

MORGAN VON PRELLE PECELLI works as curator, producer, anthropologist and artist in NYC. www.lostnotebok.org

Bill Mullen

Bill Mullen is a visual artist working in NY, has studied/performed with Takuya Muramatsu (Dairakudakan), has been an active participant in the Butoh-Kan training, Program at CAVE.

Stephanie Lanckton

Stephanie Lanckton is a dancer/choreographer, trained in Ballet/Modern/Capoeira/Hip-hop. Graduated from Point Park College, attended Intelochen Arts Academy, is a certified Pilates instructor. Performed with Akira Kasai, in “Butoh America”(2007).

Dola Baroni

A. Dola Baroni is an LA based artist, photographer, choreographer, curator and director who represents the West Coast and bleeds Laker Purple.

Jonothon Lyons

JONOTHON LYONS is a company member of Imago Theater Mask Ensemble (3yrs), he has performed with LEIMAY and Mari Osanai; participating in several sessions of the NY Butoh-Kan.

Teerawat Mulvilai

Teerawat Mulvilai (Aka Kage) (Thailand) – Theater director/dancer, Artistic Director\Co-Founder of B-Floor Theatre. Lincoln Center Director’s Lab 2009 trained in Butoh, Top Ma Pab (Northern Thai Martial Art), Viewpoints, and modern dance.

Mana Hashimoto

Mana Hashimoto (born: Tokyo) trained in ballet, piano composition and modern dance: New England Conservatory, Berklee Academy of Music and Martha Graham School. She began losing sight at 17, continuing performances/organizing dance for the visually impaired.

Irem Calikusu

Irem Calikusu’s life as a dancer started in Istanbul, at the Theater Research Lab with Mustafa Kaplan. Being deeply moved by a butoh performance she saw in Istanbul, she went on to complete a Master’s thesis on but and post war politics in Japan at the Anthropology Department of Mass, Amherst. She has studied with Akira Kasai, Ko Murobushi, and Takuya Muramatsu as well as trained for 2 years at the Cunningham School for Dance. Her biggest inspiration was the 5 months she spent training with Min Tanaka at the Body Weather Farm. Irem has been showing her own work … Continued

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 relationship to the environment and society. Erin has greeted and collaborated on site specific dance performances in gardens, galleries, warehouse spaces, boats and theaters across the U.S.and Europe and created commissioned work for LaMama in New York and Schloss Bröllin in Germany. Also Founding member of RansomCorp. Active from 1999-20002. Erin … Continued

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

Mari Osanai

Mari Osanai is trained in classical ballet, Noguchi Gymnastics, yoga, tai chi, and hip hop. Her unique movements are realized through interweaving these diverse techniques with the philosophy and practice of Noguchi Gymnastics.

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

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

Zack Fuller

Zack Fuller is a DIY dancer/choreographer and self-taught musician. From 1985-1986 he was the lead singer for the Washington DC post-punk psychedelic metal band Scythian, sharing stages with groups such as Bad Brains, Black Market Baby, and Pussy Galore. He has performed in many dances under the direction of Min Tanaka, including Poe Project in 1997. He co-headlined the 2019 Boston Butoh Festival with Yuko Kaseki, and his dances have been presented at Leimay/CAVE, Movement Research at Judson Church, Plan B in Tokyo, Mobius in Boston, The Dance Hakushu Festival, The New England Conservatory of Music, and elsewhere.

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

Denisa Musilova

Is a performer and choreographer; a 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2022 Watermill Center Alumni Mini-Retreat, having performed at the Watermill Gala in 2019. Her newest work, POOL, was commissioned and presented at the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival and the Voices International Theater Festival in June 2023. She has also presented works at The Tank, Dixon Place, La MaMa, NY Butoh Festival, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Next@Graham, Czech Center NY, Triskelion Arts, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater, and Theater Akropolis Prague. As a performer, … 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