Fall Butoh Performance Series

Fall Butoh Performance Season
Solo dance performances by international butoh artists.

About
The resident teachers of New York Butoh Kan 2010-Mari Osanai, Imre Thormann, Yukio Suzuki, and LEIMAY-will be performing as a part of CAVE's At Home Performance Series. This series showcases established butoh artists, those widely recognized figures in the contemporary dissemination of butoh styles and techniques. Click here to learn more about New York Butoh Kan 2010.

Performances
Dance by Mari Osani
Dates: 28 & 29 August
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: $18 for adults; $15 for NYBK students, students with valid ID and seniors

Dance by Imre Thormann
Dates: 20 & 21 October
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: $18 for adults; $15 for NYBK students, students with valid ID and seniors

Dance by Yukio Suzuki
Dates: 10 & 11 November
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: $18 for adults; $15 for NYBK students, students with valid ID and seniors

Performance by LEIMAY
Date: 3, 4 & 5 December
Time: 8 p.m.
Cost: $18 for adults; $15 for NYBK students, students with valid ID and seniors

Biographies
Mari Osanai lives in Japan. She trained in Classical Ballet, Noguchi Taizo, Yoga, Tai Chi, Hip Hop, Aomori Tsugarou Teodori and Jazz. Her unique movements and original style are realized through interweaving these diverse techniques. Two teachers who have greatly influenced her artistic path are Michizo Noguchi, the founder of Noguchi Taizo, and Hironobu Oikawa, one of the most important contemporary Japanese dance teachers. She has taught and presented her work in Greece, Canada, Japan and the Unites States.

Imre Thorman completed his education in the F.M. Alexander technique in 1990. Soon after, he relocated to Tokyo. He spent seven years learning Japanese and studying with butoh co-founder Kazuo Ohno and with Noguchi Taizo founder Michizou Noguchi. His experience with these three methodologies converged to create his unique dance approach and teaching method. Since 1993, he has put on several butoh solo performances in Europe as well as in Japan and initiated the Japan Now Festival in Bern (Switzerland) and Gdansk (Poland), together with Shigeo Makabe. He currently lives and works in Berlin and travels throughout Europe teaching and performing.

One of Japan’s most exciting choreographers and dancers, Yukio Suzuki studied butoh at the “Karada no Gakko” of the Asbestos-kan (base of the original founder of butoh, Tatsumi Hijikata) and from Ko Murobushi. While leading his own company Kingyo, Suzuki also dances for Ko Murobushi’s company Ko & Edge Co. and has danced for Tuyoshi Shirai, Goro Namerikawa (the starting member of Sankaijuku), and in the performance group SAL-VANILLA. Recently, he has choreographed for other companies including the Tokyo City Ballet, participated in the final Next-Next program of the Saison Foundation, and won the Choreographer of the Next Generation (grand prize) award in 2008. Although CAVE has been following Suzuki’s work for several years, this is the first time CAVE invites him to teach and perform.

LEIMAY is the parapluie for Shige Moriya art works, Ximena Garnica art works and the collaboration work between these two artists. Works range from photography, to video art, art installations, dance-theater pieces, inter-disciplinary collaborations and training projects. LEIMAY is a made-up word based on a Japanese term meaning the moment of change (as in the moment between darkness and the light at dawn; also the time of change between eras. LEIMAY is a project of the experimental and contemporary art and performance space known as CAVE.

To view previous performances at CAVE, please click here.