CAVE Organization, Inc. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CAVE TRAINING & PERFORMANCE SEASON LUDUS: NEW YORK BUTOH KAN TEACHING RESIDENCY + TRAINING INITIATIVE AT HOME: CAVE PERFORMANCE SEASON New York, NY — CAVE is pleased to announce the continuation of its 2010 training program and performance season. LUDUS (school + play) is the educational program of CAVE and its resident company LEIMAY. The core of the program is the New York Butoh Kan (NYBK) Teaching Residency + Training Initiative. Every year, influential butoh artists living abroad are invited to lead workshops as resident teachers at CAVE. This year’s residents are Mari Osanai, Yukio Waguri, Imre Thormann and Yukio Suzuki. All residents will lead both introductory and intensive sessions, open to dancers, actors and performers. NYBK-related activities include LEIMAY Open Training, lead by Ximena Garnica, and lectures by and interviews with our resident teachers. Resident teachers will also 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. At Home is also organized in order to support the work of CAVE residents and local artists and as supplement to CAVE’s educational activities. All activities will take place at CAVE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. For full details about Ludus: New York Butoh Kan Teaching Residency + Training Initiative and At Home: CAVE Performance Season, to purchase tickets and to register for workshops, please visit our website, or call 347.838.4677, or email us. 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 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: December 3, 4 & 5 Time: 8 p.m. Cost: $18 for adults; $15 for NYBK students, students with valid ID and seniors BUTOH WORKSHOPS Mari Osanai Introductory Session Dates: 13 – 15 August Times: Friday 6 – 10 p.m. / Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $240 Noguchi Taizo (Noguchi Gymnastics) Mari Osanai Intensive Session Dates: 16 – 26 August (day off: 24 August) Times: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $580 Noguchi Taiso for Dancers In this session, Mari Osanai will share with the students the ways in which she applies Noguchi Taiso to dancing and training. Mind and body awareness of the weight of each body part, of the natural elements and its infinitive presence in the body will be explored in this session in which each body part is viewed and approached as a unique laboratory. Yukio Waguri Introductory Session Dates: 10 – 12 September Times: Friday 6 – 10 p.m. / Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $240 Words & Movement. The Two Elements That Bring into Existence Butoh. Participants will seek the butoh way of body according to Tatsumi Hijikata’s method. Thinking of the body as a medium and as a transfiguring container, the students will experience the seven butoh worlds with Waguri’s Butoh Kaden. Yukio Waguri Intensive Session Dates: 16 – 26 September (day off: 21 September) Times: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $580 Dancing Hijikata’s Butoh This session will deepen the understanding of the Butoh notation of the seven worlds. At the same time, students will be encouraged to develop a clear working relationship between space and time and practice reserving the power to take an objective analysis of their dances. Imre Thormann Introductory Session Dates: 1 – 3 October Times: Friday 6 – 10 p.m. / Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $240 Imre Thormann Intensive Session Dates: 7 – 17 October (day off: 12 October) Times: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $580 Butoh and Noguchi Taizo Introductory and Intensive Sessions will deal with Thormann’s statement, “In my workshop I do not convey any fixed form or technique, but the natural principles that form the basis of movement (spiral, wave, gravity, emotion, etc.). We will focus on movements like standing and walking, as well as on emotional forms of expression. We will establish a basis that will enable us to exchange conventional patterns of movement for fresh approaches that will help us to execute movements easily but with a deeper sensation.” Yukio Suzuki Introductory Session Dates: 22 – 24 October Times: Friday 6 – 10 p.m. / Saturday & Sunday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $240 Re-construction of Your Body Students will learn how to be aware of and move the body, according to butoh principles, so as to gradually betray their habitual movements and way of thinking. That is, to try to change the texture of the body as a thing. Then, to play with the new thing. Yukio Suzuki Intensive Session Dates: 28 October – 7 November (day off: 2 November) Times: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Cost: $580 Standing and Disable Standing DROP IN CLASSES LEIMAY Open Training Times: 3 p.m. – 7 p.m. Lead by Artistic Director Ximena Garnica, LEIMAY Open Training will take place every Saturday during the months of August, October and November. This class is an opportunity to experience the company’s ongoing training and to be considered for LEIMAY performance and investigation projects. INTERVIEWS AND LECTURES Mari Osanai interview with Ximena Garnica Date: 24 August Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free Yukio Waguri lecture on Butoh Date: 21 September Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free Imre Thormann lecture on Noguchi Date: 12 October Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free Yukio Suzuki interview with Ximena Garnica Date: 2 November Time: 7:30 p.m. Cost: Free ARTIST 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. Yukio Waguri was the main male dancer at Tatsumi Hijikata’s Asbestos-kan from 1972 to 1978. From this period, he kept notes of the words Hijikata-butoh’s co-founder-spoke while choreographing. These words are called Butoh-fu, a unique method for choreography. Waguri has made his own interpretation of these words and continues to use them as a method for his own choreography and teaching. Over the past 28 years he has taught and choreographed around the world. He is the Artistic Director of the Kohzensha Butoh Company. 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. Yukio Suzuki is one of Japan’s most exciting choreographers and dancers. He studied butoh at the “Karada no Gakko” of the Asbestos-kan 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 award in 2008. Ximena Garnica is the Artistic Director of LEIMAY, an interdisciplinary project company and laboratory of performance in residence at CAVE. A student of theatre since childhood, Garnica has been exploring butoh for the past decade. Her work questions the body as a medium and dance, theater, and/or installation as a genre. ABOUT CAVE Founded in 1996, CAVE is one of the longest-running experimental art spaces in the Williamsburg, Brooklyn. CAVE strives to provide an explorative arena and support system for artistic development by hosting studio workspace, educational workshops, performance opportunities and assistance in the realization of projects that support risk taking in the in visual, media and performing arts. SUPPORT The New York Butoh Kan Teaching Residency + Training Initiative is made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Arts. CAVE performances and workshop presentations are supported in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. CAVE performance season in made possible with public funds from the New York State Council of the Arts, a state agency. PRESS MATERIALS AND CONTACT Click here to access an article about NYBK 2010. For addition information and high-resolution photographs, please contact Jacqueline Mabey at butoh@caveartspace.org.
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