CAVE Presents BUTOH-KAN PHASE 10/23 Thru 11/25

From October 23 to November 25, 2009, CAVE will present its fourth biennial Butoh Festival, "The CAVE New York Butoh Festival -- Butoh-kan Phase" (nybf09.caveartspace.org), to celebrate and promote the origins and international evolution of Butoh Dance while strengthening the local community with performances, workshops, and conversations with the artists. Events will be presented at Dixon Place in SoHo, Dance New Amsterdam in TriBeCa and CAVE in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Butoh-kan is the training program of CAVE and its resident performance company Garnica LEIMAY, which is now two years old. Butoh-kan offers rigorous physical training and enriches students with first person contact with international masters. It is an integrative training opportunity for the dancers, actors and interdisciplinary performers, creating a platform for the future development of new work. Intensive training sessions have been conducted at CAVE's studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the last two years.

This year's festival presents a striking roster of master teachers and performers. With performances, artist talks, workshops and participatory opportunities for scholars, it offers a unique platform for the development of local dancers and encourages active dialogue on Butoh's origins, evolution and global status.

CAVE
58 Grand Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211.
(212) 561.7320 (718) 388.6780 (nybf09.caveartspace.org)

DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM (DNA)
280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers)
New York, NY 10007
Phone: (212) 625.8369 (www.dnadance.org)

DIXON PLACE
161A Chrystie St.
New York, NY 10002
(212) 219.0736 (www.dixon.org)

For more information, visit nybf09.caveartspace.org.

The New York Butoh Festival is a program of CAVE Organization, one of the longest running experimental art spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since 1996, it has produced hundreds of art exhibitions, multi-media installations and performances. A not-for-profit organization, it functions as an artist-in-residence studio and performance space. (www.CAVEartspace.org).

This year's international Butoh-kan master series is co-presented by Dance New Amsterdam (DNA), a major contemporary dance center that present and promotes artistic excellence in dance performance, education and the creation process

"Furnace," the production commissioned by this year's festival, is co-presented by Dixon Place, a home for performing and literary artists dedicated to supporting the creative process by presenting original works of theater, dance and literature.

CAVE directors are Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. The festival is located in three venues. Events are listed in accordance with the venue they will be presented in.