2007
NEW YORK
BUTOH FESTIVAL
BUTOH FESTIVAL
The 3rd Biennial New York Butoh Festival
October 27 to November 18, 2007
“The New York Butoh Festival allowed connoisseurs and novices alike to steep themselves in this enigmatic dance… You couldn't explain it, perhaps, but the raw experience was undeniable.”
-- The New York Times
The CAVE New York Butoh Festival celebrates the origins and international evolution of butoh in a biennial series of performances, workshops, films and lectures. Held in conjunction with Japan Society’s Kazuo Ohno 101 – a three week celebration of the 101st birthday of the legendary co-founder of the butoh movement – the 2007 CAVE New York Butoh Festival will build upon the successes of the past two sold-out festivals, and will feature three weeks of activities, including the following highlights:
Considered one of Japan's major contributions to the performing arts of the 20th century, butoh is an avant-garde performance form that originated in the late 1950s and evolved in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape. Over the last few decades, butoh as an art form has evolved to include individual artists and groups devoted to teaching and performing not only in Japan, but throughout the world. Butoh defies easy definition and embraces paradox. It fuses the traditional with the avant¬ garde, complex choreography with improvisation, and wild physicality with meditative stillness. The CAVE New York Butoh Festival is dedicated to exposing audiences to the diversity of this potent contemporary art form that challenges conventional definitions of dance and theater.
The New York Butoh Festival is produced by CAVE Organization, one of the longest running experimental art spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Click here for the 2005 Festival website
October 27 to November 18, 2007
“The New York Butoh Festival allowed connoisseurs and novices alike to steep themselves in this enigmatic dance… You couldn't explain it, perhaps, but the raw experience was undeniable.”
-- The New York Times
The CAVE New York Butoh Festival celebrates the origins and international evolution of butoh in a biennial series of performances, workshops, films and lectures. Held in conjunction with Japan Society’s Kazuo Ohno 101 – a three week celebration of the 101st birthday of the legendary co-founder of the butoh movement – the 2007 CAVE New York Butoh Festival will build upon the successes of the past two sold-out festivals, and will feature three weeks of activities, including the following highlights:
- Three weeks of performances at CAVE, The Noguchi Museum, PS 122 and Theater for the New City.
- Photo exhibits at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and SAFE-T-GALLERY in DUMBO, Brooklyn.
- Expanded educational programming, including: a film series of rare documentaries and avant-garde films at Anthology Film Archives; lectures at the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/CUNY Graduate Center by prominent artists and dance critics; and master butoh workshops at Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research and Noguchi Museum.
Considered one of Japan's major contributions to the performing arts of the 20th century, butoh is an avant-garde performance form that originated in the late 1950s and evolved in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape. Over the last few decades, butoh as an art form has evolved to include individual artists and groups devoted to teaching and performing not only in Japan, but throughout the world. Butoh defies easy definition and embraces paradox. It fuses the traditional with the avant¬ garde, complex choreography with improvisation, and wild physicality with meditative stillness. The CAVE New York Butoh Festival is dedicated to exposing audiences to the diversity of this potent contemporary art form that challenges conventional definitions of dance and theater.
The New York Butoh Festival is produced by CAVE Organization, one of the longest running experimental art spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Click here for the 2005 Festival website