Slice

SLICE is a fleshy video art production created by Swedish choreographer and butoh artist SU-EN in collaboraton with video artist Rickard Sporrong. The two artists have aimed to present the body as a living organism, a body where the inside and the outside are mixed in with each other, where movement and the living materials become one. The video production SLICE plays a main part in the SU-EN Butoh Company is solo dance production with the same title which has been performed around the world. The soundtrack in the film and the stage performance is composed by British composer Lee Berwick.

The first New York Butoh Festival was a festival celebrating the origins and the international evolution of this vital form. Butoh dance emerged in post-World War II Japan and has become a worldwide movement influencing artists in many disciplines. This festival presented emerging artists and established masters from Japan, Europe and the Eastern and Western coasts of the U.S. The New York Butoh Festival served as an East Coast hub for a growing regional and international network of butoh performers and audiences, and was presented by CAVE Organization, the oldest existing experimental art space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Since its conception in 1996 as an artists-in-residence, gallery and performance space, the CAVE has confronted the complex challenges and possibilities of the urban landscape.

The New York Butoh Festival reflects the organization’s intention to attract, provoke and support exploration, generative confrontation and collaboration among artists and audiences from diverse disciplines and cultures. This festival was created through donated work, and we are grateful to the performers, staff and volunteers who have made it possible.