Handsome Blue Sky (Bibo no aozora)

Choreographer/Director
Ko Murobushi

Performers
Ko Murobushi
Daiji Meguro
Yukio Suzuki
Sadayuki Hayashi

Music
Osamu GOTO/original, Metal
Zizi Possi/Passione “Gelsomina ”
Soviet France:/ln. Version “In.Version”
Barbra Streisand/Classical Barbra,” In Trutina”

Lighting Designer
Masaaki Aikawa

Sound Engineer
TAK-HEY Aoki

Sound Operator
Maya Araki

Production & Company Manager
Junko Hanamitsu

Associate Production Manager
Ayako Tsuchiya

Piotr Redlinski
Festival Videographers: Shige Moriya and Catalina Santamaria

Production & Company Manager: Junko Hanamitsu;
Associate Production Manager: Ayako Tsuchiya

The North American tour of Ko Murobushi & Edge Co.’s Handsome Blue Sky is organized by the Japan Society, and is supported by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Japan and The Japan Foundation through Performing Arts JAPAN program.

Japan Society Fall 2005 Performing Arts Programs are made possible in part by The Starr Foundation; the Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Endowment Fund; the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; and The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc. Programs also made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency. — Presented by Japan Society in conjunction with the 2005 New York Butoh Festival.

“CAVE NY BUTOH FESTIVAL TEAM
Directors
Ximena Garnica Gomez
Jeff Janisheski

Producer
Zachary Grace Model

Associate Producers
Gabriele Schafer
Audra Lang

Curators/Founders
Ximena Garnica Gomez
Jeff Janisheski
Juan Merchan
Zachary Grace Model

Fundraising Associate/Panel Coordinator
Tanya Calamoneri

Technical Director/Lighting Designer
Scott Bolman

Web Master/Festival Photographer
Joshua Weiner

Publicist
Aaron Rosenblum

Workshop Manager
Christine Coleman

Box Office Manager
Kristin Narcowich

Festival Bookkeeper
Shiho Kondo

Merchandise Coordinators
Hiromi luchi
Michelle Danna

Graphic/Web Designers
Yumi Asai (postcard and brochure)
Leila Cardenas (festival logo and website)
Hiromi luchi (festival T-shirt)
Sean Zwier (poster and program cover)

Festival Videographers
Shige Moriya
Catalina Santamaria

Stage Manager
Fred Hemminger

Assistant Stage Manager
David Boylan

Stage Crew
Tanya Calamoneri
Scott Piscitelli
David Slaza

Translators/Assistants
Tara Hassel
Chie Otsuka

CAVE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF
Artistic Director/Founder
Shige Mariya

Executive Director
Ximena Garnica Gomez

Executive Assistant
Audra Lang
Bookkeeper
Shiho Kondo

CAVE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President
Shige Moriya

Vice President
Zachary Grace Model

Treasurer/Secretary
Ximena Garnica Gomez

Officer
Juan Merchan

Thanks to the partnering venues and their staff who have helped to make this 2005 festival a success:
Anthology Film Archives
John Mhiripiri, Jonas Mekas and the staff.

Japan Society

Yoko Shioya Dawn Eshelman Futoshi Miyai,
Aya Ogawa, Mikiko Takeuchi and the staff.

Thanks to the following individuals for their assistance:
Anna Belous; Dance Theater Workshop and Megan
Sprenger; Kurt Gottschalk; Johanna Mochidome;
Allen Model; and Teiko Seki and Bob Guthrie.
We extend our deepest thanks to our box office staff,
technical staff, and all CAVE volunteers, without whom
the festival and CAVE’s programs would not be possible.

And to Shige — thank you!