Handsome Blue Sky (Bibo no aozora)
Ko Murobushi
NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL 2005 PERFORMANCE
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. (U.S. Premiere) An investigation into the works of Tatsumi Hijikata. Presented by Japan Society in conjunction with the 2005 New York Butoh Festival.
The 2nd biennial CAVE New York Butoh Festival was a three-week festival celebrating the origins and international evolution of butoh in a series of performances, workshops, films and lectures. Butoh is a contemporary dance form that emerged in Japan and is now created worldwide. Fusing the traditional with the avant-garde, complex choreography with improvisation, wild physicality with meditative illness, butoh defies easy definition and embraces paradox. The 2005 festival showcased Japan, Germany, France, Colombia, San Francisco and New York. Because we were the only festival in the United States presenting butoh’s international spectrum, it was a rare chance to see a number of these legendary dancers perform, some for the first time in New York.
The festival was presented by CAVE Organization. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Shige Moriya, CAVE has produced more than 300 visual art exhibitions, multi-media installations, workshops and performances throughout the last nine years. In 2003 CAVE became a not-for-profit organization and received a Ford Foundation grant to launch a year long Vietnamese Artist-in-Residence Program. The New York Butoh Festival is a natural outgrowth of CAVE’s ongoing commitment to presenting international art and to promoting interdisciplinary and multicultural exchange.
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(U.S. Premiere)
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2005Performance dates
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EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Japan Society10/6/2005 - 10/8/2005
333 East 47th Street - NY, NY
Premiere Venue specific dates
Choreographer/Director
Ko Murobushi
Performers
Ko Murobushi
Daiji Meguro
Yukio Suzuki
Sadayuki Hayashi
Music
Osamu GOTO/original, Metal
Zizi Possi/Passione “Gelsomina ”
:zovietllfrance:/ln. Version “I n.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.
We are honored to partner with a variety of venues that are co-producing or hosting festival events. Our thanks go out to: Anthology Film Archives, Japan Society, The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/CUNY Graduate Center, Panetta Movement Center, The Puffin Room and Theater for the New City.
We would like to express our deep gratitude to the following foundations, corporations and individuals who have so generously_ supported the festival and its participating artists: The Berlin Senate Administration for Science, Research and Culture; Gen Restaurant; Japan Foundation; Kirin Beer (our official Beer Sponsor); Materials for the Arts; Mr. Tatsuo Kubota; the Rockefeller Foundation Multi-Arts Production/MAP Fund; Mertz-Gilmore Foundation; Pranayama Arts Inc.; Taiyo Pacific Partners LP, UNIQLO (our official Corporate Sponsor); and the Village Voice (our 2005 Media Partner).
Our overwhelming thanks also go out to the festival artists, staff and those who have made this festival possible through their tremendous commitment. CAVE could not exist without their dedication.
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!”
