Festival Opening Celebration NYBF 2005
CAVEnsemble
NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL 2005 PERFORMANCE
8:00pm
Partial View of an Elusive Presence
A Tableau punctuated by sound, gesture and dance A performance installation by CAVEnsemble with the New York Soundpainting Orchestra and visiting festival dancers exploring the ambivalent and generative relations of the conscious and unconscious. Partial View of an Elusive Presence is inspired by Shige Moriya’s Floating Forest Installation – Performance
9:15pm
A short improvisation with videographer Shige Moriya, dancers Juan Merchan and Ximena Garnica Gomez with a sound landscape by Jeremy Slater.
10:00 – 11 :00pm
DJ Party
Beer courtesy of Kirin Beer the official Beer Sponsor of the festival.
CAVEnsemble is joined by a variety of special guests and local butoh dancers to collectively create a series of performance installations spread throughout CAVE’s multiple rooms. These tableaux are a reflection of the ambivalence of the conscious and the unconscious – creating together a ceremony that rediscovers the pulse of our existence.
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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Premiere Venue
CAVE10/13/2005
58 Grand St - Brooklyn, NY 11249
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Partial View of an Elusive Presence
CAVEnsemble Artistic Directors:
Ximena Garnica Gomez, Juan Merchan
CAVEnsemble and special Guest Performers:
Marc Ates
Azumaru
Yuko Kaseki
Shinichi MOMO Koga
Tanya Calamoneri
Juan Merchan
Zachary Grace Model
Costume Designer:
Anna-Alisa Belous
Installation by:
Ximena Garnica Gomez, Juan Merchan
New York Soundpainting Orchestra Composer:
Evan Mazunik
New York Soundpainting Orchestra Musicians:
Caitlin Jemison – vocals
Eric John Eigner – percussion/clarinet
Christian Pincock – trombone
Sam Kulik – trombone
Lily Maase – guitar
Gil Selinger – cello/assistant Soundpainter
Michael Bates – double bass
Youen Cadiou – double bass
A short improvisation with videographer Shige Moriya, dancers Juan Merchan and Ximena Garnica Gomez with a sound landscape by Jeremy Slater.
Guest Artist Improvisation by:
Dancers:
Marc Ates, Azumaru, Yuko Kaseki
Shinichi MOMO Koga, Tanya Calamoneri
Musicians:
Tatsuya Nakatani, Kaoru Watanabe
Structure:
Marc Ates
10:00 – 11 :00pm
DJ Party
Beer courtesy of Kirin Beer the official Beer Sponsor of the festival.
Piotr Redlinski Festival Videographers
: Shige Moriya
and Catalina Santamaria
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
Publicist
Aaron Rosenblum
Box Office Manager
Kristin Narcowich
Festival Bookkeeper
Shiho Kondo
Merchandise Coordinators
Hiromi luchi
Michelle Danna
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
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.
