Theresa Magario tm is an introvert native of Massachusetts who improbably found their way from visual arts and writing onto the performance art stage. They explored stagecraft at CAVE, Brooklyn New York from 2008-2012 under the instruction of teachers renowned in their fields of practice such as butoh and noguchi taiso.

Cassie Terman is a performer, writer, and teacher. She has worked in improvisation, physical theater and dance since 1991 and regularly performs, solo works as well as collaborations with company SoGoNo, Schinichi Iova-Koga, and Heather Harpham. She teaches Action theater.

Kelly Buwalda currently dances for Antonio Ramos, Stephanie Tack, Amanda Dozer, and Julio Rivera. She teaches with National Dance Institute in NYC Public Schools of the Bronx, Harlem, Chinatown, and the US. Most recently she has performed her own work in at the University of San Juan, Puerto Rico, BAX and in Movement Research’s Open Performance.

Mei Yin Ng has had the privilege of working and collaborating with Remote Control Productions/Michael Laub in Europe, Nyo-Ba &Dancers in Malaysia, & AMEYE in New York City. She founded MEl-BE Whatever Company (www.MeiBeWhatever.com) in 2002 as a collective for the interaction of artists from diverse fields. Initially focusing on modern movement as inner being, Ms. Ng’s work continues to evolve with the possibilities of contemporary technologies.

Jorge Vazquez Villarreal was born and lives in Mexico. He started his artistic studies at the National Conservatory of Music in 1999. He joined Diego Pinon’s Butoh Ritual Mexicano in 2003, and has also trained in Butoh with Akira Kasai and Natsue Nakajima. He studies Kabuki with Irene Akikolida.

Amanda K. Ringger has lived in New York for the past 12 years designing locally, nationally and internationally with artists such as Laura Peterson, Faye Driscoll, Julian Barnett, Alexandra Beller. Kota Yamazaki. Deborah Lose, Cynthia Oliver, Clare Byrne, Antonietta Vicario, Darrah Carr, Karen Love/Umoja, and Mark Jarecke, among others. She received a BA from Goucher College in Baltimore, MD and an MFA in lighting design from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.

Christopher DeLaurenti is a composer, improvisor, phonographer, and music writer. Concerning his work, he writes, “My music, the offspring of my love affair with sound, incorporates murky atmospheres, unusual field recordings, everyday speech, and an array of instruments deployed in maniacal recombinant polyphony.” (delaurenti.net)

Photographer for cokaseki: Tooboe (Howl) (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Musician for for Masaki lwana

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Music for Masaki lwana: Beast of Grass (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha ButohDance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Koichi & Hiroko Tamano are the directors of Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theatre, which they started in 1972. Former students of butoh founder Tatsumi Hijikata, the Tamanos’ devotion to the mastery of dance is expressed through works that are at once beautiful, graceful, shocking and grotesque.

Minako Seki was born in Nagasaki, from 1985 a dancer for Butoh-Dance-Company DANCE-LOVE-MACHINE, directed by Tetsuro tamura, preformed in Europe with this production in 1986. In 1987 she was co-founder of tatoeba – THEATER DANSE GROTESQUE, the first German-Japanese Butoh Ensemble (Berlin) She has taught workshops in Berlin, Santiago de Chile, Bolivia, Japan, San Fransisco and New York.