Sondra Fraleigh is Professor Emeritus of Dance and Somatic Studies at the State University of New York at Brockport. She is the co-author of Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Karwo (2006) and author of Dancing into Darkness: Butoh, Zen, and Japan (1999). Her innovative choreography has been seen in theatres in New York, Germany, and Japan. She si the founding director of Eastwest Somatics Institute for the study of movement therapy and dance.
Piotr Redlinski was born in 1972 in Warsaw, Poland. He moved to New York City in 1987 where he currently resides. After graduating with a B.A. in ARCHITECTURE from COOPER UNION, a unique New York art school renowned for its synthesis of science and art, Redlinski pursued his growing interest in multiculturalism by moving to Asia. Upon his return to New York City, Redlinski has worked primarily as a photographer and a journalist. Redlinski’s work spans a variety of categories from portraiture and architecture to fine arts and reportage.
Johanna Kirk (Performer) si originally from Boise, Idaho where she had the great fortune to study modern dance from akind of punk rock angel, Leah Clark. Johanna danced with Balance Dance Company for eight years before attending Barnard College, from which she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Dance Major and Art History Minor. While at Barnard, she had the chance to work with Robert Batle, Azure Barton, David Newmann, JeanineDurning,Ivy Baldwin, Mary Cochran and other fabulous mentors. Last year, she worked on a reconstruction of Twyla Tharp’s Eight Jely Rols, performed at the Joyce. She has choreographed for many … Continued
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Vangeline is the Artistic Director of the Vangeline Theater, a postmodern Butoh dance company firmly rooted in the tradition ofJapanese B u t while carrying it into the 21st century. She joined the Butoh Ritual Mexicano with Master Diego Pinon in 2002,a n d is assistant Director to Butoh Master Tetsuro Fukuhara for the project TOKYO SPACE DANCE. www.vangeline.com
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Alto Saxophone
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Alto Saxophone
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians, Alto Saxophone
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Flute
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.
Filmed Ko Murobushi’s Quicksilver.
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians Tenor Saxophone
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Piano/ Accordion
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Percussion
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Percussion
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)
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians -Viola
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Guitar
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Guitar
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians, Guitar
New York Sound painting Orchestra Musicians – Flute
Music for cokaseki: Tooboe (Howl) (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005
Photographer for cokaseki: Tooboe (Howl) (U.S. Premiere) @ NYBF 2005