“Irem Calikusu and Denisa Musilova offered the most captivating performances. In Calikusu’s Texture II, a block of ice hangs in the dark and drips over her naked bent body. She jolts intermittently, as if involuntarily, and slowly, brokenly unfurls. She’s like an insect trapped in a glacier.”

– Erika Eichelberger,”CAVE New York Butoh Festival – The Butoh-Kan Phase October 23-November 25, 2009″, The Brooklyn Rail, 2009