The 3rd CAVE New York Butoh Festival

2007/7

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The CAVE New York Butoh Festival is a program of CAVE Organization which celebrates the origins and international evolution of butoh in a biennial festival of performances, workshops, films, lectures and related events.

Our third biennial New York Butoh Festival, which ended two months ago, was a great success for all involved: for the artists, for the audiences, for us as presenters, for the corporations and foundations that sponsored it, for the many venues we partnered with and for all the people who attended it. We want to personally and sincerely thank all of you for your support. Butoh is a challenging and complex art form; we thank you for joining us and supporting art that challenges, provokes and inspires people to think about dance and the world in new ways.
 
This year’s New York Butoh Festival was longer, much larger in scope and more ambitious than our first and second festivals in 2003 and 2005:
* We presented the work of over 60 emerging and established artists from all over the world: from Japan, Germany, France, Colombia, San Francisco, Mexico and New York.
* The festival hosted six U.S. Premieres, and five World Premieres
* There were events at eight different venues: Anthology Film Archives, CAVE, Japan Society, Martin E. Segal Theatre Center/CUNY Graduate Center, Theater for the New City, Noguchi Museum and Fordham University, .
* 224 students attended the ten Intensive Workshops and Master Classes at Fordham University, Movement Research, and Dance Theatre Workshop.
* Over 2,400 people attended the twenty different and diverse festival shows at CAVE, Japan Society, Noguchi Museum, and Theater for the New City
* We added two new successful elements to our programming – an expanded lecture series which included Artist Talks by world renowned masters Yoshito Ohno, Ko Murobushi and Akira Kasai; and a partnership with the Noguchi Museum to curate festival artists for their Second Sunday series and Art for Families programming.

Almost every festival event was sold-out and full. The nine Intensive Workshops and Master Classes were all completely full with participants and an impressive waiting list. Cave’s curated program at the Japan Society was filled over capacity (262 seats) with many people left standing at the back to view the programming.
As the audience numbers prove, it was an enormously successful festival. 

THANK YOU!

YOUR PARTICIPATION AND SUPPORT HAVE MADE THE NEW YORK BUTOH FESTIVAL AN SPECIAL AND POWERFULL CELEBRATION. 

 

Acess to our 2007 festival website: http://nybf.caveartspace.org/