Piercing butoh: weekly class-workshop starts this week, LEIMAY performance next week and Welcome! Dear Friends, We still have spaces open for the weekly training at CAVE. Each session will culminate in public performances at CAVE. The dead line to register for the full semester (Feb-May) has been extended for few days more. So this is your last chance to decided! February 9, 2011. We kept this training really really affordable specially for those who want to dive into both sessions. We like to welcome CAVE's new studio-share residents: Amity Perry and Jen Kosky, scroll down to see their photo and some information about them. Please save the days (February 17 - 20) and get your tickets! LEIMAY will present 20 minutes from BECOMING (this is the new work we presented in Colombia back in November) We are now looking for a New York presenter! These excerpts will be presented in Dance New Amsterdam during four days iin a share bill with choreographers: Jennifer Nuget and Adrienne Westwood. Thanks to all you guys who joined CAVEnexus after our last invite! We had great responses and we hope you keep the network alive by using it and spreading the word. If you are not in yet... what are you waiting for? the more we are the more resources we can share. As the second month of the year enters the Butoh-Kan programming is getting a bit more clear... We promise you to have set days and all teachers confirmed by the end of this month. We will have three or four super great teachers, you'll be so happy with the line up. Intros and intensives and a workshop performance opportunity! However we need your opinion. Here is a link for a very short survey (one question) asking about schedule preferences. Please help us to make quick decisions by answer this survey. Please start making plans dates now look like: June 2-16 (first guest teacher), September 8-22 (second guest teacher) and September 29-October 13 (third guest teacher) November (four guest teacher). Welcome to our new studio residents! Jen Kosky is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance artist. Her work is largely inspired by theenergetics of nature, urbanity and the body and is often portrayed with a fiery feminine point of view. Her movement style draws from release technique, improvisation and African dance forms. Jen has had the pleasure of dancing for numerous talented choreographers including Ellis Wood,Martha Williams, Dorian Nuskind-Oder, Jody Oberfelder, Stephanie Sleeper and Shalewa Mackall. Jen's choreography has been presented at various venues including ABC NoRio, the Hatch, the Chelsea Art Museum, Galapagos Art Space, Studio AIR, New York City Theater and Media, The Schermerhorn Theater and BAX. Jen has been honored to be a guest artist at the Gershwin Hotel for two years where she has been sponsored to create two full evening length works. As a recent graduate of the Swedish Institute, Jen is also a massage therapist and energybased body worker. Jen approaches the healing body arts in a creative way that is custom designed to accommodate the uniqueness of each individual client. This work is healing for clients and also serves to continually deepen Jen's understanding of the physical, energetic and emotional body, thereby presenting her with and endless source of creative inspiration. Amiti Perry is a native Texan, received her BA in Dance from the University of North Texas and MFA in Choreography from The Ohio State University. She is founder and director of æmp:dance/amiti perry + company, which has been presented at Bridge for Dance Uptown Performance Series, DUMBO Dance Festival, COOL-NYC and multiple 60x60 Dance events. The company was commissioned for new work that premiered at the Women in Motion’s Estrogenius Festival (October 2010). Currently they are creating work for a premiere at Greenspace (June 2011) and for a company season event in Fall 2011. Beyond æmp: dance, Amiti has produced, choreographed and performed original works consistently since 1998; cofounded DIPdance with collaborator Coco Loupe in 2001; presented and performed works in New York, Texas, Louisiana and Ohio; performed as a guest artist with Rachel Lampert and Dancers (Ithaca, NY, 1999); and performed, taught, assisted and designed, nationally and internationally, with Skip Costa/COREmovement Project-NYC (1999-2003). At OSU, she performes works by Bebe Miller, Blake Beckham, Michael Estanich and more. Since 2006, Amiti has also performed with ellen stokes shadle/DANCEWORKS and seen performance. PIERCING BUTOH: Not your regular butoh workshop or training class! Parallel to the Butoh-Kan Training residency, CAVE has developed a new series of ongoing body training and composition classes culminating in public performances at CAVE. During the months of February, March, April and May, every Sunday and Monday  weekly classes will be lead by Daiji Meguro (from Ko Murobushi’s  Ko & Edge butoh company) and  Ximena Garnica (LEIMAY). These two artists have developed their own techniques and philosophy in regards to the body in performance.  This program is developed with the local community in mind and for those who wish to delve into both physical training and performance practice. Registration dead line for full sections: February 9, 2011. Read more by visiting: <http://www.cavearts.org/?p=136> ****BUTOK KAN SCHEDULE SURVEY HERE!**** OBject.obJECT│ February 17-20 Performance Times: Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00pm, Sunday at 3:00pm Dance New Amsterdam (DNA) 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) New York, NY | 212.625.8369 For tickets CLICK HERE Excerpts from Becoming Concept and Design by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya Choreographed by Ximena Garnica & the dancers Performed by Masanori Asahara, Ximena Garnica, Miyu Leilani, Denisa Musilova Music Composed and Performed Live by Roland Toledo, additional songs by Laddio Bolocko Live Video by Shige Moriya Becoming synthesizes dance, live manipulated video and original live music, meditating on the continuous cycles of life and death and on the modern human search for identity and the struggle to become someone. Becoming was developed at The Yard, a colony for performing artists, as part of the Bessie Schönberg Choreographers’ Residency. Produce by CAVE, a space for the development of contemporary art and performance. OBject.obJECT Initiated in 2006, OBject.obJECT is one of DNA’s most interdisciplinary programs. It focuses on female choreographers and their collaborators, creating projects that blend dance, music, theater and new media in a shared performance setting. Join! It is free! It is for you! Why to join... Well... You can meet local and international artists from different disciplines, not just dancers, not just musicians, not just painters, not just designers... CAVEnexus is open to all artists working in the contemporary visual and performing arts. You can offer services, sell your art related goods, promote your next gig or find one; show your photos and videos inside a specialized community. You might start a conversation, share your resources... Anything we haven't mentioned but you think can happen within this online community go ahead and make it happen. To start please visit: <http://nexus.cavearts.org/> You are receiving this email because you are in CAVE mailing list. You can always if you wish to stop getting emails from CAVE! Just look for the orange link below this message. CAVE 58 Grand Street Brooklyn, New York 11211 CAVE is now one of the longest running experimental arts spaces in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. An interdisciplinary and international workplace for emerging and established artists. CAVE endeavors to establish an environment that attracts, provokes, and supports exchange, generative confrontation, and collaboration among artists and audiences from diverse cultures and artistic backgrounds. CAVE provides an explorative arena and support system to sustain the artistic work of its resident and community artists by: hosting studio workspace, affordable loddings, educational programs, performance and exhibition opportunities; assisting the realization of projects and artistic productions that support risk-taking in the visual, media, performing and interdisciplinary arts. CAVE is the home of LEIMAY projects by artists Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica. © 2011 CAVE All rights reserved.