Piercing butoh, Call for Art work to benefit natural disaster victims,  Invite to Epona's Labyrinth Dear Friends, Seems like spring is finally here! We hope all your activities and life are going well. Sorry we have not send CAVE newsletter since February! Now we are also sending LEIMAY newsletter and it get's confusing! As you all know March 11, was a had day for our friends and families in Japan. Our close friends and relatives are safe. But the devastation is shocking. We at CAVE plan a fund-raising event for the end of April. Please check the open call at the end of this e-mail. We can tell you that The Piercing Butoh classes have been running successfully from February this year and they will end in May; please keep spreading the word about it (all details are below). LEIMAY has been really active with Shige, Ximena and their collaborators: Roland Toledo, Jeremy Slater, Denisa Musilova, Masanori Asahara and Miyu Leilani. The February started with four days of performances in share night at Dance New Amsterdam, finally LEIMAY could show in NY a glimpse of their new piece Becoming. Then in March the full ensemble traveled to Pittsburgh to premiere Becoming. They had a great performance in front of a full house of 250 people at the Carnegie Mellon University. Back in NY LEIMAY had the chance to present an excerpt of Floating Point waves work in progress at the BAX curated artists series in front of a very curious and receptive audience. Now, Shige and Ximena have been busy with their participation in the South Wing Theater Company new play premiering tonight at HERE! (all details and discount information below) A poking reminder: CAVEnexus! Do you know you can find and cultivate a community of artists interested in contemporary experimental visual art and performance right in your computer. Post jobs, housing, work-studio calls, promote your event. Start a conversation, a group, an album, free and open to all: <http://nexus.cavearts.org/> And what's going on with the Butoh-Kan workshops? ... All information coming up next week! Love and solidarity to Japan and all victims of natural disasters Dear friends, thanks for your responses so far. We still sending out this message and will get back to you by the end of the month with a more precise plan. Now there are so many great fundraisers going on for Japan and we are very happy. We want to make this a fundraiser not just for Japan but for victims of natural disasters in general. We still have an open call for donations of art work, video work or of any goods that you think might be appropriate for a raffle / auction. We would like to organize an event at CAVE to benefit victims of natural disasters in Japan, Haiti, Bolivia, Chile... We hope to direct the proceeds Doctor Without Borders. If you have any ideas, if you would like to volunteer for this event and or donate any goods please drop us a line. Earthquake Tsunami Victims - R.I.P Piercing Butoh Not your regular butoh workshop or training classes! 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 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. Read more by visiting: <http://www.cavearts.org/?p=136> And save the dates September-October-November: guest butoh masters at CAVE included: Hisako Horikawa, Akira Kasai, Yukio Waguri and more to be confirmed! Details will be posted mid April in our web-site. (Ximena, Shige and The South Wing-Nibroll) Ximena has been invited to play a small roll as an actress and Shige has been invited as set designer for The South Wing's production titled Epona’s Labyrinth. The piece will premiere next month and below are the details. An ambulance appears in the middle of the night, carting off a woman who claims she is healthy. Her husband sets off on a surreal odyssey through a vast hospital. Epona’s Labyrinth follows his descent into a Kafkaesque network of constant surveillance, sexual deviance, addictions and delusion. The South Wing teams up with Japanese multimedia collective, Nibroll to mount this erotic, original play. A nightmarish vision of modern medicine and life unravels through stark, neo-expressionist staging and striking video design. Created by The South Wing in collaboration with Nibroll art collective Written by Ivana Catanese & Kameron Steele Directed by Kameron Steele Choreography: Mikuni Yanaihara Writing Collaboration: The South Wing andMaria Godoy Lights: Ayumu “Poe” Saegusa Costumes: Mitsushi Yanaihara Video: Keisuke Takahashi Sets: Shige Moriya Sound & Original Music: SKANK Stage Manager: Catherine Coffey Performers: Gillian Chadsey, Davina Cohen*,Gabel Eiben, Ximena Garnica, Nathan Guisinger, Sophia Remolde, Andrew Shulman*, Benjamin Stuber, Kate Villanova for tickets and more details For $15 dollar tickets use code CAST15 at <https://admin.ovationtix.com/trs/pr/810645/prm/CAST15> You are receiving this email because you are in CAVE mailing list. You can always if you wish to stop getting emails from CAVE! 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. © 2010 CAVE All rights reserved.