Bora Yoon
Vangeline
Irem’s life as a dancer started in Istanbul, at the Theater Research Lab with Mustafa Kaplan. Being deeply moved by a Butoh performance she saw in Istanbul, she went on to complete a Master’s thesis on Butoh and post war politics in Japan at the Anthropology Department of UMass, Amherst. She has studied Butoh with Min Tanaka, Akira Kasai, and Ko Murobushi, Body Mind Centering with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen and Modern Dance at the Cunningham School for Dance. She has danced with Ko Murobushi, Takuya Muramatsu, Mari Osanai and Leimay. She has shown work in various venues in Istanbul and New York including Movement Research at Judson Church, Dixon Place, NY Butoh Festival, the CAVE, Construction Company, Cunningham Studio and CATI Dance Studio. http://www.iremcalikusu.com/
Ye Taik
Ye Taik is a brooklyn-based performing artist who was born in Rangoon , Burma.Since his move to New York as an independent artist ,he began his avant-garde Butoh dance training under the direction of Vangeline , Ko Murobushi and Degio Pinon.He loves to collaboration with others.
Nino Trentinella
Nino Trentinella was born in 1979 in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia and now lives and works in USA.Nino earned her Bachelor of Art degree in Animation and Photography in 2001; and her Master of Fine Art in Imaging and Digital Arts (Film & Photography emphasis) from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2005. Some of the awards Nino received include: Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Recognition Award (2008), Carver Foundation Grant (2008), GSA Research Grant (2002-2005), Soho Photo Gallery’s National Competition Winner Award (2001, 2002), Jeanie Druck Riebling Memorial Scholarship, (1998), Victoria & Albert Museum and Baltimore Museum of Art: “A Grand Design” Competition Grand Prize (1998).Nino’s artwork is based on narrative storytelling and personal narratives. Her work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan.
Melissa Lohman
Melissa Lohman is a dancer/performer based in N.Y.C.Butoh in various forms,is at the core of her training. She is currently focusing on her solo work,and collaborating with jazz and avant-guarde musicians.Most recently,she danced at Douglass Street Music Collective with renowned jazz musicians Rob Garcia (drums) and Michel Gentile (flute).Melissa is also in ongoing collaboration with Butoh master Katsura Kan.
Aung Way
date of birth – July 23 , 1954
place of birth – Burma (Myanmar)
1982 – became poet
1976-78, 1988, 1989-91 – three times in prison
2007 – left for Thailand
2008 – arrived in America