ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the creation of the New York Butoh Festival and other butoh related educational and presenting programs. It shows that how educational endeavors relate to the collaborative and multidisciplinary artistic practice, intercultural relationship, and situation as immigrants in New York City. The chapter explains why the dissemination of the work of butoh dancers, cautious about the institutionalization of butoh. It also explores what in the works of some butoh dancers relate to the focus with the LEIMAY Ensemble and how frame the practice and develop the aesthetics through the growth of LEIMAY LUDUS. The New York Butoh festival was one of the multiple activities presented and produced by Shige under the umbrella of the live-work space CAVE and the organization LEIMAY. For some people, CAVE was a gallery, for others a center of butoh, for others the studio of the LEIMAY ensemble, and for others an artist's loft where they slept while staying or living in New York.
