Ink Boat references Butoh Dance and Tadashi Suzuki Theatre. The music ranges from string quartet to polka to rock to traditional Japanese to industrial noise. Contradiction gives birth to theme. Performances become elaborate or simple as the environment dictates.

Carla Kihlstedt moved to California's Bay Area five years ago from the East Coast after being submerged in the rigorous canon of classical music. She has since explored the range of the violin in many other settings. She has played with Eugene Chadbourne, John Zorn, Earplay, and members of the Rova Saxophone Quartet. In addition to being an active member of the improvised music community, she has collaborated both as composer and/or performer with choreographers Jo Kreiter of Flyaway Productions and Shinichi Koga of Ink Boat. Carla is one of three singers in the Bay Area band Charming Hostess, a founding member of Tin Hat Trio (an accordion-violin-guitar trio who just released their debut album on Capitol's Angel Records) and most recently, a founding member of the band Sleepytime Gorilla Museum.

Nils received his BA in music from UC Berkeley, with an emphasis on 20th century composition, studying with Andrew Imbrie. His primary work has been as a performer/director with the musical-theatrical group Idiot Flesh, which restlessly juggled mediums from puppetry to math lectures to work with Uro Teatr Koku. They toured the US from 1994-1998 and in their SF shows the number of performers often exceeded 30.

He also performs in the group Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, with the musical group Charming Hostess and with Dawn McCarthy as a duo called The Two Dimensions. His quartet was premiered in Stonybrook and he has worked with Berkeley Repertory Theater, John Zorn, and the Underworld Opera.

Dan is a multi-instrumentalist. Most of the instruments he plays were made with his own two hands. He has been a composer and member of Idiot Flesh for 10 years. Currently he works in the groups Sleepytime Gorilla Museum and Charming Hostess. He co-owns Polymorph Recording studio in Oakland where he has engineered recordings for more musicians than you can think of.

Eugenio was born in the South of Brazil and raised in Rio de Janeiro. In Rio he studied Vaganova method ballet with Eugenia Feodorova, modern dance with Ciro Barcellos and Afro-Brazilian and folklore dance with Walter Ribeiro. In 1981 Eugenio co-founded a modern dance group, The Third World Ballet Company, with Ciro Barcellos and in the next three years performed with the company and Eugenia Feodorova.

In 1996 Eugenio graduated with a BA. in Dance from San Francisco State University. Since then he has danced with Berkeley City Ballet, Pearl Ubungen Dancers and Musicians, Onsite Dance Company, Uro Teatr Koku, and Ink Boat.