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Review: “The New York Butoh Festival Rides Again”

“It’s very reassuring to see that interesting work is still being done, and that the style is becoming more established in the United States as well.“ -Henry Baumgartner, New York Theater Wire for A Timeless Kaidan

28. Feb

University of California, Riverside

LEIMAY presented Frantic Beauty in Winter 2019 as part of a three-week residency with the UCR Dance Department, leading master classes and transmitting excerpts from Ensemble repertory pieces to UCR dance students. Ximena Garnica was a Visiting Assistant Professor for Fall 2018-Winter 2019.

14. Feb

MIT

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya participated in the 2021-2022 MIT Performing Series, exhibiting a performance installation of Correspondences: During the fall 2021 semester, MIT Lecturer Daniel Safer collaborated with LEIMAY to develop a new layer of the work via a constellation of lectures and performances by MIT faculty, students,...Continued

14. Feb

Sarah Lawrence College

Ximena Garnica created a Performance Project with Sarah Lawrence College students, based on Becoming-Corpus. Ximena also taught the class Butoh Through LEIMAY Ludus at the undergraduate and graduate levels of the Dance Department in Spring 2024.

14. Feb

Harvard University

Ximena Garnica taught TDM 144BU Playful Bodies: Transforming Materiality through LUDUS & Butoh as a Visiting Lecture in Harvard University’s Theater, Dance & Media department in Spring 2025.

14. Feb

Mamiko Nakatsugawa

In this program, I am hoping to accomplish two things – one is to keep working on my latest work, While is Motion, and other is to create brand new work. What does incubation mean to you? Process that is full of discovery, learning, challenges, playfulness, joy, and connection...Continued

13. Feb

Ari LaMora

My work is centered around the many varied layers we encounter in our lives, specifically the layers of gender and societal roles, and where I, as a non-binary gender non-conforming human, fit in. Breaking these layers down to get to the origin, I then use that origin to find...Continued

13. Feb

Niki Farahani

I will be doing a deep dive into a past solo with the hopes of a newer emergence. I will be conducting new research within disciplines in conjunction to movement. Additionally, I will be calling on Annie Heath for assistance, consultation, and collaboration. What does incubation mean to you?...Continued

13. Feb

Cultural Solidarity Fund Blog Test

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6. Feb