“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
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.
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, and groups, culminating in a future large-scale presentation. The residency included a durational multi-channel video installation and models of kinetic sculptures, an evening of screenings of short films from Correspondence’s first phase and a live performance of in-progress choreographic materials related to the company’s LUDUS practice, followed by a conversation with … Continued
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.