“The Greek myth of Antigone is rendered in Butoh Dance to illustrate the experience of absence, among families and friends, of los Desaparecidos, the “disappeared ones” of Colombia’s political upheavals.“ -Jonathan Slaff, NewsBlaze (2008) for Antigones
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
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