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.
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 with myself and the community.
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 different pathways that are separate from the “norm.” Incubation to me is the period between exposure (to an idea) and the result from that exposure (creating, working, processing, thinking).
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? Presently, incubation means entering into an environment in which the conditions are geared towards my fundamental and intellectual development. Through certain fixed conditions, I believe avenues of experimental play and learning can appear more readily. It feels like sustained support with non linear possibilities.