“CAVE fluctuates between being our home, our studio, the LEIMAY Ensemble studio, and a space for other artists; the private interweaves with the public, the personal with the social, and sometimes all of those spaces exist simultaneously. For some people, CAVE was a gallery, for others a center of butoh, for others the studio of the LEIMAY Ensemble, and for others an artist’s loft where they slept while staying or living in New York. From the beginning, CAVE has been a vortex defying categories. Live arts such as performance art, dance, experimental sound, and music were intermingled with photography, painting, … Continued
Essay: “In These Pandemic-Times We Remind Ourselves And Others Not To Be Afraid To Dwell
“We can not negate the power of our art to procure social change or to serve a cause, or its potential to have a worthy market value; however, our art ought to be embedded in the entanglement and revealed through daily common rituals.” -Ximena Garnica, Dance/NYC (2020)
Review: “Floating Point Waves: Leimay at HERE, NYC”
“Leimay…created an immersive world of captivating videos, simple set pieces that produced bizarre visual effects, and evocative music” “Floating Point Waves worked as an exploration of the intersection of human and electronic images with organic and electronic sounds, and the creativity that can come from inventive interactions with the simplest design elements.” -Amanda Keil, backtrack (2012)
Review: “Choose Your Own Rhythm”
“The most notable exception to the problem of dance divorced from its environment was a kinetic installation by Leimay (a company directed by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya) in the grand Beaux-Arts Court. Four towering, delicate tents of iridescent white string, suspended from the high ceiling, each housed one statuesque, slow-moving dancer in white. A line reached from each performer’s back to the peak of his or her tent, so that any sudden motion — frog-like jumps, abrupt collapsing — caused the structure to pulsate or quake: the body an extension of its habitat, and vice versa.” -Siobhan Burke, The New … Continued