“The work of this artistic duo has been vital to the contemporary development of butoh in New York…They have played a pivotal role as curators and community builders, and now as artists who are forging their own path, inspired by those they have encountered along the way.” “The New York Butoh Festival galvanized a new hub for butoh in the United States…With the 2003 New York Butoh Festival, New York was once again established as a beacon for butoh.” -Tanya Calamoneri, Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies (2024)
Book Chapter: “LEIMAY, CAVE, and the New York Butoh Festival”
“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)