Sophia Treanor
Sophia Treanor is a Brooklyn based performance artist, actor, dancer, and director. Sophia studied acting at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and when introduced to movement training was immediately shocked by the enormous expressive potential of the body.This began a more spiritual relationship to dance and music, and led her to study meditation, improvisation, and the Six Viewpoints with Mary Overlie. Sophia has been investigating presence (((now))) with collaborator Sebastiani Romagnolo and musician Adam Gundersheimer for the last two years, and the performance possibilities between poetry and movement with poet Rachel Broderick. Snow flakes, sand dunes, and turbulent vortices … Continued
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
Drew is a multidisciplinary theatre and sound artist, serving as one of three composers for A MEAL. His work often involves the integration of electroacoustic sound with music and live performance to create a heightened sensory experience for audiences. Drew co-created and directed SYNTHESIS, performed as part of LEIMAY’S SOAK 2017; he also produced LEIMAY’s FRANTIC BEAUTY (BAM) and KALAVINKA, LEIMAY’s gala event honoring Meredith Monk. As a designer and composer, Drew’s work has been experienced in New York at HERE, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, and Abrons Arts Center and in DC at Anacostia Arts Center (DC), … Continued
Ximena Garnica
Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery. “Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions. She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira … Continued