Urban Research Theater Grand Opening
549 West 52nd Street, Third Floor

LEIMAY: Ximena Garnica | Shige Moriya
with Denisa Musilova, Masa Asahara, Miyu Leilani

LEIMAY is an interdisciplinary project and laboratory of contemporary performance and installation art. LEIMAY is the parapluie for Shige Moriya art works, Ximena Garnica art works and the collaboration work between these two artists. Works range from art installations, to dance-theater pieces, inter-media collaborations, improvisational studies and training projects. LEIMAY is a made-up word based on a Japanese term meaning the moment of change (as in the moment between darkness and the light at dawn; also the time of change between eras. Their permanent studio is located inside the experimental and contemporary art space known as CAVE. www.leimay.org / www.cavearts.org

Performance:
BECOMING
Excerpts of a LEIMAY work in progress.
Concept and Design: Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
Choreography: Ximena Garnica
Live Video: Shige Moriya
Music: Laddio Bolocko & Roland Toledo
Dancers: Denisa Musilova, Masa Asahara, Miyu Leilani

“I am he, the nameless one, who does not know himself and whose name is concealed even from himself. I have not name, since I have not yet existed, but have only just become… I, who I am, am not it. But I, who will be I before me and after me, am it.”