LEIMAY "Untitled" presented by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
The LAB Gallery
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In this performance installation by LEIMAY, led by the duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. this piece explores the modern search for personal identity, juxtaposed with society ideals, pseudo realities and multiple perceptions of existence. The artists will expose the human body in a state of highly physical action together with multilayer projections.
LEIMAY is individual and collaborative work between Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, lying at the intersection of dance, performance, and installation art. LEIMAY is currently in residency at HERE Arts Center. Their work has been developed in residencies at the Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, the New Hazlett Theater, the National Museum of Dance, and Hanoi Contemporary Arts Center. They have received fellowships and grants support from the Ford Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Urban Artist Initiative (UAI/NYC), The Asian American Arts Alliance, and the Japan Foundation. Their work has been recognized with the Armani Design Award of the Watermill Center for Shige Moriya and the Bessie Schonberg Individual Choreographers Residency Award of the Yard and the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship for young hispanic directors in New York for Ximena Garnica. LEIMAY is a project of the experimental and contemporary art and performance space known as CAVE.
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from October 05, 2012 to October 26, 2012