An afternoon of performance featuring works by  LEIMAY Incubator Program alumni and community members — a group of local and international artists working within movement-based practices.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 30th

Emilija Berga – Revisit
~breathing memory imagining diaphragm expanding~

Taking a specific visual image created during a movement improvisation session, this piece explores how our bodies archive memory and connection, and how the recreation of a sensation changes throughout time. This piece prioritises feeling over thinking, momentarily decisions instead of a formed structure, process over a set result.

 

Shira Kagan-Shafman – Tethered
~An exploration of anchorage and entanglement.~

Tethered is a project woven together through a shared process of investigation into contingent sonic and gestural vulnerabilities. This work is an accumulation of creative threads, which we are increasingly finding ourselves tethered to as we conceptualize further possibilities for this vibrant salvaging of materials.

 

Sylvain Souklaye – A tipping point
~Embodied voices resist digital silence~

Voice, noise, and bodily manifesto examining private interiority versus public self. Explores economic and political conditions shaping self-determination and collective behavior. Questions our relationship to nature amid peak functionality, asserting shared linguistic moments against visual culture’s marginalization of words.

 

SUNDAY, AUGUST 31th 

Mehrnam Rastegari & Julia Kolakova – Persian music and dance
~A perform of two original tunes composed by Mehrnam, on the Kamancheh with Julia joining on dance~

The performance shows the combination of dance and music. Persian culture is an ancient tradition and since ancient times music and dance were tied together, now we as NYC artists living in a modern era, crafting old arts are trying to bring those traditions to another dimension of living.

 

Synead Cidney Nichols – There Is Something In Her Blood
~An abstract improvisational movement piece~

“There Is Something In Her Blood” is an abstract improvisational movement piece on liberation and the human’s relentless journey in search of it. We are often told how we must be in liberation and what it is supposed to be whether it’s a baby, a husband, a big house, a nice car, marriage, and more. TISIHB asks us to relinquish what we know and consider liberation to look like and open up to what liberation feels like.

 

Kanami Kusajima – Wind
~A work that explores the flow of human energy and the unstoppable passage of time—like wind circling the globe.~

“Wind” explores the flow of human energy and the unstoppable passage of time—like wind circling the globe. In modern society, constant and significant changes often force us to make decisions without enough time to contemplate. In a world spinning faster each day, how do we deal with it? Adopt it, let go with it, move with it, or resist it? With this dance piece, Kusajima hopes to unite people—even if they’re making different decisions in life—by offering a moment of contemplation for the past and future of humanity, and how we move within the ever-shifting winds of change.

 

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