Wind
Kanami Kusajima
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2025: OUTSIGHT
~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.
Documentation
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:
Shira Kagan-Shafman – Tethered
Emilija Berga – Revisit
Sylvain Souklaye – A Tipping Point
Sunday August 31st:
Kanami Kusajima – Wind
Synead Cidney Nichols – There Is Something In Her Blood
Mehrnam Rastegari & Julia Kolakova – Persian music and dance
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2025.7000.4Year Created
2025Date Recorded
20250831Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community GardenAugust 30-31, 2025
174 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, NY
Kanami Kusajima is a dancer, performing artist, and choreographer born and raised in Japan. She has performed in dance works by various choreographers, including Francesca Harper, Yoshiko Chuma and Ana Maria Lucaciu. She is also known as “Let Hair Down,” a street performer in Washington Square Park who combines live painting and improvisational dance.
Photos by Benja Thompson
OUTSIGHT is a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art, experimental music, and butoh. Most OUTSIGHT artists have been part of the LEIMAY Incubator Program which provides them with process-focused resources. The performances are set within one of NYRP’s community gardens.
OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
This year, one OUTSIGHT artist is proudly sponsored by Studio Birdhaus. Since 2012, Studio Birdhaus has served as a platform for sharing embodied practice through storytelling and performance & visual arts.
