Revisit
Emilija Berga
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2025: OUTSIGHT
~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 prioritizes feeling over thinking, momentarily decisions instead of a formed structure, process over a set result.
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.2025.7000.2Year Created
2025Date Recorded
20250830Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community GardenAugust 30-31, 2025
174 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, NY
Emilija Berga is an artist from Latvia. She received her bachelor’s degree in contemporary dance choreography in Latvian Academy of Culture, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer in Latvia and abroad. Currently she is studying an MFA in Parsons School of Design, expanding her practice in interdisciplinary work, and translating embodied states in other mediums.
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.
