A Meal
2024 Premiere
Ximena Garnica + Shige Moriya & LEIMAY Ensemble
A multi-sensorial live performance: part-ritual, part-celebration, part-installation, and part-dinner by critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Commissioned by HERE and co-produced with LEIMAY, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with.
This two and a half hour immersive experience takes you through a series of vignettes across HERE’s building, where you’ll partake in the act of eating together, witness performances by mythological creatures, and encounter offering songs and evocative sound/video movement installations. The layered work features handmade organic tableware, crafted artifacts, and evocative images and dances, all resonating with our post-industrial relationship with food and the Japanese and Colombian roots of the co-creators.
For A Meal, Ximena and Shige bring together new and long-time collaborators to their LEIMAY Ensemble, alongside guest performers, composers, and vocalists.
Documentation
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UDiznTOrGl08YGO_ExZQfBeQNXN1aNuB/view?usp=sharing
Object Identifier
AMP.XSW.2018.1000.93.6ID number
2018.1000.93.6Year Created
2024Language
EnglishSeries
A MealCurated Filters
- Dance/Theater/Opera
- Installation Performance
- Wearable Sculpture/Usable Art
- Kinetic Sculpture
- Multidisciplinary/Interdisciplinary
- Bodies
- Light
- Natural Elements
Space / Location
- Theater
Premiere Venue
HERE Arts Center2024/09/11-2024/09/29
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013-1548
CONCEPT, DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY
Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
SCENIC, LIGHTING & MENU DESIGN
Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya
LIVE PERFORMANCE
The LEIMAY Ensemble and Guests:
Masanori Asahara; Krystel Copper; Maitlin Jordan; Akane Little; Derek DiMartini; Mar Galeano; Peggy Gould; David Guzman; Synead Cidney Nichols; Denisa Musilova; Carolina Oliveros; Polina Porras
VIDEO PERFORMERS
Masanori Asahara, Krystel Copper, Ximena Garnica, Andrea Jones, Cora Laszlo, Michael Mangieri, Shige Moriya, Aono Oyanagi, Brandon Perdomo, Irena Romendik
LEAD COMPOSER, SOUND DESIGNER
Drew Sensue-Weinstein
ASSOCIATE COMPOSERS
Thea Little & Jeremy D. Slater
VOCAL COMPOSITION
Synead Cidney Nichols & Carolina Oliveros
SOUND ASSISTANT
Luisa Pinzon
ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER & MASTER ELECTRICIAN
Juan Merchan
VIDEO EDITORS
Ximena Garnica, Shige Moriya & Catalina Santamaria
VIDEO HEAD & SYSTEMS ENGINEER
Glenn Potter-Takata
MULTIMEDIA SPECIALIST
Benja Thompson
COSTUME DESIGN
Ximena Garnica, Dayeon Jeong & Irena Romendik
WEARABLE SCULPTURES & CERAMICS
Ximena Garnica
CERAMICS FABRICATION ASSISTANCE
A.V., Masanori Asahara, Xi Nan, Izya Baird-Appleton
COSTUMES FABRICATION
Dayeon Jeong, Irena Romendik
WEARABLES FABRICATION
Ximena Garnica, Camila Barra, Izya Baird-Appleton, Ximena Garnica, Polina Porras, Etu (the cat) & the Ensemble
FURNITURE & ARTIFACTS FABRICATION
Iida Ryuichi
VENDORS PORTRAITS
Armando and Sandy
Walid
Luz Maria Ramos
Eduardo
Mohamed
Md-Abdullhaque
Ahmed Mostaque
VENDORS PHOTOGRAPHS
Brandon Perdomo
KITCHEN MASTER
Andrés Tangarife
KITCHEN ASSISTANT
Iida Ryuichiro
MAKE-UP
Mar Galeano, Ximena Garnica & the Ensemble
VIDEO PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE
Masa Asahara , Krystel Copper & Irena Romendik
Photos by Maria Baranova and Pasha Antonov
Video by Moti Margolin
Presented by LEIMAY and HERE
A Meal is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Community Trust’s, by public funds from New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs In Partnership with the City Council.
LEIMAY’ operations, works and programs are funded in part by Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Andrew Mellon Foundation, A.R.T./New York’s NYC Small Theatres Fund made possible with support from the Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore, and NY Community Trust Mosaic Network and many generous contributions from individual donors.
A Meal is made possible by New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and The New York Community Trust; and many generous contributions from individual donors.
A MEAL is a National Performance Network (NPN) Creation & Development Fund Project co-commissioned by Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art LTD, 7 Stages, and NPN. For more information www.npnweb.org.
HERE TEAM
PRODUCER
Kristin Marting
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Daniel Morrow
RIGGER
Ben Elling
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
Berit Johnson
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGERS
Max Mooney & Kristina Gramlich-Casta
OUR PARTNER LEIMAY TEAM
ARTISTIC AND GENERAL CO-DIRECTORS
Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
OPERATIONS & PROGRAMS MANAGER
Alejandra Arenas
PRODUCTION & SPACE KEEPER
Masanori Asahara
MARKETING & OUTREACH ASSOCIATE
Sergio Santana
FINANCE ASSOCIATE
Mario Santana
STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT & LEAD CONSULTANT
Megan Kendzior
DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATE
Wei-ming Liu Egelman & Denisa Musilova
OPERATIONS ASSISTANT
LA
GROUNDSKEEPER
Adam Zarkowski
