“Ximena’s Summer intensive in SOAK 2018 gave us the space to explore our physical limitations and the capacity of our imagination in relation to our bodies. Although I only attended for one day, it gave me the permission to soften back into my own practice and move again.” – Jose Rivera Jr., LEIMAY LUDUS Summer Intensive Participant, 2018
Testimonial – Abbey Klotz
“I enjoyed my experience, even though it’s really physically difficult work (at times)! It challenges me on so many levels and that’s why I come, but it’s also really fun to be there with the LEIMAY company. I learn a lot from all of you. I especially enjoyed the development of the string –from an actual string to an imaginary string. Perhaps that string took new forms in the subsequent days. I think I learned things from excercises that I can build on in my own way and capacity.” – Abbey Klotz, LEIMAY LUDUS Summer Intensive Participant, 2018
Testimonial – Nurya Chana
“As a dancer and performer, I crave meaningful, critical, and rigorous work on embodied movement. Ximena constructs workshops that attend down to the subtle crevasses of presence, giving personal feedback and challenging lessons until the body finds itself changed in an extending space of shimmering, activated air.” – Nurya Chana, LEIMAY LUDUS Summer Intensive Participant, 2018
Testimonial – Becca Loevy
“LEIMAY artistic director Ximena said the first class I took from her that each class would be like looking at one section of an elephant, and only after a number of classes could the whole picture begin to unfold. With that in mind, each class I’ve taken at LEIMAY has a similar quality, yet shifts vastly from large to small, slow to fast, together, apart, and many different forms of rigorous. Butoh has become not simply a slow meditation, but also a vibrant, pulsing beast that falls in and out of sleep while being ever aware. Each class is a … Continued