“We can not negate the power of our art to procure social change or to serve a cause, or its potential to have a worthy market value; however, our art ought to be embedded in the entanglement and revealed through daily common rituals.” -Ximena Garnica, Dance/NYC (2020)
Review: “Floating Point Waves: Leimay at HERE, NYC”
“Leimay…created an immersive world of captivating videos, simple set pieces that produced bizarre visual effects, and evocative music” “Floating Point Waves worked as an exploration of the intersection of human and electronic images with organic and electronic sounds, and the creativity that can come from inventive interactions with the simplest design elements.” -Amanda Keil, backtrack (2012)
Review: “Choose Your Own Rhythm”
“The most notable exception to the problem of dance divorced from its environment was a kinetic installation by Leimay (a company directed by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya) in the grand Beaux-Arts Court. Four towering, delicate tents of iridescent white string, suspended from the high ceiling, each housed one statuesque, slow-moving dancer in white. A line reached from each performer’s back to the peak of his or her tent, so that any sudden motion — frog-like jumps, abrupt collapsing — caused the structure to pulsate or quake: the body an extension of its habitat, and vice versa.” -Siobhan Burke, The New … Continued
Review: “Alive in Green-Wood Cemetery
“This dance, “Thresholds” by LEIMAY, suggested life and death happening in a continuum. It was respectful, haunting, and beautiful.” -Sarah Larson, The New Yorker (2014)