“…Correspondences’ more-than-human choreographies exposes the trans-corporeal exchanges that both structure and biologically alter the performers.” “Correspondences as a case study to argue that if we are to persist through the ‘horrors of the Anthropocence,’ we must not only stay with the trouble, but move through the trouble.” –Angenette Spalink, Performing SLSA: A Roundtable on Performance Studies and the Field’s Dispersions (2024)
Book Chapter: “Gen X Butoh: LEIMAY Ensemble: Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica”
“The work of this artistic duo has been vital to the contemporary development of butoh in New York…They have played a pivotal role as curators and community builders, and now as artists who are forging their own path, inspired by those they have encountered along the way.” “The New York Butoh Festival galvanized a new hub for butoh in the United States…With the 2003 New York Butoh Festival, New York was once again established as a beacon for butoh.” -Tanya Calamoneri, Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies (2024)
Book Chapter: “LEIMAY, CAVE, and the New York Butoh Festival”
“CAVE fluctuates between being our home, our studio, the LEIMAY Ensemble studio, and a space for other artists; the private interweaves with the public, the personal with the social, and sometimes all of those spaces exist simultaneously. For some people, CAVE was a gallery, for others a center of butoh, for others the studio of the LEIMAY Ensemble, and for others an artist’s loft where they slept while staying or living in New York. From the beginning, CAVE has been a vortex defying categories. Live arts such as performance art, dance, experimental sound, and music were intermingled with photography, painting, … Continued
Essay: “In These Pandemic-Times We Remind Ourselves And Others Not To Be Afraid To Dwell
“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)