Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya participated in the 2021-2022 MIT Performing Series, exhibiting a performance installation of Correspondences: During the fall 2021 semester, MIT Lecturer Daniel Safer collaborated with LEIMAY to develop a new layer of the work via a constellation of lectures and performances by MIT faculty, students, and groups, culminating in a future large-scale presentation. The residency included a durational multi-channel video installation and models of kinetic sculptures, an evening of screenings of short films from Correspondence’s first phase and a live performance of in-progress choreographic materials related to the company’s LUDUS practice, followed by a conversation with … Continued
Sarah Lawrence College
Ximena Garnica created a Performance Project with Sarah Lawrence College students, based on Becoming-Corpus. Ximena also taught the class Butoh Through LEIMAY Ludus at the undergraduate and graduate levels of the Dance Department in Spring 2024.
Harvard University
Ximena Garnica taught TDM 144BU Playful Bodies: Transforming Materiality through LUDUS & Butoh as a Visiting Lecture in Harvard University’s Theater, Dance & Media department in Spring 2025.
Mamiko Nakatsugawa
In this program, I am hoping to accomplish two things – one is to keep working on my latest work, While is Motion, and other is to create brand new work. What does incubation mean to you? Process that is full of discovery, learning, challenges, playfulness, joy, and connection with myself and the community.