Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based contemporary dance artist exploring performance as an interdimensional portal into the personal and collective unconscious. They began their dance training as a competition dancer in Starkville, MS, and continued on to study contemporary dance under Alysia Ramos at Oberlin College. During their time freelancing in Brooklyn, they have performed with artists including Kinesis Project, Hivewild, Boy Friday│Evik Abbott-Main, Hard/Femme Dances, God Complex x Aeon Andreas, and more. They are a featured performer in music videos for Tom Petty (dir. Adria Petty) and Bridget Kearney (Lake Street Dive). This is their second year in the LEIMAY … Continued
Peggy Gould
NYC-based dancer, choreographer, collaborator, movement educator and writer. BFA & MFA Degrees in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts; teacher of Alexander Technique certified by Aileen Crow; Dance Faculty at Sarah Lawrence College (1999-present); Assistant to renowned functional anatomist and dance educator Irene Dowd; has worked with artists including Sondra Loring, Patricia Hoffbauer, Tiffany Osedra Miller, Cathy Weis, Sara Rudner, Joyce S. Lim, Bryan Fox, and created eleven original interdisciplinary works (1996-2018); Fulbright Specialist in Dance/U.S. Studies (2019) in Cuenca, Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador; Leimay guest artist (2023-present).
Yusuke Mori
Yusuke Mori was born in Kagawa Prefecture in 1982, and moved to Tokyo in 2001, where he majored in Performance in Broadcasting at the Tokyo Announce Performing Arts College. Upon graduating, he joined the butoh group KAIZA, led by Hideyuki Okaniwa. Currently, he is a member of Theatre Company shelf, and has performed in numerous productions by the experimental theater company Banyu Inryoku, led by J.A. Seazer. Major stage productions, written by Shuji Terayama, include: Lemmings (2017), Shintokumaru (Poinson Boy, 2017), Inugami (The Dog God, 2016), Nuhi-Kun (Directions to Servants, 2015), Jashumon (Hersey, 2013), and The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu … Continued
Hirosako Horiwaka
For two decades Hisako contributed to the developement of the Body Weather Laboratory. A kinesthetic and movement research initiated by dancer.farmer Min Tanaka. This comprehensive movement training offers open and incisive investigations to challage physical limits and scale, evoke sense memory and rigorously re-examine the body as a dynamic, transformative enviorment.