Kenta Nagai is a fretless guitar player and composer based in New York City. His technique extends and enhances the expressive range of guitar. From 1999 until 2002 he was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city.
Born in New York City in 1971. He grew up in Boston and attended the New England Conservatory extension division where he began studying music theory at age 11. His first serious piece, composed as a sophomore in high school, was accepted into Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop. As a senior in high school he received First Prize in the Harvard Musical Association’s achievement awards.
After high school Mr. Celimli continued his studies at Brandeis University where he studied with Eric Chasalow and Allen Anderson. The Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis) performed his String Quartet and he was awarded the Reiner Prize for best undergraduate composition two years in a row. Mr. Celimli went on for a Master’s degree in composition in England at the University of Sussex where he studied with Michael Finnissy and was awarded the Stockhausen Prize.
In 1995, on his return from abroad, Mr. Celimli began to participate in new music festivals. Celimli’s scores were presented at the May in Miami and June in Buffalo festivals and at the Music Breaks Free festival back in England. In 1996 Mr. Celimli moved to New York City and began working with modern dance and avant-garde theater companies. Since 1996 Mr. Celimli’s music has been heard throughout the US and Europe in conjunction with numerous dance and theater projects.
Mr. Celimli has worked with many New York City based choreographers including Doug Elkins, Se疣 Curran, Ben Munisteri, Murray Spalding, Tanya Kane-Parry and Jeanette Stoner. Evren Celimli has composed music and designed sound for over 25 dance and theater productions over the past 12 years. He has also composed music for commercials and produced recordings for several independent record labels.
Set design for LAYER ZERO
Born in 22. 7. 1968 in Eisenstadt, 1995 Go to New York, 2001 Go to Berlin, 1991-1995 Study at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, 2000-2001 Studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York
Born in Osaka in 1973. MA of Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Artist Statement ; The main theme of her work is “scenery” but she does not mean drawing the real scenery. Instead, she tries to re-establish time and space within a given scenery in a most defined way. By looking at her drawing, one will be able to experience the emotion that the drawing projects. Also, she uses many materials for her works and this is because she applies specific material for specific work. She is one of the most hopeful young artists in Japan.
Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and dancer living in New York. She has presented solo and collaborative installations and performances in Seattle, Miami, and New York, including Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center and Jack the Pelican Presents (New York,) the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as The Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle). She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2003 and performs with PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment.) In her work she questions the boundaries that have traditionally divided artistic disciplines, taking on multiple roles by using her own body as subject, object, and medium. For many years she worked as an artists’ model. These experiences informed her current work, in which she mediates the space between the world inside an artwork and the one in our bodies.
Born in Shikoku Island in Japan, 1981, Hiromi started drawing and painting when she was 4. The subject of Hiromi’s paintings is always an imaginary girl with a textile-like pattern on her face. However, the main subject matter is the extreme emotion hidden behind the face.
Nao Sakamoto, studied film theory at the Collage of Staten Island of CU.N.Y and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC. He was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. ”My sound works create space, sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as lanquage”. ———- I studied film theory at the CUNY College of Staten Island and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, in New York. I was the chief sound organizer at the KOAP Gallery, New York in 1995. Since 1996, I have collaborated with many visual artists and sound performers at CAVE Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY), the Knitting Factory (New York), and in galleries throughout New York, Japan and Europe. My sound works create a sense of space consciousness, which sparks a kinesthetic response in the listener. The sound composition I created for Cenesthesia is structurally based on architectural thought. And yet the sound still affects the listener as though it were language.
Brief self comment: I studied film theory at the College of Staten Island of C.U.N.Y. and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC NY. I was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. From 1996 to present, I have collaborated with many visual artists and sound performers at THE CAVE (Brooklyn NY), the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn NY), the Knitting Factory (NYC NY) ,and galleries in NYC ,Japan & Europe. My sound works create space , sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as language.
Naoki Iwakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Growing up, he became interested the New York art world after reading about it in magazines. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, where he also taught briefly as an assistant professor of Graphic Design.
At the age of 24 he moved to New York City, where he began showing art at OK Harris and Noho Gallery in Manhattan. In 1996, he co-founded the CAVE, an experimental art space that fostered an eclectic group of musicians, artists, and performers. At the CAVE, he further developed his interest in live performance painting as well as the artistic use of fire, a practice that would later garner him the title of Village Voice’s Best Pyrotechnic Action Painter (2008). He learned to produce paintings instinctively, with an emphasis on acceptance of the natural world and the present moment. The idea of the moment, as sought by Zen Buddhists, has been the prominent theme of his work and life.
Naoki is also drawn to the relationship between music and visual art. He collaborated for many years with Tim Wright, of the band DNA. One of his latest projects is Sense of Noise, a performance series featuring artists and musicians improvising together over a single yet constantly transforming idea.
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Is a performer and choreographer; a 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2022 Watermill Center Alumni Mini-Retreat, having performed at the Watermill Gala in 2019. Her newest work, POOL, was commissioned and presented at the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival and the Voices International Theater Festival in June 2023. She has also presented works at The Tank, Dixon Place, La MaMa, NY Butoh Festival, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Next@Graham, Czech Center NY, Triskelion Arts, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater, and Theater Akropolis Prague. As a performer, she has collaborated with LEIMAY, Deganit Shemy, Tami Stronach, Palissimo, Susan Marshall, and Netta Yerushalmy, among others.
Born and bred in NYC, is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She performs solo works that are influenced by performance art and music, and she choreographs collaborative group dance-theater works. She has presented her music compositions and choreography throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Thea has been composing music since she was 5 years old and she has made music for her own choreography as well as for Joya Powell: Movement of the People Dance Company, Gerard and Kelly, Karen Harvey Dances, and LEIMAY. In 2005 Thea was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance Arts during the making of the internationally acclaimed Map for the Lincoln Center Festival, set to Steven Reich’s The Desert Music a very intricate and layered 43-minute score. For four years since 2013, Thea has Co-Directed and co-Produced a multi-disciplinary, collaborative residency in the Berkshires called IMAR.
Derek DiMartini hails from Oakland, California. He likes to view dance as an extension of his passion as a creator and a performer. He has been an ensemble member in since January 2015, and has been teaching The Leimay Ludus Community Class since Summer 2016. In New York, his work has been performed with Mare Nostrum Elements, as well as at LEIMAY SOAK, WAXworks and Marie-Christine Giordano Salon. He has also worked with SumBones Collective and has had the opportunity to perform the works of Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Akram Khan, Reggie Wilson, and Trisha Brown. Derek graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a BA in Theater Studies.
Georgia b. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily creates sculptural and dance/performance art work. Georgia b. was a member of the LEIMAY ensemble as they premiered “Borders” at BAM Fisher in 2016. She has a MFA from the University of Michigan where she launched her series Plastic Abodes and Cavernous Bodies. Georgia b. was the artistic director of NOT for reTALE which showed work at CAVE. Georgia’s work in NOT for reTALE exemplifies how her work incorporates sculpture as an extension of the bodies on stage.
Drew is a multidisciplinary theatre and sound artist, serving as one of three composers for A MEAL. His work often involves the integration of electroacoustic sound with music and live performance to create a heightened sensory experience for audiences. Drew co-created and directed SYNTHESIS, performed as part of LEIMAY’S SOAK 2017; he also produced LEIMAY’s FRANTIC BEAUTY (BAM) and KALAVINKA, LEIMAY’s gala event honoring Meredith Monk. As a designer and composer, Drew’s work has been experienced in New York at HERE, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, and Abrons Arts Center and in DC at Anacostia Arts Center (DC), among others. His work as a director has been seen in New York at HERE, JACK, wild project, Dixon Place, and more. Drew is Artistic Director of Nocturne Productions and a member of the theatre collective Unattended Baggage.
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Alvaro Restrepo (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at Colegio del Cuerpo.
Marie France Delieuvin (Advisory Board) is the Executive Director Colegio del Cuerpo.
Robert Wilson (Honorary Board Member) is the Theater Director at the Watermill Center.
The work that I am exploring is a collaboration with the interdisciplinary visual artist Naomi Andrée Campbell.
We are investigating movements, imagery, and histories of protective animals in our respective Chinese and Japanese backgrounds.
What does incubation mean to you?
A protected place to grow and develop. Where all experimentation (silly, fruitful, dead-end, dada, you name it) is possible.
I will explore the friction between the artist as a mediator and the audience as the medium in the context of live documentation.
What does incubation mean to you?
For me, incubation is the phase/moment of introspection and exploration before an epiphany or catharsis.
Nikki Theroux, Tamara Leigh, Kimie Parker, Hillary Bonhomme. Wldflwr Dance Collective, directed by Tamara Leigh and Nikki Theroux, works towards multidisciplinary and inclusive art-making. Wldflwr has been in residence at Dragon’s Egg in CT, beginning the creative process for “the last to bloom,” the collective’s debut evening-length which premiered at The Tank NYC in 2021. In 2022, they were Artists in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where they began creating “Permanence.”
I’m working with my musical collaborator Alia Scheirman to develop performance environments that allow for a live and mechanically visible integration of movement and sound, making use of everyday objects, looping technology, live drawings, and more.
What does incubation mean to you?
I can be very literal sometimes, so I think about incubating an idea like an egg. Sometimes, you’re not entirely sure what’s gonna hatch from it and when – nor can you really control these things – but you decide to give it your time, care, and energy regardless, dedicating yourself to whatever beautiful or monstrous being might emerge.
The work I will be focusing on in my time at the incubation program will consist of a video project in collaboration with Kyle Carrero Lopez. I will be performing movements, dances, and gestures with Kyle writing poetry in response. It will be a conversion of poetry in dance to poetry in word.
What does the unknown mean to you?
The unknown is both freedom and what we anticipate to be dangerous. I think it stems from the fact that too much freedom can be scary, even deadly.
I am dancing with emotions and trance states, hovering within the intensities they share. I will be premiering a trio at the Chocolate Factory Theater this April 2022 and am also working on a solo premiering in 2023.
What does the unknown mean to you?
The unknown is space for alternative constellations of feeling.
Tyrone is deepening a practice geared towards emotional intelligence through the use of the queer diasporic dance form known as punking.
What does incubation mean to you?
A time for space, play, deep listening and development.
Was born in USSR. She studied Social Realism Painting in Kiev, Ukraine, obtained a BFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Multimedia at Pratt and a Master of Interactive Telecommunications – NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, ITP. Irena has worked as artist in a diverse array of fields, starting from Archaeology, Theater, Children’s books illustrations, Animation, Video, Interactive Multimedia, Game Design, and Creative Code.
She has co-designed and fabricated costumes for LEIMAY’s projects for the past nine years and performed in several LEIMAY projects. She has been a LEIMAY Fellow with her own work as a visual artist collaborating with movement-based performers. She holds degrees from Shevchenko Art School in Kiev, Pratt Institute, and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Jeremy Slater is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net
Andrea Jones (she/her) is a dancer, healthcare chaplain, and yoga instructor. Since 2012, she has been a member of LEIMAY, a multidisciplinary performance ensemble based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Additionally, she is a teacher and active contributor to the development of LEIMAY’s underlying methodology, LUDUS. Andrea is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary where she received a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement. She works as a spiritual care provider at Mount Sinai Downtown within the disciplines of oncology and palliative care. A student of yoga for over 20 years, Andrea is also a certified yoga instructor who teaches regularly at her neighborhood studio. During the years of 2016-2017, she lived in Japan teaching English and studying Noguchi Taiso. She enjoys walking throughout the city, as well as, hiking, dwelling in the mountains and forests, and being-becoming with other plants, waters, critters, and Earth.
Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works and has performed with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Butoh Rockettes, Company So-GoNo, da:zain, Duhon Dance, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater,Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Purring Tigers, Sasha Soreff Dance Company, Sticky Mango Movement, Nathan Trice – Rituals,Vissi Dance Theater,Yukio Waguri and Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug.Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works and has performed with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Butoh Rockettes, Company So-GoNo, da:zain, Duhon Dance, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater,Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Purring Tigers, Sasha Soreff Dance Company, Sticky Mango Movement, Nathan Trice – Rituals,Vissi Dance Theater,Yukio Waguri and Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug.
Operations and Program Support
Megan Kendzior (Development Consultant) is a dance maker and arts advocate who works as a Strategic Development Consultant with a variety of artists and organizations in the dance landscape. She worked for Movement Research as the Development Manager for almost 10 years and her experience translates to helping LEIMAY build its funding and operational infrastructure.
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Krystel Copper (Former Marketing Associate and LEIMAY Ensemble member) is a NYC based artist who has been a member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2016. She has been LEIMAY’s Marketing Associate since 2018, where she oversees content creation for the bi-weeky newsletter and interacts with all daily social media platforms. She holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland, where she graduated Cum Laude in 2010. Krystel has dramatically increased LEIMAY’s visibility over the past 5 years.
Kim Whitener (Honorary Board Member) is the Former Producing Director at the HERE Arts Center.
Kimihiro Sato (Advisory Board) is Director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
Kristin Marting (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at HERE Arts Center.
Genevieve Maquinay (Advisory Board) is the co-founder of Caring for Colombia.
Elise Herget (Advisory Board) is the Executive Director at Watermill Center.
Robert Beswick (Advisory Board) is an Artist/Former Dancer/Real Estate Developer.
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Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space.
Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE’s Artistic Director. He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation.
Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery.
“Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions.
She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira Kasai YumikoY oshiokaa nd Yuko Kasekia among others or CAVEnsembles he has cocreated Elegy #1: A Little of The Sea (2005) and In lllo Tempore (2003). In 2005, she received The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship for emerging Hispanic directors given by El Repertorio Espanol in New York City to produce the full length trilogy Homo Dramaticus by the Argentinean playwright Alberto Adellach.
José Rivera, Jr. (President) is a Puerto Rican – American multimedia performing artist, direc- tor & choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY, merging techniques in performance, fashion, technology, visual art, and theater techniques. NYC: OF CAKE & VANITY (NYU,The PIT), Mad Forest (Radu), ACTING: the first 6 Lessons (Creature Cho- rus), Spring Awakening (Dr.VonBrausepulver), the displacement Project & Qual- ia-Gardens (LEIMAY), Emily Dickinson OUTERSPACE! (Bushwick Starr). Choreo & Direction: Bohemian Lights (LiveSource/HERE), Miami is Sinking (Dixon Place), In the Heights, Passing Strange,The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Songs for a New World. José works admin at CAVE home of LEIMAY. BFA, NYU Tisch 2014.
Raul Zbengheci (he/him) is a Romanian-American cultural organizer, producer, and administrator. If contemporary art and culture functions today as an archipelago composed of small islands, Raul situates himself in the waters between the islands, following the currents and floating softly between different mediums, technologies, and influences. He specializes in producing and commissioning ambitious large scale art projects while also using his skills as a producer to support community groups fighting for social justice. Prior to joining NEW INC, Raul worked with the Whitney Museum of American Art, PERFORMA, Times Square Arts, PROTOTYPE Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more. He served as a LEIMAY board member until 2023.
Polina Porras Sivolobova (Treasurer) is a visual/performing artist of Mexican and Russian descent who has worked as a promoter, fundraiser and public relations official. She has a business management degree from Univ. of Texas at El Paso and received an Entrepreneurial Certification from Queens Economic Development Corporation in 2017. Polina started on staff in 2016 and joined the Board as Secretary in 2022. As a former bookkeeper and financial associate at LEIMAY, Polina understands the organization’s ethos and structure, and is able to contribute this knowledge to the growth and future of LEIMAY.
Fusako Ohta (Emeritus) is philanthropist, haiku writer, tap dancer, real estate investor and former gallerist (Cast Iron Gallery/SoHo). She has been a longtime supporter of LEIMAY as Shige worked at her SoHo gallery when he first arrived from Japan. Fusako joined the Board in 2022 as the President and contributes her deep cultural alignment with the leadership and vision of the organization. She has a comprehensive awareness of the non-profit and gallery landscape, and makes social and capital contributions to the development of LEIMAY.
April 21, 2006
Discover the Tiger: 10 Years of CAVE
Action Installation #3
Performance Installation by CAVEnsemble
Naoki Iwakawa – painter
Shige Moriya – videographer
Grundik Kasyansky – composer
Ximena Garnica – performer / choreographer
With guest performers Kristin Narcowich, Eva Barnett, Hiromi Iuchi
Additional Works
Studio D:
Drew Ford
Studio H:
Hiromi Iuchi
Studio N:
Naoki Iwakawa
Special Guest
DJ Takaya
Complimentary massage and acupressure therapy Plus special Tiger Beet bar
>Video Documentation
From 1996-2006, the gallery at CAVE showed the work of over 300 artists becoming a locus for experimentation in all mediums. CAVE Gallery began as a venture of Shige Moriya and a group of artists in the mid-90’s. Fostered from an industrial rental, they transformed the 3,000 sq ft garage into a live-work space, which was considered to be one of the first recognized galleries of the neighborhood. Away from heavy commercial pressure, in an environment that supported exploration, artists were able to present ‘nakedly’ by offering completed and in-progress works and receiving feedback from peers. In addition to studio arts, openings often included music and other kinds of performances.
Kenta Nagai is a fretless guitar player and composer based in New York City. His technique extends and enhances the expressive range of guitar. From 1999 until 2002 he was a composer in residence at The Cave Gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Kenta was born in Kumamoto Japan and his work is included in the permanent research archive at the Asian American Arts Center in New York city.
Born in New York City in 1971. He grew up in Boston and attended the New England Conservatory extension division where he began studying music theory at age 11. His first serious piece, composed as a sophomore in high school, was accepted into Boston University’s High School Composers Workshop. As a senior in high school he received First Prize in the Harvard Musical Association’s achievement awards.
After high school Mr. Celimli continued his studies at Brandeis University where he studied with Eric Chasalow and Allen Anderson. The Lydian String Quartet (in residence at Brandeis) performed his String Quartet and he was awarded the Reiner Prize for best undergraduate composition two years in a row. Mr. Celimli went on for a Master’s degree in composition in England at the University of Sussex where he studied with Michael Finnissy and was awarded the Stockhausen Prize.
In 1995, on his return from abroad, Mr. Celimli began to participate in new music festivals. Celimli’s scores were presented at the May in Miami and June in Buffalo festivals and at the Music Breaks Free festival back in England. In 1996 Mr. Celimli moved to New York City and began working with modern dance and avant-garde theater companies. Since 1996 Mr. Celimli’s music has been heard throughout the US and Europe in conjunction with numerous dance and theater projects.
Mr. Celimli has worked with many New York City based choreographers including Doug Elkins, Se疣 Curran, Ben Munisteri, Murray Spalding, Tanya Kane-Parry and Jeanette Stoner. Evren Celimli has composed music and designed sound for over 25 dance and theater productions over the past 12 years. He has also composed music for commercials and produced recordings for several independent record labels.
Set design for LAYER ZERO
Born in 22. 7. 1968 in Eisenstadt, 1995 Go to New York, 2001 Go to Berlin, 1991-1995 Study at Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Wien, 2000-2001 Studied at Whitney Museum of American Art, Independent Study Program, New York
Born in Osaka in 1973. MA of Kyoto University of Art and Design.
Artist Statement ; The main theme of her work is “scenery” but she does not mean drawing the real scenery. Instead, she tries to re-establish time and space within a given scenery in a most defined way. By looking at her drawing, one will be able to experience the emotion that the drawing projects. Also, she uses many materials for her works and this is because she applies specific material for specific work. She is one of the most hopeful young artists in Japan.
Andrea Cote is a multi-disciplinary visual artist and dancer living in New York. She has presented solo and collaborative installations and performances in Seattle, Miami, and New York, including Henry Street Settlement’s Abrons Arts Center and Jack the Pelican Presents (New York,) the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, as well as The Dorsch Gallery (Miami) and 911 Media Arts Center (Seattle). She received her MFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase in 2003 and performs with PURE (Public Urban Ritual Experiment.) In her work she questions the boundaries that have traditionally divided artistic disciplines, taking on multiple roles by using her own body as subject, object, and medium. For many years she worked as an artists’ model. These experiences informed her current work, in which she mediates the space between the world inside an artwork and the one in our bodies.
Born in Shikoku Island in Japan, 1981, Hiromi started drawing and painting when she was 4. The subject of Hiromi’s paintings is always an imaginary girl with a textile-like pattern on her face. However, the main subject matter is the extreme emotion hidden behind the face.
Nao Sakamoto, studied film theory at the Collage of Staten Island of CU.N.Y and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC. He was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. ”My sound works create space, sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as lanquage”. ———- I studied film theory at the CUNY College of Staten Island and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, in New York. I was the chief sound organizer at the KOAP Gallery, New York in 1995. Since 1996, I have collaborated with many visual artists and sound performers at CAVE Gallery (Brooklyn, NY), the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn, NY), the Knitting Factory (New York), and in galleries throughout New York, Japan and Europe. My sound works create a sense of space consciousness, which sparks a kinesthetic response in the listener. The sound composition I created for Cenesthesia is structurally based on architectural thought. And yet the sound still affects the listener as though it were language.
Brief self comment: I studied film theory at the College of Staten Island of C.U.N.Y. and audio recording/engineering at the Institute of Audio Research, NYC NY. I was the chief sound organizer at the K.O.A.P. gallery, NY in 1995. From 1996 to present, I have collaborated with many visual artists and sound performers at THE CAVE (Brooklyn NY), the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center (Brooklyn NY), the Knitting Factory (NYC NY) ,and galleries in NYC ,Japan & Europe. My sound works create space , sense and consciousness, effecting a kinesthetic response in the hearer, “CENESTHESIA”, and have structure based on architectural thought, the sound acting as language.
Naoki Iwakawa was born in Osaka, Japan, in 1967. Growing up, he became interested the New York art world after reading about it in magazines. He graduated from Osaka University of the Arts, where he also taught briefly as an assistant professor of Graphic Design.
At the age of 24 he moved to New York City, where he began showing art at OK Harris and Noho Gallery in Manhattan. In 1996, he co-founded the CAVE, an experimental art space that fostered an eclectic group of musicians, artists, and performers. At the CAVE, he further developed his interest in live performance painting as well as the artistic use of fire, a practice that would later garner him the title of Village Voice’s Best Pyrotechnic Action Painter (2008). He learned to produce paintings instinctively, with an emphasis on acceptance of the natural world and the present moment. The idea of the moment, as sought by Zen Buddhists, has been the prominent theme of his work and life.
Naoki is also drawn to the relationship between music and visual art. He collaborated for many years with Tim Wright, of the band DNA. One of his latest projects is Sense of Noise, a performance series featuring artists and musicians improvising together over a single yet constantly transforming idea.
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Is a performer and choreographer; a 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2022 Watermill Center Alumni Mini-Retreat, having performed at the Watermill Gala in 2019. Her newest work, POOL, was commissioned and presented at the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival and the Voices International Theater Festival in June 2023. She has also presented works at The Tank, Dixon Place, La MaMa, NY Butoh Festival, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Next@Graham, Czech Center NY, Triskelion Arts, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater, and Theater Akropolis Prague. As a performer, she has collaborated with LEIMAY, Deganit Shemy, Tami Stronach, Palissimo, Susan Marshall, and Netta Yerushalmy, among others.
Born and bred in NYC, is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She performs solo works that are influenced by performance art and music, and she choreographs collaborative group dance-theater works. She has presented her music compositions and choreography throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Thea has been composing music since she was 5 years old and she has made music for her own choreography as well as for Joya Powell: Movement of the People Dance Company, Gerard and Kelly, Karen Harvey Dances, and LEIMAY. In 2005 Thea was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance Arts during the making of the internationally acclaimed Map for the Lincoln Center Festival, set to Steven Reich’s The Desert Music a very intricate and layered 43-minute score. For four years since 2013, Thea has Co-Directed and co-Produced a multi-disciplinary, collaborative residency in the Berkshires called IMAR.
Derek DiMartini hails from Oakland, California. He likes to view dance as an extension of his passion as a creator and a performer. He has been an ensemble member in since January 2015, and has been teaching The Leimay Ludus Community Class since Summer 2016. In New York, his work has been performed with Mare Nostrum Elements, as well as at LEIMAY SOAK, WAXworks and Marie-Christine Giordano Salon. He has also worked with SumBones Collective and has had the opportunity to perform the works of Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Akram Khan, Reggie Wilson, and Trisha Brown. Derek graduated from Yale University in 2013 with a BA in Theater Studies.
Georgia b. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily creates sculptural and dance/performance art work. Georgia b. was a member of the LEIMAY ensemble as they premiered “Borders” at BAM Fisher in 2016. She has a MFA from the University of Michigan where she launched her series Plastic Abodes and Cavernous Bodies. Georgia b. was the artistic director of NOT for reTALE which showed work at CAVE. Georgia’s work in NOT for reTALE exemplifies how her work incorporates sculpture as an extension of the bodies on stage.
Drew is a multidisciplinary theatre and sound artist, serving as one of three composers for A MEAL. His work often involves the integration of electroacoustic sound with music and live performance to create a heightened sensory experience for audiences. Drew co-created and directed SYNTHESIS, performed as part of LEIMAY’S SOAK 2017; he also produced LEIMAY’s FRANTIC BEAUTY (BAM) and KALAVINKA, LEIMAY’s gala event honoring Meredith Monk. As a designer and composer, Drew’s work has been experienced in New York at HERE, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, and Abrons Arts Center and in DC at Anacostia Arts Center (DC), among others. His work as a director has been seen in New York at HERE, JACK, wild project, Dixon Place, and more. Drew is Artistic Director of Nocturne Productions and a member of the theatre collective Unattended Baggage.
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Alvaro Restrepo (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at Colegio del Cuerpo.
Marie France Delieuvin (Advisory Board) is the Executive Director Colegio del Cuerpo.
Robert Wilson (Honorary Board Member) is the Theater Director at the Watermill Center.
The work that I am exploring is a collaboration with the interdisciplinary visual artist Naomi Andrée Campbell.
We are investigating movements, imagery, and histories of protective animals in our respective Chinese and Japanese backgrounds.
What does incubation mean to you?
A protected place to grow and develop. Where all experimentation (silly, fruitful, dead-end, dada, you name it) is possible.
I will explore the friction between the artist as a mediator and the audience as the medium in the context of live documentation.
What does incubation mean to you?
For me, incubation is the phase/moment of introspection and exploration before an epiphany or catharsis.
Nikki Theroux, Tamara Leigh, Kimie Parker, Hillary Bonhomme. Wldflwr Dance Collective, directed by Tamara Leigh and Nikki Theroux, works towards multidisciplinary and inclusive art-making. Wldflwr has been in residence at Dragon’s Egg in CT, beginning the creative process for “the last to bloom,” the collective’s debut evening-length which premiered at The Tank NYC in 2021. In 2022, they were Artists in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where they began creating “Permanence.”
I’m working with my musical collaborator Alia Scheirman to develop performance environments that allow for a live and mechanically visible integration of movement and sound, making use of everyday objects, looping technology, live drawings, and more.
What does incubation mean to you?
I can be very literal sometimes, so I think about incubating an idea like an egg. Sometimes, you’re not entirely sure what’s gonna hatch from it and when – nor can you really control these things – but you decide to give it your time, care, and energy regardless, dedicating yourself to whatever beautiful or monstrous being might emerge.
The work I will be focusing on in my time at the incubation program will consist of a video project in collaboration with Kyle Carrero Lopez. I will be performing movements, dances, and gestures with Kyle writing poetry in response. It will be a conversion of poetry in dance to poetry in word.
What does the unknown mean to you?
The unknown is both freedom and what we anticipate to be dangerous. I think it stems from the fact that too much freedom can be scary, even deadly.
I am dancing with emotions and trance states, hovering within the intensities they share. I will be premiering a trio at the Chocolate Factory Theater this April 2022 and am also working on a solo premiering in 2023.
What does the unknown mean to you?
The unknown is space for alternative constellations of feeling.
Tyrone is deepening a practice geared towards emotional intelligence through the use of the queer diasporic dance form known as punking.
What does incubation mean to you?
A time for space, play, deep listening and development.
Was born in USSR. She studied Social Realism Painting in Kiev, Ukraine, obtained a BFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Multimedia at Pratt and a Master of Interactive Telecommunications – NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, ITP. Irena has worked as artist in a diverse array of fields, starting from Archaeology, Theater, Children’s books illustrations, Animation, Video, Interactive Multimedia, Game Design, and Creative Code.
She has co-designed and fabricated costumes for LEIMAY’s projects for the past nine years and performed in several LEIMAY projects. She has been a LEIMAY Fellow with her own work as a visual artist collaborating with movement-based performers. She holds degrees from Shevchenko Art School in Kiev, Pratt Institute, and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU.
Jeremy Slater is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net
Andrea Jones (she/her) is a dancer, healthcare chaplain, and yoga instructor. Since 2012, she has been a member of LEIMAY, a multidisciplinary performance ensemble based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Additionally, she is a teacher and active contributor to the development of LEIMAY’s underlying methodology, LUDUS. Andrea is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary where she received a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement. She works as a spiritual care provider at Mount Sinai Downtown within the disciplines of oncology and palliative care. A student of yoga for over 20 years, Andrea is also a certified yoga instructor who teaches regularly at her neighborhood studio. During the years of 2016-2017, she lived in Japan teaching English and studying Noguchi Taiso. She enjoys walking throughout the city, as well as, hiking, dwelling in the mountains and forests, and being-becoming with other plants, waters, critters, and Earth.
Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works and has performed with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Butoh Rockettes, Company So-GoNo, da:zain, Duhon Dance, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater,Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Purring Tigers, Sasha Soreff Dance Company, Sticky Mango Movement, Nathan Trice – Rituals,Vissi Dance Theater,Yukio Waguri and Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug.Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works and has performed with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Butoh Rockettes, Company So-GoNo, da:zain, Duhon Dance, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater,Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Purring Tigers, Sasha Soreff Dance Company, Sticky Mango Movement, Nathan Trice – Rituals,Vissi Dance Theater,Yukio Waguri and Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug.
Operations and Program Support
Megan Kendzior (Development Consultant) is a dance maker and arts advocate who works as a Strategic Development Consultant with a variety of artists and organizations in the dance landscape. She worked for Movement Research as the Development Manager for almost 10 years and her experience translates to helping LEIMAY build its funding and operational infrastructure.
Former Financials and Accounting
Krystel Copper (Former Marketing Associate and LEIMAY Ensemble member) is a NYC based artist who has been a member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2016. She has been LEIMAY’s Marketing Associate since 2018, where she oversees content creation for the bi-weeky newsletter and interacts with all daily social media platforms. She holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland, where she graduated Cum Laude in 2010. Krystel has dramatically increased LEIMAY’s visibility over the past 5 years.
Kim Whitener (Honorary Board Member) is the Former Producing Director at the HERE Arts Center.
Kimihiro Sato (Advisory Board) is Director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.
Kristin Marting (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at HERE Arts Center.
Genevieve Maquinay (Advisory Board) is the co-founder of Caring for Colombia.
Elise Herget (Advisory Board) is the Executive Director at Watermill Center.
Robert Beswick (Advisory Board) is an Artist/Former Dancer/Real Estate Developer.
philosophy and Gutai performance
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Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space.
Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but in 1996 Moriya moved to Williamsburg and opened CAVE. Since then he has been CAVE’s Artistic Director. He has presented his video pieces both locally and internationally in Germany, Japan and Vietnam. In 2002 he received a grant for a residence in Hanoi, which was partly funded by the Ford Foundation.
Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery.
“Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions.
She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira Kasai YumikoY oshiokaa nd Yuko Kasekia among others or CAVEnsembles he has cocreated Elegy #1: A Little of The Sea (2005) and In lllo Tempore (2003). In 2005, she received The Edward and Sally Van Lier Fellowship for emerging Hispanic directors given by El Repertorio Espanol in New York City to produce the full length trilogy Homo Dramaticus by the Argentinean playwright Alberto Adellach.
José Rivera, Jr. (President) is a Puerto Rican – American multimedia performing artist, direc- tor & choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY, merging techniques in performance, fashion, technology, visual art, and theater techniques. NYC: OF CAKE & VANITY (NYU,The PIT), Mad Forest (Radu), ACTING: the first 6 Lessons (Creature Cho- rus), Spring Awakening (Dr.VonBrausepulver), the displacement Project & Qual- ia-Gardens (LEIMAY), Emily Dickinson OUTERSPACE! (Bushwick Starr). Choreo & Direction: Bohemian Lights (LiveSource/HERE), Miami is Sinking (Dixon Place), In the Heights, Passing Strange,The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Songs for a New World. José works admin at CAVE home of LEIMAY. BFA, NYU Tisch 2014.
Raul Zbengheci (he/him) is a Romanian-American cultural organizer, producer, and administrator. If contemporary art and culture functions today as an archipelago composed of small islands, Raul situates himself in the waters between the islands, following the currents and floating softly between different mediums, technologies, and influences. He specializes in producing and commissioning ambitious large scale art projects while also using his skills as a producer to support community groups fighting for social justice. Prior to joining NEW INC, Raul worked with the Whitney Museum of American Art, PERFORMA, Times Square Arts, PROTOTYPE Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more. He served as a LEIMAY board member until 2023.
Polina Porras Sivolobova (Treasurer) is a visual/performing artist of Mexican and Russian descent who has worked as a promoter, fundraiser and public relations official. She has a business management degree from Univ. of Texas at El Paso and received an Entrepreneurial Certification from Queens Economic Development Corporation in 2017. Polina started on staff in 2016 and joined the Board as Secretary in 2022. As a former bookkeeper and financial associate at LEIMAY, Polina understands the organization’s ethos and structure, and is able to contribute this knowledge to the growth and future of LEIMAY.
Fusako Ohta (Emeritus) is philanthropist, haiku writer, tap dancer, real estate investor and former gallerist (Cast Iron Gallery/SoHo). She has been a longtime supporter of LEIMAY as Shige worked at her SoHo gallery when he first arrived from Japan. Fusako joined the Board in 2022 as the President and contributes her deep cultural alignment with the leadership and vision of the organization. She has a comprehensive awareness of the non-profit and gallery landscape, and makes social and capital contributions to the development of LEIMAY.
April 21, 2006
Discover the Tiger: 10 Years of CAVE
Action Installation #3
Performance Installation by CAVEnsemble
Naoki Iwakawa – painter
Shige Moriya – videographer
Grundik Kasyansky – composer
Ximena Garnica – performer / choreographer
With guest performers Kristin Narcowich, Eva Barnett, Hiromi Iuchi
Additional Works
Studio D:
Drew Ford
Studio H:
Hiromi Iuchi
Studio N:
Naoki Iwakawa
Special Guest
DJ Takaya
Complimentary massage and acupressure therapy Plus special Tiger Beet bar
>Video Documentation
From 1996-2006, the gallery at CAVE showed the work of over 300 artists becoming a locus for experimentation in all mediums. CAVE Gallery began as a venture of Shige Moriya and a group of artists in the mid-90’s. Fostered from an industrial rental, they transformed the 3,000 sq ft garage into a live-work space, which was considered to be one of the first recognized galleries of the neighborhood. Away from heavy commercial pressure, in an environment that supported exploration, artists were able to present ‘nakedly’ by offering completed and in-progress works and receiving feedback from peers. In addition to studio arts, openings often included music and other kinds of performances.
April 9, 2006
Moving Image
Curated by Drew Ford
Part 1 – Beyond Performance
1. Jimmy Sadoski – A Star Is Born – 1min0sec (USA)
2. Takeshi Fukunaga – Blue Wall – 2min0sec (Japan)
3. Kata Mejia – Urban Rites – 4min0sec (Colombia)
4. Cai Qing – Bring Che Back To New York From Miami Beach – 8min0sec (China) 5. Nadine Norman – Darlings – 6min30sec (Canada)
6. Songyi Kim – The Visits – 3min40sec (South Korea)
Part 2 – Exercise in Abstraction
7. Artur R. Kummer & Lilka Hara – Joy – 3min0sec (Brazil) 8. Anders Weberg – 05.10.38 – 5min37sec (Sweden)
9. Bo Lee – Untitled One – 1min20sec (USA)
10. Juan Kasari – alkue_00 – 4min50sec (Finland)
11. Kenji Hayasaki – Confusion – 3min0sec (Japan)
12. Pat Aveoli – odj – 6min0sec (USA)
Part 3 – Capturing A Moment In Time
13. Rene Sultra – Manhattan/Souls – 6min0sec (France)
14. Jeeyun Kim – A Study (On Movement) – 3min34sec (South Korea)
15. Hayley Barker – Running Before the Darkness Falls – 7min0sec (USA)
16. Yangah Ham – Tourism in Communism – 6min40sec (South Korea)
Part4–Tell Me a Story
17. Kader Muzaqi – Balkan is Different – 3min58sec (Kosovo)
18. Ryan Seslo – tk – 8min0sec (USA)
19. Neal Zero – Absolution – 5min45sec (USA)
20. Eunsu Kang – Masked Girl – 4min12sec (South Korea)
21. Matthew Newman – And What We Move Is Dead – 14min0sec (USA)
Part 5 Meditative Motion
22. Unn Fahlstrom – Hundre Runner – 7min0sec (Norway)
23. Jayhyun Park – For Savrina – 6min0sec (South Korea)
24. Atsuko Tanaka – 1975-2001 – 7min11sec (Japan)
25. Oliver Lyons – Point – 4min51sec (USA)
26. Hiromi Iuchi – After the Rain – 15min52sec (Japan)
>Video Documentation
From 1996-2006, the gallery at CAVE showed the work of over 300 artists becoming a locus for experimentation in all mediums. CAVE Gallery began as a venture of Shige Moriya and a group of artists in the mid-90’s. Fostered from an industrial rental, they transformed the 3,000 sq ft garage into a live-work space, which was considered to be one of the first recognized galleries of the neighborhood. Away from heavy commercial pressure, in an environment that supported exploration, artists were able to present ‘nakedly’ by offering completed and in-progress works and receiving feedback from peers. In addition to studio arts, openings often included music and other kinds of performances.