Pollen: Veils of Pearl redux & bloomdances

Benja Thompson

LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES 2026: CONSTELLATION SERIES

Pollen presented the third and final night of expanded cinema on May 10th, 2026 at CAVE featuring two curated programs. This Pollen instance transmitted video spells submitted by artists from around the world, alongside experimental performances folding the screen and stage.

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Pollen III
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Program 1, Veils of Pearl redux, plunges towards unknowingness, testing the memory of stone and bone.
Fjord Time – Jonathan Onsuwan Johnson and Carleen Maur
echoes of a zephyr – Josh Weissbach
Hurricane Season – Michelle Trujillo
Flowers for an Old Shrine – Long Pham
Imagine The Fire – Zachary Yap
The Stream V + XIII – Hiroya Sakurai
Miles & Kilometres – Sonali Gulati
Notes from Silences – Alexandra Kumala
Old World – Roland Cartagena
IMI – Alyxåndra Ciale and Gia Abucejo

Program 2, bloomdances, flourishes with flickering memory and cosmic movement.
Spring Forth – Andrew Tamburrino
Kiss Me – Ruxandra Mitache and SImona Nastac
The Escape – Erica Schreiner
My Body is a Lens I Can Look Through With My Mind – Ellery Bryan
TACTILITY – Scott Harris
Come On Down – Kawon Lee
elements – Shannon Yu
Listen to the wind eight hundred times – Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu
novabody – Frankie Yu and Vic Fu

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AMP.PRG.2026.ConSr.4

Year Created

2026

Performance dates

2026-05-10 00:00:00

Language

English

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Premiere Venue

CAVE Home Of LEIMAY
58 Grand Street, Brooklyn NYC

Created by Benja Thompson

Roberto Molina

Pollen is produced and curated by Benja Thompson as part of the LEIMAY At Homme: Constellation, co-presented with LEIMAY at CAVE, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, within WEAVE.

LEIMAY is supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. And the Howard Gilman Foundation, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The New York Community Trust, the Mellon Foundationand many generous contributions from individual donors.

LEIMAY’s works, community, and coalition programs are supported in part, by public funds from the New York City Department Of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; National Endowment for the Arts; the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; the NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre by the City of New York Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment in association with The New York Foundation for the Arts. And by Creative Capital, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, the National Performance Network (NPN); and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Mellon Foundation.

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