Tethered
Shira Kagan-Shafman
LEIMAY PRESENTING SERIES SUMMER/FALL 2025: OUTSIGHT
~An exploration of anchorage and entanglement.~
Tethered is a project woven together through a shared process of investigation into contingent sonic and gestural vulnerabilities. This work is an accumulation of creative threads, which we are increasingly finding ourselves tethered to as we conceptualize further possibilities for this vibrant salvaging of materials.
Documentation
An afternoon of performance featuring works by LEIMAY Incubator Program alumni and community members — a group of local and international artists working within movement-based practices.
Saturday August 30th:
Shira Kagan-Shafman – Tethered
Emilija Berga – Revisit
Sylvain Souklaye – A Tipping Point
Sunday August 31st:
Kanami Kusajima – Wind
Synead Cidney Nichols – There Is Something In Her Blood
Mehrnam Rastegari & Julia Kolakova – Persian music and dance
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2025.7000.1Year Created
2025Date Recorded
20250830Language
EnglishCurated Filters
Space / Location
Premiere Venue
Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community GardenAugust 30-31, 2025
174 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, NY
Shira Kagan-Shafman is a New York based dancer, choreographer and multidisciplinary artist. Her work has been presented at Baryshnikov Arts Center, Poster House museum, Arts on Site, Spring for Spring Dance Festival, Triskelion Arts, Green Space, Ki Smith Gallery and Barnard College’s Movement Lab. She was a recipient of the 2023 B. Wilson Foundation Grant, a 2023 artist-in-residence at Mother’s Milk and a 2024 LEIMAY Incubator artist.
Photos by Benja Thompson
OUTSIGHT is a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art, experimental music, and butoh. Most OUTSIGHT artists have been part of the LEIMAY Incubator Program which provides them with process-focused resources. The performances are set within one of NYRP’s community gardens.
OUTSIGHT is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature and the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
This year, one OUTSIGHT artist is proudly sponsored by Studio Birdhaus. Since 2012, Studio Birdhaus has served as a platform for sharing embodied practice through storytelling and performance & visual arts.
