Schedule:
Activation periods* with performers:

June 4, 2022, Saturday: 

12 pm Activation 1
12:50-1:05 Mini-workshop 1 

2 pm Activation 2
2:50-3:05 Mini-workshop 2 

4pm Activation 3
4:50-5:05 Mini-workshop 3 

8pm Activation 4   

June 5, 2022, Sunday: 

11am Activation 1
11:50-12:05 Mini-workshop 1 

1pm Activation 2
1:50-2:05 Mini-workshop 2 

3pm Activation 3
3:50-4:05 Mini-workshop 3 

5pm Activation 3

*Activation periods with performers are 35 minutes long
We invite you to use your phones to take photos and videos & contribute to the Correspondences Audience Files! While experiencing the work, please note your image may be recorded as part of Correspondences films and art. 

In addition to live outdoor performances, Correspondences at Snug Harbor includes:

Interstitial Family Workshops A mini LUDUS offering for all ages, utilizing gravity and other natural principles in correspondence with natural elements, to activate and discover interconnectivity through embodied movement. Family workshops will happen between Correspondences performance activations (see schedule).

Correspondences Audience Files: A growing oral and written interactive archive for audiences to engage with over conversation by sharing their responses to questions of being, interdependence, connectivity, and environmental ethics. QR codes located on the grounds guide audiences to participate both on-site and on-line. Correspondences Audience Files will be open to the public to engage for 30 days starting a week prior to the installation launch. (May 27, 2021 | www.correspondencesfiles.leimay.org)

Correspondences On-Demand:  For a limited period of time, two different art films capturing the meditative nature of Correspondences will be available for on-demand access during the month of June at www.ondemand.leimay.org)

About LEIMAY

LEIMAY is a grassroots non-profit arts organization and ensemble based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn since 1996. LEIMAY attracts, provokes, and supports exchange and generative confrontation, among culturally diverse audiences and artists, by producing work and programs that center the creation and the experience of art as catalysts to transform ourselves and the world around us.

About Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya

Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya are a Colombian and Japanese artist duo working in the visual and performing arts fields as multidisciplinary artists, directors, choreographers, curators, and teachers. Their collaborative works include performances, sculptural, video, mixed-media, and light installations as well as photography and film projects. Ximena and Shige also invest their energy in critical research, printed and digital publications, educational activities, and community projects.

Their work is rooted in questions of being,  perception, interdependency, and coexistence. They look to expose the multiplicity of spatial and temporal intervals that exist within the body, between materials and environments. They are curious about what emerges when the stability of habits, affirmation of binaries, social norm expectations, and the crystallization of identity dissolve and expose the potentialities of being. 

Ximena and Shige are the co-founders and co-artistic directors of the arts organization LEIMAY and the performance group the LEIMAY Ensemble. The word LEIMAY is a Japanese term symbolizing the moment of change as in the moment between darkness and the light of dawn, or the transition from one era to the other. Their work exists in different domains, from proscenium settings to museums, galleries and outdoors in public spaces such as plazas, gardens and parks.  Their works have been presented at leading arts venues such as BAM, HERE, The Brooklyn Museum, Japan Society, The Czech Center New York, The New Museum, The Watermill Center, The Asian Museum of San Francisco, Carnegie Mellon University; and in large and small public spaces such as Times Square, NYRP Community Gardens, and NYC streets, among many other spaces in the US and abroad in Japan, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Mexico, and Colombia.  

They have been nominated for the USA Artists Fellowship and the Herb Alpert Award. They have been part of the Bessie Schonberg Individual Choreographers  Residency at the Yard, and the Watermill Center Residency Program. Currently they are part of the HERE  Artist Residency Program. Ximena was a recipient of the Van Lier Fellowship for extraordinary stage directors, and she was a Distinguished Visiting  Professor at the University of California Riverside 2018-2019. Her article ‘LEIMAY, CAVE,  and the New York Butoh Festival’ was recently published in The Routledge  Companion to Butoh Performance. She has been a faculty member at MIT, Marymount Manhattan College, and Sarah Lawrence College.

Ximena and Shige are advocates of affordable live-work spaces and their work (2014-2019) was instrumental in effecting changes at the NY State level to protect live-work spaces in New York City. 

About the LEIMAY Ensemble

The LEIMAY is a group of national and international dancers and performers who create body-centered works around the principle of LUDUS, a practice developed by Ximena, Shige and the group that explores physical methods to develop a sensitivity to the “in-between space.”. The group holds a regular practice at their  studio in Brooklyn where they engage in the creation of new work in addition  to teaching, training, research, and distillation of years of direct transmission of  embodied knowledge by Japanese Butoh pioneers, Noguchi Taiso practitioners,and Experimental Theater innovators.

LEIMAY Ensemble Members for Correspondences at Snug Harbor:

Masanori Asahara* is a Japanese born dancer, choreographer and improvisation artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Masanori has been a core member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2010. He has toured, taught, and performed with the ensemble for over a decade. 

Krystel Copper* is a second-generation immigrant dance artist born to parents from Argentina and Portugal. She joined LEIMAY as a member of the performance and research ensemble in 2016 for the premiere of Frantic Beauty at BAM. Krystel holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland. 

Irena Romendik  is a Ukrainian visual artist based in Brooklyn for the past two decades. 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 D. Slater has worked with LEIMAY in several projects since 2009, creating original soundscapes for performances and installation. He is an intermedia artist working in the areas of sound, video, computer art, performance, installation, and words. Born in Reading, England and a graduate of both SUNY College at Buffalo and School of Visual Arts with an MFA in Computer Art.

*Core LEIMAY Ensemble

FIGMENT is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization entirely funded by grants and individual donations. FIGMENT accepts no corporate sponsorship of any kind; nothing is for sale and nothing is sold at the event. Everything you see at FIGMENT is born from a simple desire to share imagination with each other.

Support

Correspondences is presented by LEIMAY in partnership with Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden and Figment NYC

The Staten Island borough premiere of Correspondences is supported, in part, by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, as well as many generous individual donors and in-kind contributions by NYC Figment and HERE.

Snug Harbor arts programming is made possible through generous support from the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, 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 New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Additional/Other

Correspondences Manhattan borough premiere premiered at New York City’s Astor Place as part of HERE’s #stillHERE IRL program." 

Correspondences was first developed at LEIMAY's studio in South Williamsburg, with in-progress performances at the Watermill Center in the summer of 2019.

LEIMAY would like to acknowledge the participation of the following performers in the initial development phase of Correspondences: Alessandro Anglani, Krystel Copper, Derek DiMartini, Nini Dongnier, Thanos Fryda, Andrea Jones, Suhwa Kim, and Sorin Prodea.

Help bring Correspondences to NYC's 5 Boroughs and Beyond!

LEIMAY is a community run organization that depends on the circulation of resources within our community. Programs like this one are made possible by your support. If you are in a position to donate, it would be greatly appreciated. 

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Historically, organizations like LEIMAY have gone and remained underfunded due to a myriad of reasons. As a small non-profit organization, one of the ways in which we can have access to resources is by applying to grants to government agencies and private foundations. In the past, our applications have not been competitive enough due to our lack of data collection of the communities we serve. As we continue to work towards accessing funds to our programs, we ask you to please help us by answering the questions provided. The information you provide will remain anonymous in any application or reporting. Please note that every question is optional, including the assigning of your name to your response.