IN PERSON Classes//
LEIMAY LUDUS Ensemble Class
Mondays , September 27-December 13
Class starts Promptly at 1 PM and goes until 2:50 PM
Studio Opens at 12:30PM
In Person-Very limited Capacity
Location: CAVE home of LEIMAY
58 Grand Street
Brooklyn NY
Come train with the LEIMAY Ensemble!
Led by Andrea Jones*, LEIMAY Ensemble Senior Member, this LEIMAY LUDUS Ensemble class is shaped by the regular practice of the LEIMAY Ensemble.
It offers body conditioning as well as guided physical explorations. The practice seeks to expand embodied and sensorial consciousness through enabling multiple realms of perception. It utilizes improvisation as a means of personal exploration. Each dancer’s potential is cultivated to develop a unique movement language rooted in the body's materiality and transformation as encountered through listening to the rhythms and textures of the non-human.
LEIMAY LUDUS seeks to stimulate imagination, enrich creativity, and expand notions of body, space, and time by challenging euro-centric dance and performance training frameworks.
LEIMAY LUDUS is based on principles developed by LEIMAY's Artistic Co-Director Ximena Garnica through nearly two decades of her study of Butoh, Noguchi Taiso, and Experimental theater.
*In the event that Andrea Jones is unavailable, Class will be led by LEIMAY Ensemble Members Masanori Asahara or Krystel Copper
The following are required to attend this IN PERSON class:
- Registration for 4 or more sessions
- Proof of Vaccination
- Masks
Please note that you must register below and pay IN ADVANCE for at least 4 sessions to join.
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Should you find yourself precluded to participating, due to currency exchange or lack of income during the time of the pandemic, please send us a message at [email protected] - no one will be turned away due to a lack of funds!
Each cycle of LEIMAY classes will have an Encore class in which 100% of proceeds go to support various social justice causes. Organizations supported in the past have included: NAACP, Black Visions Collective, Brave Space Alliance, The Okra Project, and Homeless Black Trans Women Fund, Organización Nacional de los Pueblos Indígenas de la Amazonia Colombiana, Green Worker Cooperatives, El Puente, and The Loisaida Center.
Andrea Jones has been a core member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2012. Since 2013, she has been a teacher and active contributor to the development of LUDUS, LEIMAY’s underlying methodology. She is currently pursuing a Masters of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary within the field of Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement. During the years of 2016-2017, she lived in Japan studying Noguchi Taiso and upon returning to the United States, began exploring her interest in end-of-life care. She became certified as a death doula in 2018 with hopes of furthering her engagement through interfaith hospital chaplaincy. She is also a certified yoga instructor, who teaches regularly at a studio in Queens.
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 participating in Becoming Series at BAM Fisher [Becoming Corpus (2013), borders (2015), Frantic Beauty (2016)], Alius Bodies (2018), Bodies on the Brink (, Unplugged (, Thresholds (, among other works. He is currently finishing Dharma Yoga teaching training, and working on developing new curriculums for LEIMAY LUDUS. He has worked for choreographers Kota Yamazaki, Isabel Gotzkowsky, and Nathan Trice, and has collaborated with visual artists, installation artists, musicians, filmmakers and multimedia artists in a variety of projects.
Krystel Copper has been a core member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2016. She originally joined LEIMAY for the premiere of Frantic Beauty at BAM. She is a second-generation immigrant artist born to parents from Argentina and Portugal. Krystel holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland. She has performed with Amanda+James, Gesel Mason Performance Projects, B3W, Anahata Dance, CircuitDebris, Caenis at Pace, Estado Flotante, and Not for ReTALE, as well as presented her own work at DNA (2012), and ECHT Vision (2019) in collaboration with Ron Copper. Krystel has been contributing to the development of LEIMAY LUDUS and is currently training to be a LUDUS teaching artist.
