New York-based multidisciplinary artists Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica and their performance company, the LEIMAY Ensemble, interpret works by graduate music composition students Celeste Betancur, Anna Golubkova, Lemon Guo, and Mike Mulshine.

From dance music to musical AI personae to real-time sculpture construction, these in-progress works were created during a one-week residency at the Elliott Program Center, supported by the Stanford Department of Music. Co-Directors Ximena and Shige worked with members of the LEIMAY Ensemble (Masanori Asahara, Krystel Copper,  Maitlin Jordan, and Akane Little) to choreograph and interpret the compositions in conversation with the four graduate composers, resulting in four multimedia performances of music, performance, and dance:

• Performance 1: Pandora’s Dream
• Performance 2: Eidolon
• Performance 3: 鬼火 (Gui Huo)
• Performance 4: Home

Pandora’s Dreams — Celeste Betancur
Pandora is a messy and chaotic software that can learn from pixels and audio inputs. She has been learning during the last year from artist from all over the world including RGGTRN (Mex), Distractfold (UK), Jack Armitage (UK Iceland), Slork (USA), Sami Wurm (USA) and now she is prepared to takes us into one of her deepest dreams in collaboration with LEIMAY Ensemble. The music will be selected/generated/mixed by her using her previous training on the above-mentioned artist and the visuals are part of recordings captured during rehearsals with the LEIMAY dancers.

Eidolon — Anna Golubkova
Stanford DMA student Anna in collaboration with LEIMY Ensemble presents Eidolon, a 7-minute dance performance exploring the complexities of identity perception. Morphing facial projections on stage create a visually dynamic backdrop for the dancers’ movement, reflecting the ever-shifting nature of self. The performance is driven by pulsating rhythms and hypnotic bass, as the dancers navigate the dynamic interplay between external projections and internal reflections.

鬼火 (Gui Huo) — Lemon Guo
鬼火 are balls of fire that appear near cemeteries or deserted areas at night. I imagine it as the afterlife of all that is internalized in the body during the lifetime. Loosely based on folk songs from the Kam people in southwest China and a funeral ritual from northeast China.

Home — Mike Mulshine
“Home” explores pluralistic conceptions of home through sound, movement, and sculpture. Home is a place, a community, or a feeling. To Masa, Maitlin, Akane, and Krystel, home is: “where delicious food touches my heart”…“being around the bonfire at my Aunt Wendy’s house”…“where the blankets are”…“an anchor to an infinite tether.”

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