
A Meal Encounter #4
Video Installation
Ximena Garnica + Shige Moriya & LEIMAY Ensemble
Work In Progress
A Meal exists as social sculpture, performance event, and theatrical experience delicately framed by dancing bodies, crafted recipes, and mythological beings.
Documentation
ENCOUNTERS / SKETCHES / FABRICATION
Parallel to this installation, LEIMAY hosted three different outdoor encounters with guests speakers, artists and community members for intimate audiences.
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Storytelling Recipe Circle & Bookbinding Workshop
Audiences participate in a storytelling recipe circle and Japanese book-binding workshop, sharing memories through food.
- Reconnecting with the Land, a conversation with Saada Amadu, Michelle Jackson, and Qiana Mickie about the tensions of reconnecting with the land.
- Cultivating Home: Mapping Ourselves Through Food and Ecology, featured farmer-artist Sawdayah Brownlee in an event of cooking, eating and conversation around food as a catalyst for understanding and reconnecting with home.
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https://here.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RAW_program_ameal.pdf
Object Identifier
AMP.PRG.2018.1000.93.4ID number
2018.1000.93.4Year Created
2021Language
EnglishSeries
A MealCurated Filters
- Meeting Points
Space / Location
- LEIMAY Intensives
Premiere Venue
HERE Art Center2021
145 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10013
Premiere Venue specific dates
Video Installation co-conceived, directed, and designed by
Shige Moriya and Ximena Garnica
Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Masanori Asahara*, Krystel Copper*, Mar Galeano*, Andrea Jones*, Sophie Holmes, Brandon Perdomo, Irena Romendik
*Core Ensemble Member
Video Installation by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Light & Scenic Design by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya
Costume Design by Ximena Garnica and Irena Romendik
Choreography by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya with the LEIMAY Ensemble
LEIMAY Ensemble performers featured in Video Portraits: Masanori Asahara*, Krystel Copper*, Mar Galeano*, Sophie Holmes, Andrea Jones*, Brandon Perdomo, Polina Porras, and Irena Romendik (*core members)
Paula Court, Shige Moriya
A work-in-progress presentation for HERE RAW / Resident Artist Works
LEIMAY work and programs are supported, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts, the City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Howard Gilman Foundation, Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Dance/NYC, Indie Space, and Café Royal Cultural Foundation, and many generous contributions from individual donors.
Sound from A Meal Work in Progress 2020 by Thea Little, Jeremy D. Slater, and Drew Weinstein
Additional Costume and Scenic Support by Masanori Asahara, Krystel Copper, Stephen Crawford, Mar Galeano, Andrea Jones, and Hector Porras
Additional General Support by Sophie Holmes and Brandon Perdomo
Storytelling Recipe Circle & Bookbinding Workshop
LEIMAY Ensemble Members Brandon Perdomo and Irena Romendik
Storytelling Facilitators Brandon Perdomo and Ximena Garnica
Bookbinding Facilitator Irena Romendik
Reconnecting with the Land
Guest Speakers: Saada Amadu, Michelle Jackson, and Qiana Mickie
Facilitator: Ximena Garnica
Cultivating Home: Mapping Ourselves Through Food and Ecology
Guest Artist: Sawdayah Brownlee
Performance Support by LEIMAY Ensemble Members Masanori Asahara and Krystel Copper