ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE
At HOME Series: LEIMAY Constellation Salon is an evening of new works in dance, theater, music, and film by members of the LEIMAY community.
WORKS:
Masanori Asahara
Melting
“Melting” explores the fluidity of movement as the body gradually dissolves into itself, symbolizing transformation and liberation. The choreography intricately interacts with the surrounding space, inviting the audience to reflect on the ever-changing nature of existence and the beauty of embracing change
Camila Barra
Body in Transit
The territory, no matter where you come from, resides within you
Krystel Copper
Love Letter
A personal reflection on love and grief through a collection of letters to loved ones never intended to be read…What if I sent this one?
Akane Little
MOMMA!
A dance theater solo work exploring codependency in the context of an Asian American mother-daughter relationship; or, a confessional love letter delivered via fetal-feral bodies, partial memory, masturbation, gore, & 80s synth pop nostalgia.
Xi Nan
“What if I lose it all..again..or?”
My project is a study in visual and social anthropology that examines movement as a rhythmic, vibrational, and adaptive language of the body. Through somatic performance, storytelling, and film, it explores how diverse bodies, including those with ambulatory disabilities, experience and express movement.
Benja Thompson with Izya Baird-Appleton
by the ocean (I Hear Your Name)
A ritualfilm for memory casting.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Masanori Asahara, born in Chiba and raised in Tokyo, is a New York City-based dance artist and a core member of LEIMAY Ensemble, the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary company directed by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. He performs, teaches, and contributes to the development of the LEIMAY Ludus practice.
Masanori has appeared at prestigious venues, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Baryshnikov Arts Center, and Jacob’s Pillow, and has collaborated with choreographer Kota Yamazaki. As a senior member of LEIMAY Ensemble, he has performed in over a dozen critically acclaimed works. He currently teaches Ludus at Sarah Lawrence College and will lead the LEIMAY Ludus Community Class this spring.
Camila Barra, a native of southern Chile, is a passionate creator and dreamer. As an arts teacher specializing in theater and jewelry artisan, she seamlessly blends artistic expression with manual craftsmanship. Inspired by nature and her cultural roots, Camila’s work is dedicated to bringing ideas to life through art, exploring emotions, stories, and forms Camila is currently a LEIMAY Space Assistant, supporting the LEIMAY operations team while cultivating a sense of care for all beings at CAVE.
Krystel Copper is a movement artist who lives here now. She is a proud daughter of immigrants from Argentina and Portugal. She has worked with many beautiful well respected artists that maybe you have heard of and sometimes she has created things too. Most of her work in the last decade has been with LEIMAY.
Her childhood dream was to join the circus, and who knows, maybe it will happen. She loves sunflowers and tie dye and painting and playing ukulele…but her favorite is performing dances. She might like to play and create with you too.
Akane Little is a Brooklyn-based dance artist approaching the body and performance as an altar-portal for transmuting energy and channeling worlds. They have been training and performing with LEIMAY since 2023.
Xi Nan is a social practice artist whose work integrates somatic performance and documentary storytelling. She delves into embodied movement as an adaptive, rhythmic, and sensory language. Rooted in interdisciplinary performance, storytelling, and visual anthropology, their practice examines the interplay of perception, coordination, and transformation in body and space. Through durational performance, documentary film, and socially engaged research, she explores themes of accessibility, adaptation, and lived experience, challenging conventional understandings of movement and presence.
A practicing queer archivist, Benja Thompson interweaves historical narratives with formal experimentation to reveal obscured truths.
