Denisa Musilova

Is a performer and choreographer; a 2023 Baryshnikov Arts Center Artist-in-Residence, a 2019 New Dance Alliance LiftOff Resident Artist, and a recipient of the 2022 Watermill Center Alumni Mini-Retreat, having performed at the Watermill Gala in 2019. Her newest work, POOL, was commissioned and presented at the Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival and the Voices International Theater Festival in June 2023. She has also presented works at The Tank, Dixon Place, La MaMa, NY Butoh Festival, 92nd Street Y, LATEA Theater, Next@Graham, Czech Center NY, Triskelion Arts, SOAK Festival, Venuše ve Švehlovce Theater, and Theater Akropolis Prague. As a performer, … Continued

Thea Little  

Born and bred in NYC, is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, musician, composer, and director. She performs solo works that are influenced by performance art and music, and she choreographs collaborative group dance-theater works. She has presented her music compositions and choreography throughout the United States, Belgium, Austria, France, and England. Thea has been composing music since she was 5 years old and she has made music for her own choreography as well as for Joya Powell: Movement of the People Dance Company, Gerard and Kelly, Karen Harvey Dances, and LEIMAY. In 2005 Thea was Music Director to Shen Wei Dance … Continued

Derek DiMartini

Derek DiMartini hails from Oakland, California.  He likes to view dance as an extension of his passion as a creator and a performer.  He has been an ensemble member in since January 2015, and has been teaching The Leimay Ludus Community Class since Summer 2016.  In New York, his work has been performed with Mare Nostrum Elements, as well as at LEIMAY SOAK, WAXworks and Marie-Christine Giordano Salon. He has also worked with SumBones Collective and has had the opportunity to perform the works of Merce Cunningham, Ohad Naharin, Akram Khan, Reggie Wilson, and Trisha Brown.  Derek graduated from Yale … Continued

Georgia b. Smith

Georgia b. Smith is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily creates sculptural and dance/performance art work. Georgia b. was a member of the LEIMAY ensemble as they premiered “Borders” at BAM Fisher in 2016.  She has a MFA from the University of Michigan where she launched her series Plastic Abodes and Cavernous Bodies. Georgia b. was the artistic director of  NOT for reTALE which showed work at CAVE. Georgia’s work in NOT for reTALE exemplifies how her work incorporates sculpture as an extension of the bodies on stage.

Drew Sensue-Weinstein

Drew is a multidisciplinary theatre and sound artist, serving as one of three composers for A MEAL. His work often involves the integration of electroacoustic sound with music and live performance to create a heightened sensory experience for audiences. Drew co-created and directed SYNTHESIS, performed as part of LEIMAY’S SOAK 2017; he also produced LEIMAY’s FRANTIC BEAUTY (BAM) and KALAVINKA, LEIMAY’s gala event honoring Meredith Monk. As a designer and composer, Drew’s work has been experienced in New York at HERE, The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival, and Abrons Arts Center and in DC at Anacostia Arts Center (DC), … Continued

Alvaro Restrepo

Alvaro Restrepo

Alvaro Restrepo (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at Colegio del Cuerpo.

Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson (Honorary Board Member) is the Theater Director at the Watermill Center.

Annie Wang

The work that I am exploring is a collaboration with the interdisciplinary visual artist Naomi Andrée Campbell. We are investigating movements, imagery, and histories of protective animals in our respective Chinese and Japanese backgrounds. What does incubation mean to you? A protected place to grow and develop. Where all experimentation (silly, fruitful, dead-end, dada, you name it) is possible.

Sylvain Souklaye

I will explore the friction between the artist as a mediator and the audience as the medium in the context of live documentation. What does incubation mean to you? For me, incubation is the phase/moment of introspection and exploration before an epiphany or catharsis.

Tamara Leigh

Nikki Theroux, Tamara Leigh, Kimie Parker, Hillary Bonhomme. Wldflwr Dance Collective, directed by Tamara Leigh and Nikki Theroux, works towards multidisciplinary and inclusive art-making. Wldflwr has been in residence at Dragon’s Egg in CT, beginning the creative process for “the last to bloom,” the collective’s debut evening-length which premiered at The Tank NYC in 2021. In 2022, they were Artists in Residence at MOtiVE Brooklyn where they began creating “Permanence.”

Nadia Khayrallah

I’m working with my musical collaborator Alia Scheirman to develop performance environments that allow for a live and mechanically visible integration of movement and sound, making use of everyday objects, looping technology, live drawings, and more. What does incubation mean to you? I can be very literal sometimes, so I think about incubating an idea like an egg. Sometimes, you’re not entirely sure what’s gonna hatch from it and when – nor can you really control these things – but you decide to give it your time, care, and energy regardless, dedicating yourself to whatever beautiful or monstrous being might … Continued

Fadl Fakhouri

The work I will be focusing on in my time at the incubation program will consist of a video project in collaboration with Kyle Carrero Lopez. I will be performing movements, dances, and gestures with Kyle writing poetry in response. It will be a conversion of poetry in dance to poetry in word. What does the unknown mean to you? The unknown is both freedom and what we anticipate to be dangerous. I think it stems from the fact that too much freedom can be scary, even deadly.

Justin Cabrillos

I am dancing with emotions and trance states, hovering within the intensities they share. I will be premiering a trio at the Chocolate Factory Theater this April 2022 and am also working on a solo premiering in 2023. What does the unknown mean to you? The unknown is space for alternative constellations of feeling.

Tyrone Bevans

Tyrone is deepening a practice geared towards emotional intelligence through the use of the queer diasporic dance form known as punking. What does incubation mean to you? A time for space, play, deep listening and development.

Irena Romendik

Was born in USSR. She studied Social Realism Painting in Kiev, Ukraine, obtained a BFA in Computer Graphics and Interactive Multimedia at Pratt and a Master of Interactive Telecommunications – NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, ITP. Irena has worked as artist in a diverse array of fields, starting from Archaeology, Theater, Children’s books illustrations, Animation, Video, Interactive Multimedia, Game Design, and Creative Code.  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 … Continued

Jeremy Slater

Jeremy Slater is an artist born in Wallingford, England who now lives in Williamsburg Brooklyn. He is a sound artist essentially, but also works with video and sound in performance and installation settings doing interactive and ambient-reactive installations. Otherwise known as ( ) Jeremy Slater uses his laptop computer to create a variety of sound, image, and interactive work. He was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has exhibited and performed nationally and internationally. www.jeremyslater.net.

Andrea Jones

Andrea Jones (she/her) is a dancer, healthcare chaplain, and yoga instructor. Since 2012, she has been a member of LEIMAY, a multidisciplinary performance ensemble based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Additionally, she is a teacher and active contributor to the development of LEIMAY’s underlying methodology, LUDUS. Andrea is a graduate of Union Theological Seminary where she received a Masters of Divinity with a concentration in Buddhism and Interreligious Engagement. She works as a spiritual care provider at Mount Sinai Downtown within the disciplines of oncology and palliative care. A student of yoga for over 20 years, Andrea is also a certified yoga … Continued

Masanori Asahara

Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works and has performed with Janis Brenner & Dancers, Butoh Rockettes, Company So-GoNo, da:zain, Duhon Dance, Isabel Gotzkowsky and Friends, Ko-Ryo Dance Theater,Wendy Osserman Dance Company, Purring Tigers, Sasha Soreff Dance Company, Sticky Mango Movement, Nathan Trice – Rituals,Vissi Dance Theater,Yukio Waguri and Kota Yamazaki / Fluid hug-hug.Masanori Asahara, a native of Japan, has been living and dancing in New York since 2004. He studied at DANCE NEW AMSTERDAM. He creates his own works … Continued

Megan Kendzior

Megan Kendzior (Development Consultant) is a dance maker and arts advocate who works as a Strategic Development Consultant with a variety of artists and organizations in the dance landscape. She worked for Movement Research as the Development Manager for almost 10 years and her experience translates to helping LEIMAY build its funding and operational infrastructure.

Krystel Copper

Krystel Copper (Former Marketing Associate and LEIMAY Ensemble member) is a NYC based artist who has been a member of the LEIMAY Ensemble since 2016. She has been LEIMAY’s Marketing Associate since 2018, where she oversees content creation for the bi-weeky newsletter and interacts with all daily social media platforms. She holds a B.A. in Dance from the University of Maryland, where she graduated Cum Laude in 2010. Krystel has dramatically increased LEIMAY’s visibility over the past 5 years.

Kim Whitener

Kim Whitener

Kim Whitener (Honorary Board Member) is the Former Producing Director at the HERE Arts Center.

Kimihiro Sato

Kimihiro Sato

Kimihiro Sato (Advisory Board) is Director at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management.

Kristin Marting

Kristin Marting (Advisory Board) is the Artistic Director at HERE Arts Center.

Geneviève Maquinay

Genevieve Maquinay

Genevieve Maquinay (Advisory Board) is the co-founder of Caring for Colombia.

Elise Herget

Elise Herget

Elise Herget (Advisory Board) is the Executive Director at Watermill Center.

Bob Beswick

Robert Beswick (Advisory Board) is an Artist/Former Dancer/Real Estate Developer.

Shige Moriya

Shige Moriya (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director) is an installation and video artist, and the founder and Artistic Director of the CAVE, a multimedia performance space, gallery and artist in residence space in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY. Shige mixes live feed video with pre-edited materials and projects the images into sculpture constructed of layers of thin translucent screens. Shige invites audience and performer to enter the sculpture and discover further abstractions of a stretched two dimensional space.  Video-installation artist and curator, Shige Moriya (born in Kyoto, Japan) has been in New York since 1993. He first worked as an exhibition curator in Soho, but … Continued

Ximena Garnica

Ximena Garnica (Officer/Founder/Artistic Director), director and curator of the New York Butoh Festival and Artist in Residence at the CAVE gallery. “Once it touches, it enters. As it travels within it stirs my guts. It breaks off skin, and I soon find myself in pieces scattered in the void. With pieces still cracking, I now celebrate”. Ximena Garnica Gomez, born in Bogota, Colombia, is an actress, dancer and emerging theater director. She is Associate Director of CAVE Co-Director of CAVE ensemble and Artistic Director of LEIMAY Productions. She has trained with several butoh masters including Ko Murobushi, Yukio Waguri, Akira … Continued

Jose Rivera Jr.

José Rivera, Jr. (President)  is a Puerto Rican – American multimedia performing artist, direc- tor & choreographer based in Brooklyn, NY, merging techniques in performance, fashion, technology, visual art, and theater techniques. NYC: OF CAKE & VANITY (NYU,The PIT), Mad Forest (Radu), ACTING: the first 6 Lessons (Creature Cho- rus), Spring Awakening (Dr.VonBrausepulver), the displacement Project & Qual- ia-Gardens (LEIMAY), Emily Dickinson OUTERSPACE! (Bushwick Starr). Choreo & Direction: Bohemian Lights (LiveSource/HERE), Miami is Sinking (Dixon Place), In the Heights, Passing Strange,The Girl Who Was Plugged In, Songs for a New World. José works admin at CAVE home of LEIMAY. BFA, … Continued

Raul Zbengheci

Raul Zbengheci (he/him)  is a Romanian-American cultural organizer, producer, and administrator. If contemporary art and culture functions today as an archipelago composed of small islands, Raul situates himself in the waters between the islands, following the currents and floating softly between different mediums, technologies, and influences. He specializes in producing and commissioning ambitious large scale art projects while also using his skills as a producer to support community groups fighting for social justice. Prior to joining NEW INC, Raul worked with the Whitney Museum of American Art, PERFORMA, Times Square Arts, PROTOTYPE Festival, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and more. He … Continued

Polina Porras

Polina Porras Sivolobova (Treasurer) is a visual/performing artist of Mexican and Russian descent who has worked as a promoter, fundraiser and public relations official. She has a business management degree from Univ. of Texas at El Paso and received an Entrepreneurial Certification from Queens Economic Development Corporation in 2017. Polina started on staff in 2016 and joined the Board as Secretary in 2022. As a former bookkeeper and financial associate at LEIMAY, Polina understands the organization’s ethos and structure, and is able to contribute this knowledge to the growth and future of LEIMAY.

Fusako Ohta

  Fusako Ohta (Emeritus) is philanthropist, haiku writer, tap dancer, real estate investor and former gallerist (Cast Iron Gallery/SoHo). She has been a longtime supporter of LEIMAY as Shige worked at her SoHo gallery when he first arrived from Japan. Fusako joined the Board in 2022 as the President and contributes her deep cultural alignment with the leadership and vision of the organization. She has a comprehensive awareness of the non-profit and gallery landscape, and makes social and capital contributions to the development of LEIMAY.

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Triumphant Trumpet

A trumpet is a musical instrument. It is the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments,[1] dating back to at least 1500 BC. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a “buzzing” sound that starts a standing wave vibration in the air column inside the instrument. Since the late 15th century they have primarily been constructed of brass tubing, usually bent twice into a rounded oblong shape. There are several types of trumpet. The most common is a transposing instrument pitched in B♭ with a tubing length of about 148 cm. … Continued

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Indie Music Production

The term indie rock, which comes from “independent,” describes the small and relatively low-budget labels on which it is released and the do-it-yourself attitude of the bands and artists involved. Although distribution deals are often struck with major corporate companies, these labels and the bands they host have attempted to retain their autonomy, leaving them free to explore sounds, emotions and subjects of limited appeal to large, mainstream audiences. The influences and styles of the artists have been extremely diverse, including punk, psychedelia, rock and country. The terms “alternative rock” and “indie rock” were used interchangeably in the 1980s, but … Continued

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Clubbing As Subculture

Roots of clubbing are in disco wave in 1970s, but developing begun in 1980s with evolution of DJ-ing and raves. The subculture took shape in the late 1980s and early 1990s at underground rave parties in the U.S. and London (Reynolds 1998). Numerous social changes have, however, occurred since then to transform this subculture into a mainstream movement, youth-oriented lifestyle and global activity (see Bennett 2001, Reynolds 1998; Hill 2002).From the beginning, clubbing, while it was more rave subculture, has involved mostly younger people between 16 and 25 years of age. A subculture emerged around raves, featuring an ethos of … Continued

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