LEIMAY Archive Coordinator Brandon Perdomo and LEIMAY’s Artistic Director Ximena Garnica will talk about the state and the current plans of the archive.

Dr. Tanya Calamoneri joining via Zoom to introduce her book “Butoh America: Butoh Dance in the United States and Mexico from 1970 to the early 2000s” [Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies] [2022] and her chapter “Chapter: Gen X Butoh,” which features the work of multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya and uses materials from the LEIMAY archive.

This presentation is part of a day of screenings, a book talk, and a movement class at The CUNY Grad Center, that offers a glimpse into the world of New York’s multidisciplinary company LEIMAY, and their ongoing work to create a public archive.

In Person Event