Becoming

Transformation through Dance: LEIMAY LUDUS BECOMING for Dancers and Performers.Grow as a performer and creator. Stimulate your imagination, enrich your creativity, and expand your notions of body, space, and time while challenging euro-centric dance and performance training frameworks.

This LEIMAY LUDUS BECOMING offers guided physical explorations that engage with expanding states of consciousness to enable multiple realms of perception and utilizes improvisation as a means of personal exploration. Each dancer’s physical potential is cultivated to develop a unique movement language rooted in transformation.

Together we will decentralize self-centered approaches to movement and explore the possibilities of “being danced by” stead of “ I dance,” “becoming space-body” rather than occupying space. We will challenge our body’s materiality and enliven our sensorium through listening to the rhythms and textures of the non-human. And we will use impossibility as spark to enrich the ways in which we create and inhabit the world.

LEIMAY LUDUS Becoming For Dancers and Performers is based on principles developed through nearly two decades of LEIMAY’s study of Butoh, historical and cultural context will be offered throughout the cycle.