Andrea Jones Lab

Led by Andrea Jones, LEIMAY Ensemble Senior Member, this LEIMAY LUDUS Lab will be conducted as part of Andrea’ Masters of Divinity Final Project for Union Theological Seminary.

This LEIMAY LUDUS Lab offers body conditioning as well as guided physical explorations. The practice seeks to expand embodied and sensorial consciousness through enabling multiple realms of perception. It utilizes improvisation as a means of personal exploration. Each dancer’s potential is cultivated to develop a unique movement language rooted in the body’s materiality and transformation as encountered through listening to the rhythms and textures of the non-human.

LEIMAY LUDUS seeks to stimulate imagination, enrich creativity, and expand notions of body, space, and time by challenging euro-centric dance and performance training frameworks.

LEIMAY LUDUS is based on principles developed by LEIMAY’s Artistic Co-Director Ximena Garnica in collaboration with the LEIMAY Ensemble through nearly two decades of study of Butoh, Noguchi Taiso, and Experimental Theater.

As this Lab is part of an academic research project a consent form is required for participation.