“Through the example of LEIMAY’s Becoming Series stillness is theorized as revolt. It is a performative act – a radical form of action confronting the viewer as a body with agency.”
“LEIMAY’s Becoming Series manifest political commitment established in its reflexive dynamics that empower subjects in their stillness.”
“…the audience is absorbed by and enveloped in the enduring, exquisite, and grotesque stillness – we witness the body trigger will, memory, history, anxiety, and responsibility. The audience is invited to “become” together…”
“Through the mixture of voices, sounds, light textures, and choreography of high physicality, “Borders” seeks to shrink the gap between space and time in order to expose the ambivalence in the way borders are created, perceived, traversed, and dismantled…”
…”one could easily drift into meditative states of sublime stillness suspended in time/space.”
“The dancers are abstracted beyond their social existence, bodies stretched out in ambiguity, defying definitions; they perform both the power of their transformation and the power to let the body transform, where the body seems to disappear to reveal the space itself. Becomings achieves this aesthetically critical potential in the moments that propel the audience to confront our own attentive and affective limits. Stillness in LEIMAY’s Becomings allows critical and creative capacity for ethical encounters that emerge across space and time.”
“The aesthetic form and the power of Becomings creates conditions to sense, connect, pause, decelerate.”
“Garnica and Moriya demonstrate their ceaseless commitment to generating spaces where their dancers/choreographers and their audience are free to explore alternative ways of being and relating in the world. LEIMAY dancers’ physicality seems effortless; they perform deeply felt space of undisciplined movements and intense gestures to awaken us to what lurks beneath; we all tumble together in a limitless fall into the depths of our subconscious/universe.”
“Becomings offers the language of the human body, the movements and forms in all of their exquisite density.”
“Profound and absorbing through the intensity of their specter…”
“Becomings, thus, offers a critical choreographed space for the willful quietness and slowness to stress the importance of bending bodies and histories; to reinforce the importance of politicizing and archiving the history of the bodies that resist, bodies that slowdown, complicate, decrease production, increase revolt.”