Article: “The Illumination of LEIMAY’s ‘Becoming-Corpus'”

“They offer a splendid merging/clashing of movement and light in patterns that approach and recede. Garnica and Moriya have been artistic and personal partners for 13 years. Their intimacy shows in the way that Garnica’s choreography is structured, framed, and permeated by Moriya’s lighting and Moriya’s light is populated and articulated by Garnica’s extraordinary choreography. The integration of movement and light makes Moriya’s changing visual design the eighth performer onstage.”

“The work is about the interplay of the spectators’ perception and imagination with these seven bodies gaining presence in the light and losing substance in the dark, not about tricks of illusion.”

“LEIMAY here is searching for beauty amidst the detritus of danced memory (in ways that are in concert with the turn butoh has taken in Japan).”

“The dancing was beautiful at the level of control, execution, and body language, and alternately horrific or sublime at the level of theme. It was simultaneously a dystopic universe, the end of the world, and “nothing more” than pure movement.”

“Becoming – Corpus is a model of the conjunction of visual art and physical dance theatre.”

Carol Martin, Richard Schechner, TDR (2014)