The Greek myth is rendered in LEIMAY’s performance to reflect upon the experience of absence, as with families and friends of los Desaparecidos, the ‘Disappeared Ones,’ of Colombia’s political upheavals. LEIMAY’s Antigones contribute to face the conflict between the law and conscience. Antigone takes a stand, sacrificing her life to be buried alive.
“Antigone is a wandering shadow: like the woman spirit who never received the stiff bodies of her dead. Antigone is without rest, tormented and overshadowed by the vacuum of absence, the presence of those who are no longer there; she is a reproach to society, inciting the State and its cruel laws, and to all those for whom passivity assumes the current arbitrary terror of the war.”
Antigones is an act of remembering, gathering force in silence: a body condition, which apprehends all that has perished, multifaceted and difficult to decipher.
Performance co-conceived, directed, and designed by
Shige Moriya, Ximena Garnica
Japan Society, NY Butoh Festival (Work-in-Progress), 2007
Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Ximena Garnica*
Joyce Soho (Premiere), 2008
Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Ximena Garnica*
Fundacion Gilberto Alzate Avendano, 2008
Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Ximena Garnica*
Festival de la Ciudad, 2009
Performed by the LEIMAY Ensemble:
Ximena Garnica*
Documentation Images: Dora Baroni and Yana Kraeva
Development/Funding Credit:
Produced by LEIMAY with work-in-progress performances at Japan Society.
Sponsored in part by The Association of Hispanic Arts through The Urban Artist Initiative program (UAI/NYC).
Other Credits:
Juan Merchan (Co-Direction, Co-Choreography and Additional Lighting Design), Roland Toledo (sound composition)
*Core Ensemble Member
- 2007, 2008, 2009
- Japan Society// Joyce Soho// Fundacion Gilberto Alzate Avendano// Festival de la Ciudad
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- United States (New York)// Colombia (Bogotá)// Mexico (Merida)