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Floating Point Waves • Shige Moriya & Ximena Garnica
Show Description
An installation of strings and water, real-time video projection, and live electronic music converge to create a stunning, seamless landscape in which a single Butoh artist moves. An installation of strings, water, dance, video, and live electronic music converge in a stunning, seamless landscape. Floating Point Waves immerses the audience in a mesmerizing space where the human body and basic elements fuse. Every motion of the dance is reflected in the surface of water. The waves alter and shape the light and projected image, evoking the interconnected nature of our world. By heightening this perception and emphasizing the significance of its weight in our body, the dance emerges as an interplay between the body and gravity. Projected video functions as visual music. Our only standing point becomes instability itself.
Co-created by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, artistic directors of LEIMAY, CAVE and The New York Butoh Festival, in collaboration with Jeremy Slater
Floating Point Waves, is a LEIMAY
dance and space experience.
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Artist Bio
Ximena Garnica was born in Bogota, Colombia. She is active as a producer, curator, director, choreographer and installation artist. Ms. Garnica was a recipient of the prestigious Van Lier Fellowship for young Hispanic directors in NY; she, and Leimay have received support from: The Urban Artist Initiative (UAI/NYC), Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, The Asian American Arts Alliance, the Japan Foundation, the New Hazlett Theater and the National Museum of Dance. Her work has been presented in Colombia, Japan, Mexico, France, Spain, Netherlands and the US. Garnica’s performance explorations have led her to travels in Poland, Denmark and Japan. She holds a BA in theater from the City College of New York and graduated from the Akira Kasai Tenshikan Dance Institute in Tokyo. She lives in Brooklyn and leads ongoing training in dance and performance at CAVE.
Shige Moriya was born in Kyoto, Japan. He works as an installation and video artist, curator and director. His work has been presented in Japan, Finland, Vietnam, Germany and the US. Shige Moriya has been recognized with the Armani Designer Award; he has received fellowships from the Ford Foundation and the Puffin Foundation; and residencies from the Watermill Center. Together with Ximena Garnica he is the artistic director of CAVE and The New York Butoh Festival.
Artist Statement
Floating Point Waves explores the unstable and interconnected nature of our world. It seems like humans want to be stable all the time. But the world goes by, changing continuously. The world transforms until our standing point is instability, and we are but an interconnected floating point.
Leimay is an interdisciplinary company-project and laboratory of contemporary performance founded by Ximena Garnica. The company is housed at CAVE, a workspace and center devoted to the advance of performance and installation art located in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York. Leimay synthesizes, through the body, and other visual and performing arts, performance experiences designed to sharpen the senses both for the artists who engage in the creative process and for the audience who relates to the performances. Transformation is approached as an aesthetic; in the sense that, the body at times is dancer, actor or object and the space at times is body, environment or object. Performance is explored as a process of constantly becoming.
Project Feed
Dance Panel Discussion: “The Body Below” Culturemart 2011
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