LEIMAY
01/20/2026
1, 2 & 3. Over 300 pieces of ceramics were made by Ximena with Shige, A.V, the LEIMAY Ensemble and community members (Masanori Asahara, Izya Baird-Appleton, and many more). Every object, even those for washing the utensils and hands, was created piece by piece. You can purchase some of these pieces in our online store!
4. Ceramic spoons made during “Spoon Making Parties” with dozens of people through work exchange & the support of community members (shout out to Xi Nan!)
5. In the photo: Krystel Mazzeo
6. We had to purchase large freezers to make this sculpture, which became a profound symbol in the work
In the photo: Akane Little
7 & 8. A sculptural piece of furniture that alludes to street food carts, used in the show to cook real arepas to be shared with audiences
In the first photo: Carolina Oliveros
In the second photo: Mar Galeano
9. Wood tray designed by Shige, and Ximena fabricated by Iida Ryuichiro, became a canvas for aburi sushi cooking during the show by dancers Masanori and Akane, and backstage by chef Andres Tangarife
10. On the last scene, the audience were seated at a meticulously crafted table with ceramic tablemats and organic shapes resonating with Ximena and Shige’s Colombian and Japanese sensibilities. The audience was invited to cook Japanese Shabu Shabu, with an 8-month marinated sauce made using Shige’s family recipe
In the photo: Synead Nichols
11. A sculptural table designed by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, constructed using traditional kigumi wood joinery. The set of eight tables and benches assembles and disassembles quickly, allowing the theater to fully transform between scenes. With a minimalist Japanese sensibility, the structures function as choreographic materials—shifting between furniture, architecture, and embodied partners within A Meal
Photos by Maria Baranova, Pasha Antonov, Raphael Almoznino & Brandon Perdomo
A Meal, by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya, world premiere at HERE, 2024
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Ximena y Shige
Dúo artístico multidisciplinario que crea obras que abarcan múltiples formatos.
Sus obras reflexionan sobre el ser, la percepción, la interdependencia y la coexistencia.
Son cofundadores y directores artísticos de LEIMAY y el LEIMAY Ensemble.
Katherine Guevara
Jefa de producción de Rituales de Extinción y gestora cultural con experiencia en formulación, ejecución, y evaluación de proyectos culturales, sociales y educativos en el ámbito público y en cooperación internacional.
Valentina Peña
Asistente de dirección y Stage Manager del proyecto Rituales de Extinción. Actriz, cantante y realizadora audiovisual. Concibe su trabajo como un diálogo constante entre las disciplinas escénicas y audiovisuales.
Emilia Winschu
Coordinadora de comunicaciones y progamas en LEIMAY. Gestora cultural y productora, su trabajo se centra en promover el acceso comunitario a la cultura.
Camila Millán
Bailarina, coreógrafa, profesora productora artística. Actualmente trabaja con la compañía LEIMAY como productora en campo.
Diego Martínez
Artista escénico, se desempeña en la asistencia en producción y operaciones culturales. Busca conectar desde las artes escénicas aportando a procesos de gestión, investigación y creación.
Stanly Aguilar
Diseñador de iluminación en Rituales de Extinción.
Su mirada creativa se ha entrelazado con el teatro, donde explora la iluminación desde la sensibilidad escénica. Ha explorado la luz como elemento poético que amplifica la presencia del cuerpo y la escena.
Paula Luengas
Pintora y artista visual. Su trabajo explora las nociones del recuerdo, repetición y transitoriedad a través de procesos como la pintura, el dibujo, el grabado, la fotografía, entre otros.
Carlos Aleko Botero
Ingeniero de sonido, especializado en la optimización de sistemas de refuerzo sonoro.
Realiza el diseño y operación de los sistemas sonoros inmersivos en nuestra Danza Ópera.
LEIMAY is deeply moved by the passing of our dear Honorary Board Member—stage director, designer, visual artist, and founder of The Watermill Center— Robert Wilson.
A message from LEIMAY's Artistic Directors:
"Thank you, dear Bob...
Yesterday, on the morning of July 31, 2025, while in rehearsal, I learned that Bob had passed earlier that day. I was in the midst of making work—movement, poetry, and song filled the room. That felt right. Work held me. And I thought about how Bob always held space for work—how he embraced it, and all of us inside it.
His passing left a piercing absence and reminded me, once again, of the fragility of life. And yet, my heart is full—with gratitude, admiration, and love. The world has lost a magical being—a visionary who could conjure form, sensation, contradiction, and beauty into being. And we lost someone who believed in us.
Bob nurtured our artistic practice. He gave us space, opportunities, and wind. As immigrant artists in New York City, we weren’t part of any institutional pipeline. We had to carve our own way, path by path. We’ve always embraced multiplicity—interdisciplinary forms, cultural opposites, craft, community, the poetry of beauty—but we’ve often felt outside the frame of the NYC art scene, clearing ground with machetes where doors hadn’t opened. Bob saw us—as he so often saw artists. He welcomed Shige and me into his playground. Into his universe.
He let us play. And he allowed us to create our own universe.
Over the last 18 years, we created and incubated many LEIMAY works at The Watermill Center. He commissioned us. He took us—and our work—to Europe. We collaborated on his creations. He performed at our live-work space, CAVE. He showed up at our events. He wrote letters on our behalf. That was Bob to us—magical, generous, unpredictable, present. We connected with his New York of loft stories and underground scenes—maxing out credit cards to fund his first European tour. And also with his grand vision of prosceniums, where scale, form, and imagination pushed the boundaries of the “real.” He did a lot for many artists!
As a teenager growing up in a city shaped by one of the world’s largest international theater festivals, I first encountered Bob’s work from afar. And then, years later, in 2007, we found ourselves inside his world. I was so happy! (Except for having to make a perfectly fitted bed). We built string installations. We danced. We created sculptures and films. Shige even helped design a rooftop. The galas in the Hamptons, in New York, in Berlin—each one, a performance. Always an invitation to a dream.
Though we didn’t get to say goodbye, we had plans to visit him soon. We had hoped to tell him we had finally secured CAVE—something we dreamed of for so long—and to thank him for the wind he gave us.
Through Bob, we met patrons and artists from across generations and continents. He brought people together. Some of them are now our friends, our collaborators, our new winds. He had theater in his bones—he knew how to gather, how to set conditions for magic to emerge. With rigor. With play. With his unmistakable radar for beauty.
Thank you, dear Bob.
Now you may become the light and shadow you understood so well.
Shige loved you deeply.
Gracias, Bob. We continue here, connecting with the invisible, trusting that beauty carries ancient power and opens the way for all possible futures.
With love,
Ximena and Shige"
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