In an effort toward financial sustainability for our LEIMAY artists to continue sharing our work with our communities, The Ensemble's Fund is an ongoing fundraiser for the salaries of the Core Members of the LEIMAY Ensemble.

Donate now to sponsor a member of the LEIMAY Ensemble!

The LEIMAY Ensemble is a group of national and international dancers who create body-centered works around the principle of LUDUS, a practice that explores methods to physically condition the body and develop a sensitivity to the “in-between space.” 

Founded in 2012 by Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya the LEIMAY Ensemble took form through the creation of the Becoming Series pentalogy, of which three parts have been created: Becoming Corpus, borders, and Frantic Beauty (Brooklyn Academy of Music, 2013-2017). Most recently, their public art work Correspondences (2020) was presented at Astor Place plaza. The group holds a regular practice at their studio in Brooklyn where they engage in the creation of new work as well as teaching, training, research, and distillation of years of direct transmission of embodied knowledge by Japanese Butoh dance pioneers, Noguchi Taiso practitioners, and Physical Theater innovators. With the LEIMAY Ensemble, Ximena and Shige create highly crafted performances that foster questions of being, perception, interdependency and coexistence. Their work creates experiences to embody knowledge and to ask questions, which are further explored less abstractly in the social realm through conversations between audiences and local communities, and via educational intergenerational workshops through community partners. 

The cost of a full week of work for each Ensemble member is $600

The cost of a  four hour work session for each Ensemble member is $60 

This Fund will support (4) core Ensemble members: Masanori Asahara, Krystel Copper,  Mar Galeano, and Andrea Jones.

This Fund is overseen collectively by all the LEIMAY Ensemble members and will be distributed proportionally among each other according to their work.