Past Event

OUTSIGHT Featuring LEIMAY Fellows and Guest Artists at Dorothy Strelsin Memorial Community Garden

OUTSIGHT is a performance series presented by LEIMAY in partnership with the New York Restoration Project. It features public performances by international and local artists working within areas of dance, theater, performance art and butoh curated by LEIMAY Artistic Directors Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya and set within one of NYRP’s community gardens. 

 

Terrain 中央山脈 (animals only) 

Performer and Costume Designer: Ching-I Chang 

中央山脈 (Central Mountain Range) is the spinal mountain range in Taiwan. In it, dwells many rare and precious animals. The piece conjures those special beings in the city-scape. 

Made in Taiwan, active in America and quiet places. MFA. She has a deep love for dance and nurturing harmony. She has danced for Susan Marshall, Gesel Mason, Punchdrunk, and many brilliant artists. She was an original cast member of Sleep No More NYC; as well as a rehearsal director of SNM Shanghai. Most recently, she has toured with ANIKAYA to Palestine and African countries. She has bathed in contact improvisation, meditation and yoga since 2005 with occasional teaching and sharing with others. In her free time, she practices calligraphy, plays with voices, and makes bad arts. And she loves bananas. 

 

And Now This 

Performers and Choreographers: Emily LaRochelle and Sarazina Joy Stein 

Music by: Kevin Diesel, Felix Da Housecat, CJ Burnett, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Shy Layers 

We present our explorations of queer joy in the form of a post-modern dance duet between two dance and life partners. We aim to create a display of dance, glitter, and magic, but with an ever-present hint that there is more going on than just the glam and color. We intend to then strip away the flashiness, giving the audience the impression of looking into the fishbowl of our relationship, and exposing the performers’ vulnerabilities in not wearing “characters.” We hope to present our relationship and ourselves in an honest and open way that audiences can identify with.  

Emily LaRochelle and Sarazina Joy Stein are NYC-based dancers who met at Bates Dance Festival summer of 2017 and have been collaborating ever since. They’ve performed their work at PSNY, Triskelion Arts, Theater for the New City, Wild Project, TADA, New Dance Alliance, HONK! Open Streets, and in community gardens. The two have performed with Žilvinas Jonušas, Mindy Toro, and Kathleen Clark. They curated and performed an evening of dance and music at Spoke the Hub with Toro and Clark. They’re also in the Brazilian samba reggae-style drumline, Fogo Azul, and work as freelance theater electricians. 

 

IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… 

Performers: Hannah Wagner (Dancer and Choreographer), Joey Rosin (Saxophone and Composition) 

IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… was inspired by trying to understand a broad range of interpersonal relationships through a physics concept; the arrow of time. The arrow of time describes the perceived unidirectionality of time and how all material is moving toward an increasingly disorderly state. Relationships seem to adhere to this principle of imminent entropy. We are bound to loss just as we are bound to time; but the very human parts we hold on to seem to circumvent time’s arrow. While people inevitably come in and out of our lives, the imprint they leave is enduring; pointing to the central question of this work, are we truly tied to the arrow of time? 

Hannah Wagner, a dancer, and Joey Rosin, a musician, began collaborating in 2022. Their first work IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… is a duet between dancer and solo saxophonist that explores how our shared experiences, feelings, and relationships transcend time. They premiered IN EACH PASSING MOMENT… at the Perpetuum Mobile Dance Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Hannah and Joey have continued to work together and are currently assembling a new show that expands their original vision of their piece.