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A Meal
by Ximena Garnica & Shige Moriya with the LEIMAY Ensemble & Guests
September 17-20, 2026 at 7 Stages
A multi-sensorial live performance: part ritual, part celebration, part installation, and part shared cooking experience by critically acclaimed multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya. Produced by LEIMAY, A Meal explores our deep connection with food—where it comes from, what we eat, and who we share it with.
This immersive experience takes you through a series of vignettes where you’ll partake in the act of cooking and eating together, witness performances by mythological creatures, and encounter offering songs and evocative sound/video movement installations. The layered work features evocative images and dances, resonating with our post-industrial relationship with food and the Japanese and Colombian roots of the co-creators.
For A Meal, Ximena and Shige bring together new and long-time collaborators to their LEIMAY Ensemble, alongside guest performers, composers, and vocalists. These include Masanori Asahara, Krystal Copper, Akane Little, Synead Cidney Nichols and Drew Sensue-Weinstein. Join us for a memorable journey that celebrates food, culture, and community.
LEIMAY is an organization founded by Shige Moriya from Japan in 1996, and Ximena Garnica from Colombia joined in 2001. Since then, it has been led by immigrant artists from the Global Majority. It serves as a dynamic platform for artists to experiment, innovate, perform, and exhibit their movement-based interdisciplinary work. LEIMAY currently carries out activities in New York City and Bogotá, Colombia, where it has been legally established and is directed by Ximena Garnica. The organization and the dancers who are part of it collaborate in community pedagogy processes in New York, Bogotá, and different regions of Colombia; they offer classes, workshops, and artistic labs open to the public, foster exchanges of knowledge around artistic practice and socio-environmental causes, and collaborate with guest artists in workshops, as well as in the creation, production, and circulation of tangible and intangible artistic works in different public and private cultural spaces, with themes that question existence and the interrelationship between human beings and non-human beings.
Their collaborations manifest in live performances, photography, sculptures, video, lighting, and mixed-media installation art, as well as publications, research, and training projects. Their work is related to space, the body, materialities, and time; and exists in different domains, from proscenium settings, museums, and galleries to open-air public spaces. Their works reflect on questions of being, perception, interdependence, and coexistence.
