A new interdisciplinary dance performance: part-ritual, part-celebration, part-laboratory, and part-dinner. Commissioned and produced by HERE with an expected premiere in fall 2024, this multi-sensorial live performance centers on food justice and environmental ethics. The show is structured as a series of vignettes that audiences will wander through to participate in the act of eating together, witnessing embodied performance by mythological creatures, and experiencing sound/video movement installations. The team includes: Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya as directors/choreographers/designers; the LEIMAY Ensemble; as well as guest performers and composers Thea Little and Drew Weinstein. A Meal includes panels and workshops, an online activation platform, and a process-book.  Recipient of a 2023 NEFA National Dance Project grant.

Our meal will include arepas, sushi, hot pot, and mochi.

Ingredients include a variety of mushrooms, rice, tamale flour, arepa flour, quinoa, millet, sweet rice, tamari, mayonnaise, vinegar, citrus, herbs and spices.

At the fish table, we will be serving wild salmon.  At the meat table, we will be serving shabu-shabu beef.