special 25th anniversary celebration season archives All of MR's events and activities held from July 2003 - June 2004 were a part of our Special 25th Anniversary Celebration Season. Several events also took place in Fall 2004. The following asterisked events of the 25th Anniverary Season were funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. movement research at the judson church and studies projects 9/22/03 SEASON OPENER:  Manuel Pelmus (Bucharest) Jeremy Nelson Juliette Mapp 9/29/03 MRX STUDIES PROJECT: RUSSIAN ARTISTS Saira Blanche Iguana Dance Theater Kannon Dance Performance Duo duWa Dance (Slovakia) 11/3/03 STUDIES PROJECT: MINIMALISM AND ITS DIS(CONTENTS) Ursula Eagly & Eleanor Dubinsky Sigal Bergman David Neumann Les Freres Corbusier A panel discussion will follow with the artists and invited panelists. Minimalism, always one to create divergent reactions in viewers, is the jumping off point for the evening's performances and discussion. This Studies Project examines the interest and disfavor in minimalism as an aesthetic in contemporary dance. We will look at how choreographers have used this aesthetic as inspiration, an oppositional point of view and a tool for creating their own compositional rules and theatrical practices. In discussion we will also examine its historical development, (mis)perceptions, and the relationship between minimalism in dance to that of minimalism in music and the visual arts. Curated by Trajal Harrell. 11/17/03 Daniel Lepkoff David Hurwith 12/1/03 Jennifer Monson Crowd: Anna Azrieli, Abby Crain, Samuael Topiary 12/8/03 Nami Yamamoto Clarinda Mac Low *1/5/04    MELT WINTER FACULTY Chris Aiken Gwen Welliver *1/12/04  MELT WINTER FACULTY: Vicky Shick Neil Greenberg Ishmael Houston-Jones *1/26/04  Mark Lorimer & Chrysa Parkinson Pedro Osorio *2/9/04 STUDIES PROJECT: Beauty Deborah Hay Deborah Hay's solo, Beauty, asks the question, “Can a formal and stimulating adherence to a prescribed set of hypothetical conditions be seen as choreography if there is not a single learned movement requirement?" The performance will be followed by a panel discussion with the artist, performers and audience. *3/1/04   Renee Archibald & Daryl Owens Jeremy Wade Jennifer Monson, Guy Yarden & special guest David Zambrano (Nederlands) *3/22/04 Jennifer Miller Linda Austin Scott Heron *3/29/04 Anika Tromholt Kristensen Lisa Kraus *12/8/2004 STUDIES PROJECT: Outside in the City: Reframing the Kinetic Experience of the Urban Environment Moderated by: Jennifer Monson and Gillian Lipton Panelists: Simone Forti Marisela Lagrave Alejandra Martorell Yves Musard This Studies Project brings together four artists who have engaged the urban environment through dance. We'll discuss the ways that each artist uses teh context of city as material and metaphor for their work and how the moving body, in particular, cna incorporate, appropriate, interpret and reframe the ecology, geography and geometry of the city. workshops *2/16-20/2004 and 2/23-27/2004 DEBORAH HAY: EXPERIMENTALISM $ 200, 2-week workshop, M-F 10am-12pm Panetta Movement Center, 214 W. 29th St, #1001 Experimentalism: By asking really big questions, ones that make answers seem dilettantish, we set in motion our bodies as laboratories. Here is where learning without thinking becomes possible. A set of conditions, which could be called the experiment, with materials such as time, space, and real and/or imagined feedback, collectively and individually guides each dancer. We will use the choreographic structure that engaged the dancers in The Match, a quartet that will be performed at Danspace Project, Feb. 5 - 8, 2004, as the form for our experiments. *3/1-5/2004 DAVID ZAMBRANO: FLYING-LOW INTENSIVE WORKSHOP M-F   M-Th 10am-12pm, F 9-11am $110 Movement Research at Eden's Expressway This workshop developed by David Zambrano focuses mainly on the dancer's relationship with the floor (earth, ground). The workshop utilizes simple movement patterns that involve breathing, speed, and the releasing of energy through the body, in order to activate the relationship between center and joints. Moving in and out of the ground more efficiently by maintaining the state of being centered. *11/29/2004 - 12/3/2004 SIMONE FORTI: LOGOMOTION (Monday-Friday), 4-7pm, Eden's Expressway, $125 We naturally weave together body language and the spoken word in order to understand and to communicate. In this dance/narrative workshop, we will cultivate this poetic, synergistic process. The work will include a warm-up practice to awaken our kinetic juices and mindfulness, and timed writings to put us in touch with our wild thoughts and observations. We will focus on improvisation, including exercises for perceptual and compositional awareness and for developing a natural and intuitive flow between our moving and our speaking, with surprise and delight. performances 12/2/2003 Kenneth King with Francis Alenikoff, in collaboration with Danspace Project & The Poetry Project In conjunction with the launch of his new book, Writing in Motion: Body--Language--Technology (Wesleyan University Press), Kenneth King initiated a performance/reading event of solos that reprise character/voice text pieces. The evening combined writing, poetry, and dance in a crossover capacity -- movement as information. King was joined by guest performer Frances Alenikoff performing two somewhat shifting and overlapping dance texting solos, synergetically. WORD RAID-impossible tongue-twisters for e.e. cummings, which involves continuously challenging dancing while performing multiple voices and accents, completed the evening. Tues., Dec. 2, 2003, at 8:30 PM  $12 at St. Mark's Church 12/5/2003: IMPROVISATION MINI-FESTIVAL 2003 Chris Aiken Ralph Lemon Astrud Angarita Osmany Tellez and 12/7/2003:IMPROVISATION MINI-FESTIVAL 2003 Ray Chung Frey Faust Chris Aiken, Ray Chung, KJ Holmes and Sondra Loring These two evenings bring together internationally celebrated improvisers and emerging performers in solo, duet and group improvisations, where consummate skill and vulnerability encounter the wild unpredictability of the moment. Location: Danspace Project 131 East 10th St. at 2nd Ave. at St. Mark's Church. 8:30pm. Admission: $12 Reservations: www.danspaceproject.org, 212-674-8194 *5/14/2004:25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION Judson Dance Theater Reconstruction by: Yvonne Rainer Performances by: Steve Paxton David Gordon with Valda Setterfield Ralph Lemon Julie Atlas Muz Ann Liv Young MC: Jennifer Miller of Circus Amok at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics, Williamsburg *12/5/2004: SUNDAY NIGHT SPECIAL (part of MR Festival 2004: Improvisation is Hard) Simone Forti performance journal *SPRING 2004: SPECIAL 25TH ANNIVERSARY DOUBLE ISSUE #27/28- Then and Now Guest Editor: Clarinda Mac Low Editorial Assistants: Arturo Vidich, Eleanor Dubinsky *Asterisked events of the 25th Anniverary Season were funded, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts.