Just Added: Workshop with Anna Halprin at Judson Church!

Movement Research and Danspace Project are thrilled to present this unbelievable opportunity. Anna Halprin will teach a one day only workshop on March 13, 10am-5pm, at Judson Memorial Church. Register before March 1 and pay only $125 (after March 1 $150).  We will post more information very soon, including a full description from Anna. Space is limited and we know there will be a huge demand, so please register now (and save yourself some money!).

If you have questions contact Rebecca at info@movementresearch.org or (212) 598-0551 x261.

Click here to register

Thank you Danspace Project and Judson Church for being a part of this event with us!

  • February 5th, 2010
  • mrstaff

The Week Ahead. February 8-14, 2010.

This Week at Movement Research… Judson and classes!

laurie-berg-bessie-mcdonough-thayer-by-ian-douglas

Monday February 8. Movement Research at the Judson Church.
8pm. Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South.
Featuring works by Rachel Bernsen, Kristi Spessard, and Dry Earth**
** Movement Research Artist-in-Residence 2008

Wednesday February 10. NO Open Performance.
Open Performance will resume February 24.

Classes this Week.
Join us for classes with faculty: Gwen Welliver, Raquel Cavalcanti, K.J. Holmes, Jen Abrams, Irene Dowd, Karl Leroy Anderson, Iréne Hultman, and Barbara Mahler.
Upcoming.
March. Date and Time TBA.
Studies Project: Teaching Downtown Dance / Teaching Dance Downtown
Initiated by Jmy Leary
This roundtable discussion explores the geography of downtown dance over the past half-century, from the perspective of both the teachers and the students. What was taught, how was it taught, who were the teachers and who took class?

photo: Laurie Berg & Bessie McDonough Thayer by Ian Douglas

Appropriating a Past that is still in the Present?

I’m staying with a woman here in London who is a professor of drama at Queen Mary, where they have a rad department and “drama” actually means performance art.  She told me today that a group of her graduate students have formed a contact improv group.  They feel that what they are doing isn’t necessarily the form itself, but an appropriation of the form.  They are working with a certain nostalgia about its origination.

I don’t know, I thought this sounded interesting, and I’m curious about what this looks/feels like in comparison with present contact.  I’m going to try to go while I’m here…

Jillian Peña, 2009 MR artist-in-residence, jillianpena.com, i love you

  • February 4th, 2010
  • Jillian Peña

FREE workshop this sunday. february 7.

Don’t miss this FREE workshop!!

Karl Cronin
Sunday February 7
2:00 pm-6:00 pm   FREE
location: Arch at Washington Square Park
email info@movementresearch to register or call 212.598.0551

Movement Memory
This workshop will explore how personal physical histories are stored and communicated. Focus will be given to creating ritualized practices that encourage participants to observe and reflect upon their somatic sensations in relation to specific environments and situations. This workshop is geared towards movers looking to gain deeper movement clarity and a fuller performance presence. We will use active imagination to guide our remembrance of specific environments, and use this information to enhance our performance. Workshop Objectives: •Develop your ability to record and retrieve sensory and kinetic information from your environment •Learn how the mind and body process and store sensory and kinetic information? •Practice movement rituals that will heighten you ability to recall sensory information

Where am I and why am I here?

Hi hi everyone! So when asked which month I wanted to blog at MR, I chose this month of February because I knew I’d be back in London for a bit, which would give me the time and space to reflect. I thought it would be particularly interesting given my relationship to the dance community here, which is NO relationship.

When I first moved here, fall 2007, to start my PhD at Goldsmiths, I was visiting friends in Brussels and was out to dinner with a couple of PARTS faculty. I asked them about dance in London—if they knew people whose work I should see, or classes I should go to, etc. They both laughed, exchanged glances with each other, then turned back to me, “London!!! Why are you there? No, we don’t know anyone there.”

So although I tend to ignore dance while I’m here (other than in my studio and in my dreams), I’m curious to look at this issue and see where it comes from. Is it just snobbery, or is it warranted? What are the differences in the London and the New York dance community? Why is my work in one and not the other?

Jillian Peña, 2009 MR artist-in-residence, jillianpena.com, i love you

  • February 2nd, 2010
  • Jillian Peña

The Week Ahead. February 1-7, 2010.

Monday February 1. Movement Research at the Judson Church.
8pm. Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South.
Featuring works by Launch Movement Experiment, Tina Croll, and Katie Workum.

debra-wanner-by-ian-douglas

Wednesday February 3. NO Open Performance.
Open Performance will resume February 24.

Classes this Week.
Join us for classes with faculty: Jen Abrams, Irene Dowd, Gwen Welliver, Raquel Cavalcanti, K.J. Holmes, Iréne Hultman, and Barbara Mahler.

Other News
Movement Research Performance Journal #36 is HERE, with cover artist Hahn Rowe. Articles featuring Big Art Group, CLASSCLASSCLASS, and Penny Arcade. Interviews with William Forsythe, Julie Tolentino, Sally Silvers. Also featuring a special Merce Cunningham Portfolio… and more! Subscribe online NOW!

photo: Debra Wanner by Ian Douglas

february

as the january blogger, i am now no longer officially blogging.  i am incomplete in my writings as not having had the tool to spool out words.  have thoughts about interrelations between theater/dance/spirit/body that have stayed swirling in my brain and now have thinned out a bit.  i shall get lost in these tendrils and see what appears.

for now, i am gone from here and wish you all at movement research continued searching and meanings in the MR living body.

with love, k.j.

  • February 1st, 2010
  • K.J. Holmes
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can’t see the forest for the theater

There is a forest.  I enter the forest as it is in front of me, my path has led me here.  I didn’t expect it, or maybe I suspected this would happen and I have to go through it to get to where I have intended to go.  I forage my way, I forge my way, I find my way, I forest, I tree (at times) and at other (times) I am really just trying to get to where I think I need to go. I will find a path even if I have to make it. Maybe I stuff a few pine cones in my pockets and look up at the sky up there blue between high branches.  I really don’ t have time to lie down on mossy green under tree, but alright, for a moment, but I don’t want to get lost in time as I have somewhere to go.  I have to make something and the forest is just a way to get there.  I could have taken the car, I suppose, and rode along the path that has already been made, but I want to feel my body through my feet taking my eyes along for the ride, all my senses absorbing, walking, dodging low branches, stopping for wild animal sounds (oh, a squirrel) and see slants of sun.  But I do have to get to the other side, so the forest is just a way through to the other side where the theater waits.

There is a forest.  I know it is there and I cannot wait to get there.  I know that the forest is a place I can enter and wander in for the sake of wandering.  I can spend an enormous amount of time inside a slant of light and feel it leave me, rather than me it.  I become contiguous with it, roots branches underground - branches roots in the sky.  Sentences fail, sometimes only   w o r d          one of them         for a long time           or       &    a color                    that smell reminds me of being 7                          i am that witch of which i wanted to be but was afraid of                   fear insists insinuates                    loss                                   living leaving lovinglalalalalalalala                         my breath

the wind                                                        i am here

3 dimensional                                         walkwalkwalk                                                                   i get

lost

entity or function

being lost

getting lost

take me, i only come this far

oh, the forest is the theater i will be on stage again and again

  • January 30th, 2010
  • K.J. Holmes

Again at the library.  But I won’t spend the little bit of time I have to complain about hard drive breakdowns in computer.  There is a strange sense of space in my home to not be chained to my laptop, and also frustration as to not being able to work at home, to follow my thoughts, to get lost.

I went to a panel discussion last Saturday at BAC, sponsored by Danspace Project.  The panelists  were the artists curated by Ralph Lemon in hisi get lost series.  Each artists had some time to talk about their work and how they get lost in their work.

I found (no pun intended, or maybe, yes…) myself wanting to get lost more in the discussion.  Read the rest of this entry »

  • January 29th, 2010
  • K.J. Holmes

Video clips from Movement Research at the Judson Church, 1.25.2010

Video clips from Movement Research at the Judson Church, January 25, 2010.
Featuring works by Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Jenny MaryTai Liu, and Kate Watson-Wallace.

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