Hello all on this beautiful Tuesday morning. It has been a busy few weeks and the CC team has been typing at full speed to bring you words from some of the great artists that make up this community. This month we have published six interviews! We have contributions from Meg Wolfe, Juliana May, koosil-ja, Meg Stuart and Trajal Harrell on Auf den Tisch! (Performa 09) and Kathy Westwater. Each of these featured artists have been interviewed about their processes and thoughts in regards to their most recent work.
CC has also published two new projects. One involves choreographers Karen Ivy ad Colleen Leonardi. Read what these women have to say on “knowledge in dance.” The published discussion is the first of many more to come. And last, but not least What Sustains You? is a new project that asks specific artists what sustains them as artists/people as they work in ways to transform structures and relationships. This month CC interviewed Justine Lynch. Watch a short video and listen to What Sustains Justine Lynch?and her theories on money as a collaboration with energy. If you are interested in being interviewed for the What Sustains You? project or have someone(s) in mind who you’d like to hear from, let us know at cc@movementresearch.org.
This Week at Movement Research… Judson and classes! Upcoming workshops! Studies Projects!
Monday March 8. Movement Research at the Judson Church.
8pm. Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South.
Featuring works by The Body Cartography Project, Kensaku Shinohara, and Emily Coates.
Wednesday March 10. Open Performance.
8pm. DTW David R. White Studio at 219 West 19th Street.
Featuring works by Michael Freeman, Ben Van Buren, Melinda Lee, Labor Forces Dance.
Classes this Week.
Join us for classes with faculty: Olive Bieringa, Shelley Senter, K.J. Holmes, Irene Dowd, Luis Lara Malvacias, Iréne Hultman, and Barbara Mahler. Upcoming.
Studies Project: Teaching Downtown Dance / Teaching Dance Downtown
Friday, March 26th, 2010, 6pm, FREE
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
Initiated by Jmy Leary and the Movement Research Faculty and Artist Advisory Council and Moderated by Randy Martin
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? Panelists include Douglas Dunn, K.J. Holmes, Juliette Mapp, and others.
Workshop with HeJin Jang: Page/Stage Your Silence Through Embodiment
Saturdays, April 3rd - May 22nd, 2010, 5:00-7:30 pm, FREE
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
*You can participate for one or more days, or as many as you like!
REGISTER by emailing info@movementresearch.org
We move to de-contain. We move to re-member and forget. Our bodies are containment of noises and silences of our memories that are constantly affecting how we live our lives now. This workshop explores our unshared, untold stories through embodiment. It is a practice to give voices to our muted memories. Using both writing and moving as forms of embodiment, we will break and un-break our silence through bodily thinking with the question “How can we use words as we use movement?” Our bodies speak louder than words, but as we search for words and inscriptions to “match” what our bodies have spoken, it can become performative writing. We will use writing as a treasure hunter of dance and silence. This class will start with a silent warm-up leading into improvisation and composition. We will explore several layers and dimensions of silence in and outside of our bodies. There will be showing of our materials utilizing what we created-both individually and collectively. The showing as a practice of sharing/caring will have both aspects of page and stage (meaning a printed booklet/journal and a performance at the end of the workshop). Pre-registration recommended.
Workshop with Reggie Wilson and Andréya Ouamba
Wednesday April 14th - Friday April 16th 2010, 2:30 pm-5:30 pm, $90
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
REGISTER HERE: www.movementresearch.org/classesworkshops/classdescriptions/?class=workshops
This Master Class explores various movement forms - abstract, modern, full-bodied, grounded and rhythm-based movement and postmodern structure. We will utilize elements and movement languages from cultures of the Southern U.S., the Caribbean and Southern, Western and Central Africa. Attention is focused on the weight and direction of the pelvis, the use of the full foot and the use of the full range of the demi-plié.
Video Clips from Movement Research at the Judson Church, March 1 2010.
Featuring works by The Zifadanz Group, Daman Harun, and LVJ Performance Company
“Structure” or “Stuck In Stone” The Zifadanz Group
This version of “Structure” or “Stuck In Stone” is a work in progress. It will be a part of the dance art theatre production called “Under The Sun.” It swirls nature, industrialism and technology. Will our future existence as humans be among only concrete and computers?
Sifa is the founder, choreographer and producer of The ZifaDanz Group, a dance theater project she created in September 2006. Sifa studied with The Dance Theatre of Harlem and attended CUNY Hunter College where she majored in Dance. Sifa has performed in repertory pieces for The Jose Limon Dance Company, Evidence A Dance Company, Forces of Nature and The National Dance Theatre of Jamaica.
Untitled: Movement Exploration No. 68 & 69 Choreography: Daman Harun Performed: Daman Harun and John-Mario Sevilla Music: Pierre Octave Ferroud and Claude Debussy Flute solo: Kevin Russell
Daman Harun has been performing and choreographing in New York for the past 10 years. Comments or to be on email-list: damandance@gmail.comKevin Russell is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. He dances like a wild animal. John-Mario Sevilla, who hails from Maui, is the Director of the Dance Education Lab at the 92Y Harkness Dance Center. He was a performer, choreographic collaborator, rehearsal director and teacher for Pilobolus. John-Mario’s choreography has appeared at Dance Theatre Workshop, St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bouwerie, ABC No Rio, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, The Asia Society, BAAD etc. He studies the hula with Kumu June Kaililani Tanoue.
Untitled (work in progress) Directed, written, choreographed by Larissa Velez Performed by Sarah Holcman, Andrea Johnston, Abigail Levine and Larissa Velez Text improvisation by Abigail Levine Movement improvisation by Sarah Holcman, Andrea Johnston and Abigail Levine Reading by Jon Jackson
Larissa Velez received a BFA from the University of the Arts in 1998, where her senior thesis won the award for Best Choreography. Velez currently creates works that fuse contemporary dance with multimedia theater. She has shown this work at Movement Research at Judson Church, the SoloNova Arts Festival at PS 122, Dixon Place, Canada Gallery, Swiss Institute, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought, the Milwaukee International Art Festival and Center for Performance Research. Velez performed her choreographic/musical collaboration with Hilary Clark, Response time with help her out/take 357, at Dance Theater Workshop’s Fresh Tracks show in January 2009. In praising their work, Gia Kourlas of The New York Times noted the duo’s “fearless comic timing.” In 2009, Velez was the recipient of a studio residency at Dance Theatre Workshop where she created the full-length work Loving Overkill Via Satellite, a dance performance posing as a television variety show that The New Yorker called “an amusing place to be.”
Video Clips from Movement Research at the Judson Church, February 22, 2010.
Featuring works by Abigail Levine, Jung Woong Kim, and Maggie Bennett.
Slipknot By: Abigail Levine Set and costume consultant: daniel lang/levitsky
This spring, Abigail Levine will perform in Marina Abramovi_: The Artist is Present at MoMA, with Larissa Velez here next Monday, and in Marianela Boán’s False Testimony in Mexico. Abigail will next show her own work with Strange Company, a duet project with Taiwanese artist Pei-chun Wang, in São Paulo, Brazil in June.
<Earthquake> Choreographer: Jung Woong Kim Musician: Joshua Morris (bass) Performed by and created with: Blake Holden, Ben Harley, Mark Messer, Joshua Morris, Fred Hatt, Jung Woong Kim
Jung Woong Kim was born and raised in Ulsan, Korea. He graduated from the Korea National University of the Arts (KNUA) with a major in choreography and performance. In 2006 he started collaborating with Puerto Rican dancer Marion Ramirez and formed U Turn Dance Company. Their first full length piece, ‘SAI’ was commissioned by The Nation Theater of Korea, and later presented by Pusan International Performing Arts Festival and Seoul International Marginal Theater Festival. Other pieces where presented at Democracy Park Theater in Korea, Miami Contemporary Dance Company, Frying Pan Boat in New York, Ithaca’a Love Shoe festival 2008, Movement Research Open Performance at DTW and New Dance Alliance’s Performance Mix 2009 at Joyce Soho. Since spring 2008, they have taught independent contact improvisation workshops, currently continuing the spring sessions at The Park Avenue Armory as part of Moving Theater’s residency. Jung Woong has been a guest improvisation teacher at Gong Guk University department of dance, KNUA for acting students, Trust Dance Company and Temple University.
Work in Progress Created by Maggie Bennett
Material developed in full collaboration with Marilyn Maywald
This work has been made with support from David Hurwith, for generous use of his studio space, and has received support from the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program funded, in part, by the Leonard and Sophie David Fund.
Maggie Bennett is a performer and choreographer in New York City. She is interested in the body as the site of content in choreographic work, and is pursuing dance opportunities and creating processes that allow her to investigate that potential. She has an ongoing improvisation practice that has been influenced by Jennifer Monson, K.J. Holmes, Deborah Hay, David Hurwith, and peer collaborators, including Marilyn Maywald and Megan Byrne. She loves to perform at Judson Church. mcgbennett@gmail.com
This Week at Movement Research… Judson, Open Performance, and classes!! Also, upcoming Studies Project!
Monday March 1. Movement Research at the Judson Church.
8pm. Judson Memorial Church at 55 Washington Square South.
Featuring works by The Zifadanz Group, Larissa Velez, and Daman Harun.
Hello everyone. As of 8am on 2/25 there are no class cancellations. Irene Hultman and Barbara Mahler are teaching as scheduled from 10am-12pm. Enjoy your journey through the big snowflakes on your way to class this morning!
It’s been a while since I last blogged. I wish I could say that that was due to work keeping me moving. I definitely had a lot of work to do, but none of it had me moving, other than an amazing dance party I went to right when I got back to New York. I even did “chicken fighting” and almost fell onto the speakers.
I suppose my physical moving locations from New York, to London, to Brussels, and the reverse does affect my thinking and moving. But I can’t yet grasp it.
I could definitely grasp the pen, when earlier today I signed a lease on an amazing new apartment in Brooklyn!
Jillian Peña, 2009 MR artist-in-residence, jillianpena.com, i love you
Video Clips from Movement Research at the Judson Church, February 15, 2010.
Featuring works by Jesse Phillips-Fein, Saul Ulerio, and Nohemi Montzerrat.
This Week at Movement Research… Judson, Open Performance, and classes!!! Application for Movement Research at the Judson Church has been posted! Information on SOLD OUT Anna Halprin workshop below!
Open Performance March 10, 8:00pm Moderator: Cori Olinghouse* Michael Freeman, Ben Van Buren, Melinda Lee, Labor Forces Dance
Movement Research At The Judson Church March 15, 8:00am Eeva Muilu•, Dana Salisbury & The No-See-Ums, Vanessa Justice, Milka Djordjevich & Dragana Bulut
Open Performance March 17, 8:00pm Moderator: Regina Rocke Anne Burnidge Dance, Barbara Mahler, Ellen Gerdes, Kira Alker & Elke Luyten
