• what is movement research at the judson church "about town"?
A free, high visibility low-tech weekly forum throughout the fall/winter and winter/spring seasons for experimentation, emerging ideas and works-in-progress; artists selected by a rotating peer panel of artists. In the 2005-06 season, the program will take place at venues around town, due to construction at the Judson Memorial Church. From October – November ‘05, and January ’06, the series will take place at Dance Theater Workshop.
• how to apply:
Proposals to participate in the series for the winter/spring 2006 season, February – May, should be postmarked and sent to our mailing address/P.O. Box or hand-delivered by September 30, 2005. Include a brief description of proposed work, bio/resume, cued, representative video(s) or DVD, and SASE.
• criteria for selection and context:
Movement Research (MR) continues to serve as a creative laboratory and incubator for emerging artists and ideas. The Movement Research at the Judson Church series, in its 14th season in 2005/06, is one of a number of MR programs intended to foster rigorous and wide-ranging artistic investigations that are movement-based, but that can incorporate other disciplines and collaborations. An ongoing, free, high-visibility low-tech forum in front of a live audience for both works- and ideas-in-progress, this series attracts diverse intergenerational artists at all stages of their creative development and audiences from the dance community and general public. Because MR by mission supports creative process, not final product, the Judson series is for exploration of ideas, not as a venue for finished work on a season's presentation. MR functions within the wider ecology of dance to nurture experimentation in movement-based forms, and inform the innovative work that is later produced on larger presenting organizations’ stages and in non-traditional venues, here and abroad.
Artists are selected by a rotating peer panel that is comprised of 3-5 artists and meets twice yearly (for 2004/05 the panel met once for the three-month series, given construction at the Judson Church).