January 26
Dance on Camera
Judson Memorial Church Meeting Hall, 7:00 pm

A shorts program curated by current Movement Research Artists-in-Residence Renée Archibald, HeJin Jang, Mariangela Lopez, Martín Lanz Landázuri and Jillian Peña. This collaboration with Dance Films Association, now in its second year, was initiated by Mathew Heggem, as part of DFA’s Annual Dance on Camera Festival. A reception will follow the screening. This year’s curators are really taking the next step! They have put together an evening of videos that inspire them, and have even created new works in conversation with existing works found in the DFA archive and elsewhere. Mariangela Lopez and Renée Archibald look to the beginnings of film to find original experiments of dance on camera that explore themes and techniques that are still of interest among contemporary artists today. Martín Lanz Landázuri has selected the contemporary film Anda´s Dream, produced during I Like to Move It Move It, the project from Linz2009. HeJin Jang directs and performs in one segment entitled: Talk and Un-talk to the film “Hard Told (2008)”- Embodying Silence through Media Mutism. Jillian Peña will show a new work: Merce by Merce by Paik by Peña by Pessagno.

March 26
Teaching Downtown Dance / Teaching Dance Downtown
Initiated by Jmy Leary & MR Faculty & Artist Advisory Council, Moderated by Randy Martin
Dance Theater Workshop Studio, 6:00 pm

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.

April 27
The Pain Panel
Conceived of and Moderated by Kathy Westwater
Abrons Arts Center, 7:30 pm

Body-based artists who use their medium to express what has been described as the inexpressible, and as destroying of even the ability to express, talk about the role of pain in their creative process. Yve Laris Cohen on surgery as performative sculpture and the accumulation of trauma; Peggy Gould on the anatomy of pain; Jennifer Miller on fire, ropes, and knives: tropes of the sideshow; George Emilio Sanchez on class, race, and existentialism; and Christopher Williams on the tortured lives of saints.

May 1
Enjambre: Networks as Metaphor and Reality
Martín Lanz Landázuri and Alejandra Martorell with Nohemi Montzerrat ContrerasDance Theater Workshop Studio, 12:00 pm

How do artists living in different hemispheres balance virtual and geographical mobility? This discussion will be part of a week-long conference, Todo punto corresponde a unas reglas / Every point corresponds to a combination of rules, that includes sessions aiming to study the complexities and possibilities of various artist networks, and studio practices where the emergent properties can be embodied. We will use and observe examples such as Embassy of, Sweet and Tender, Red Sudamericana de Danza, and dance-tech.net. Time and location TBA

June 1
Inter-Generational Exchange in Improvisational Pra
Nicky Paraiso, Co-Curator, La MaMa E.T.C. Dance Theater Workshop Studio, 12:00 pm

This event, in partnership with the LaMaMa E.T.C.(June 8-27, 2010), will uncover lineages of improvisational practices. Curators Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones will instigate a discussion amongst pioneers of improvisation in dance, as well as contemporary artists who are practicing investigations within the larger context of improvisation. Time and location TBA