Featuring works by Angie Pittman, Sofie Burgoyne, Shua Group, Liz McAuliffe, and Angélica Angulo Soledad
Ballads
Choreographed and Performed by Angie Pittman
Music: Extracts from Thelma Houston “Don’t Leave Me This Way”, David Ruffin/The Temptations “I Wish It Would Rain”, and The Four Tops “The Same Old Song”
Dancing together apart / Dancing apart together
Choreography: Sofie Burgoyne
Music: Daniel Potter
Creative Collaboration: Bryan Woltjen
The development of Dancing together apart / Dancing apart together has been kindly supported by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Dance4 and Greenwich Dance.
Each Other
By Shua Group
Performers: Laura Quattrocchi and Joshua Bisset
Music: Michael Pisaro
Winter Formal
Created and performed by Lizz McAuliffe
María
Choreographer, Performer, Costume, Voice and Translation: Angélica Angulo Soledad
Music: Andy Miller
Sound: Leonardo Girón
Fighting sound and script from “Maldita Peluquera” in youtube
Anywhere (excerpt of a work-in-process)
Choreography by Kathy Westwater
Performance by Hadar Ahuvia, Ilona Bito, Amanda Hunt, and Alex Romania
Music by Henryk Górecki, Symphony No. 3, Opus 36
Art Direction by Seung Jae Lee
Audio Integration Design by Seung Jae Lee
Performance Clothes by Fufu
Excerpts from cLOUD
Choreography by Melinda Ring in collaborations with the dancers: Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, and Molly Lieber
Costumes: Melinda Ring
cLOUD was researched during residencies at Headlands Center for the Arts and Yaddo. The work was made possible, in part through the Movement Research 2014-2106 Artist-In-Residence program, which is funded, in part, by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Davis/Dauray Family Fund. Additional funding provided by the Friends of Special Projects through the fiscal sponsorship of New York Live Arts.
Featuring works by Jen McGinn, Alex Romania, Molly Poerstel and iele paloumpis.
Research on Referential Mosaics for: a Gram & a Gone
Choreographed by James & Jen | McGinn & Again
Performed by Andrew Champlin, Maggie Cloud, Emma Geisdorf and James McGinn
Excerpt from ‘CBT’ – an evening length work in process
Choreographed and Performed by Alex Romania
This work was created with commissioning support from Gibney Dance and generous support from The Howard Gilman Foundation, with additional commissioning support by the Late Nite Series at the Pillsbury House in Minneapolis, and residency support from Abrons Arts Center and Chez Bushwick.
Our movement practice for: Are we a fossil, and of facings.
Performers: Jennifer Kjos, Alice MacDonald and Eleanor Smith
Sound Designer: Dana Wachs
Choreography: Molly Poerstel
This work was made possible, in part through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Davis/Dauray Family Fund, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Are we a fossil, and of facings was created with additional commissioning support from Gibney Dance with funds provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.
Oceanic End (working title, excerpt)
Choreography by iele paloumpis in collaboration with Jai Arun Ravine
Performance by April Herms, iele paloumpis, HaQuyen Pham, Jai Arun Ravine, Monica Rodriguez, Cassie Wagler and Adrien Weibgen
Text and Lyrics excerpted from Ursula K. LeGuin’s Always Coming Home
Musical Composition by iele paloumpis
Musical Realization by HaQuyen Pham and Cassie Wagler in collaboration with the full cast of singers
Ison Recording featuring the voices of Eric Linsker and Adrien W
Featuring works by juri nishio, Victoria Arakcheyeva, and Lariza.
Excerpt “Heart Sutra”
Choreographer: juri nishio
Performer: juri nishio
Music: Sawako, Nag family benefit choir
Rhymes with Legs
Choreographer: Victoria Arakcheyeva
Performers: Massima Selene Desire, Lucas Rollins-Page, Victoria Arakcheyeva
Music: Julia Child
Anna and the scarred ghost (Mirrors Project)
Created and performed by Lariza
Collaborators: Osvaldo Costa (Counsellor), Ainé Adriana Martelli (Director), Miguel Hernández (Musical edition)
Original music from Martyrs Sound Track, Seppuku Paradigm
March 30 8PM MR at Judson Church Rebecca Brooks, Stanley Love Performance Group**, Jumatatu Poe of idiosynCrazy productions, Karin Verbruggen Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
March 31 7PM Open Performance Moderated by Jenn McGinn* Sarah Lass, Launch Movement Experiment, Polyphony Co Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor
March 23 8PM MR at Judson Church Caitlin Cook, Noopur Singha, Betty Skeen, WKcollective / Wanjiru Kamuyu Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South
March 24 7PM Open Performance Moderated by Alex Escalante* Martita Abril, Liz Charky, JT Lotus Dance Company Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor
These fragments
Staging/dance: Diana Sherwood, Music (if used): Sigur Ros.
Over the last several years, I have begun to explore and embody the works of the early German Expressionist dancers as well as 20th Century dancers from the U.S. as seen on film. I have done this not to reconstruct historical dances, but to learn the earlier dancers’ interpretation and translation of the world in physical language and to then re-translate this into a contemporary context. This exploration has made me more acutely aware of partnering space and the architectural elements in movement and visual images these may create, than before. My work tonight explores these ideas.
Diana Sherwood has been a member of the Rudy Perez Performance Ensemble and currently divides her time between NY and LA.
4Chambers (performance installation in-progress)
Choreography: Jody Oberfelder created in collaboration with dancers:
Zachary Denison, Michelle Jongeneel, Joey Kipp, Mary Madsen, Mercedes Searer, and Jake Szczypek.
Music: Richard Einhorn, Jonathan Melville Pratt
4Chambers will be sited on Governors Island this summer. The piece takes place in four discreet rooms referencing the heart. Tonight we give a taste of two of these chambers blended together for Judson.
Jody Oberfelder has been making work in New York for several decades. She has sung in a rock band, choreographed an array of boldly physical dances including ‘Approaching Climax’, ‘Throb’, and ‘The Story Thus Far’, ‘The Title Comes Last’, and directed theater and opera, most recently, Stravinsky’s ‘A Soldier’s Tale’ and Purcell’s ‘Dido & Aeneas’. With a keen eye for the visual, she has also created eight dance films. 4Chambers is her first installation piece. It will premiere this summer on Governors Island for three weekends in July. Transforming Officers House #15 into a four chambered heart with arteries and veins, participants will monitor their own heart while traversing through it. As we’re still working on the piece–any feedback would be greatly appreciated (jody@jodyoberfelder.com). We’re also looking for volunteers to be part of our Governors Island performances. jodyoberfelder.com
Featuring works by Courtney Krantz, Marissa Rae Niederhauser, Justin Cabrillos, and Karis Zidore Christensen.
Tentative title: Singular: Sequential
Performed by: Aaron Mattocks & Courtney Krantz
Costumes: Paul Carey
Music: Gabriel Yared
Sound: Inhan Cho This work was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
Courtney Krantz makes work in the still and moving image (both analog and digital) as well as installation and performance-based documents/pieces.This is an excerpt from a larger work-in-progress made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Jerome Foundation and the Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund.
WINGS
Choreography, text & performance: Marissa Rae Niederhauser
Music samples: Big Business and The Rolling Stones Thank you to Movement Research and to The Field FAR Space
Marissa Rae Niederhauser has a BFA in Dance from Cornish College of the Arts, in Seattle,WA. She makes body-based work in dance, film, performance and installation. Contact marissa.rae.n@gmail.com or go to http://marissaniederhauser.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Afterword (in progress)
Choreographed and performed by Justin Cabrillos
Music by Jeremy Schmidt
Justin Cabrillos is a choreographer, artist, and writer based in Brooklyn. Cabrillos received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was a summer fellow at Ox-Bow School of Art, an IN>TIME Incubation Series artist-in-residence at the Chicago Cultural Center, and a 2011 LinkUP Artist at Links Hall in Chicago. He is the recipient of a Greenhouse grant from the Chicago Dancemaker’s Forum. Cabrillos has shown work at the Cultural Center of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Movement Research Spring Festival. He has previously performed with Every house has a door, Marissa Perel, and currently with Jen Rosenblit. www.justincabrillos.com
When Who For Lucy – the shuffle performance
Choreographed and performed by Marlene Bonnesen, Sebastian Kahr Rasmussen, Nanna Stigsdatter Mathiassen and Karis Zidore
The iPod(∗) and you, the audience, are the decision makers.
Let’s shuffle!
Here are the simple rules that you, the audience, follow:
1. You start the performance by plugging in an iPod(∗) and pressing play.
2. Please change song and/or iPod(∗) whenever you want.
The performance ends when the lights go off.
(∗)”iPod” means: One of our 4 iPods put on shuffle OR your own iPod with your favorite music. All types of iPods, iPhones and other smart phones are allowed!
Karis Zidore Christensen: Please go to the When Who For Lucy group on Facebook for more information.
This Week at Movement Research… It’s Festival Week! Come check out the amazing performances, workshops and events going on for Alternate/Shelter!
Monday April 29. Movement Research at the Judson Church. 8pm. Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South.
NO RESERVATIONS and ADMISSION IS FREE Seating is limited, so arrive early. Featuring works by: Marjani Forte**, K.J. Holmes*, John Jasperse, Jen Rosenblit, Saúl Ulerio*
*2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence **2011 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence
Movement Research Festival Spring 2013: Alternate/Shelter
May 21-25, 2013
Curated by Vanessa Anspaugh, Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura and Antonio Ramos
Check out the full schedule here and individual days below!
Saturday May 25. Workshop with Samita Sinha and Kota Yamazaki: Still Sounding, Still Standing
SAT 12-1pm, First Park FREE
Everyone welcome! This practice connects you to the inner and outer landscapes of your body by listening, sounding, standing and moving. The workshop will be followed by a free performance with participants of Movement Research’s “Body Sound” workshop.
Classes this week with…
Levi Gonzalez. Morning Class. Monday, Wednesday, Friday. 10:00am-12:00pm. $14.
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor. No class May 27
Using the morning technique class structure as a model, this class will focus on dance as a physical, conceptual, and experiential practice, with an emphasis on the cultivation of presence inside of the forms. Class will begin with imagery and gentle preparation culled from various bodywork modalities that access our awareness of the organs, the skeleton, gravity, and energetic pathways through the architecture of the body and into the space. Class will expand into technical exercises, choreographic structures, improvisations, and performance constructs, exploring ways to engage with the material through precise and imaginative means. No class May 27.
Jennifer Nugent. Morning Class. Tuesday & Thursday. 10:00am-12:00pm. $14.
Danspace Project, 131 E. 10th Street.
Using improvisational and set warm-ups, we will focus on the volume and weight inside the body and its relationship to the floor. Exercises that bring awareness to the feet, spine, and pelvic floor encourage the feeling of release in the limbs, allowing us to fall and suspend off-center, simultaneously finding a grounded flexible base of support. Using these physical tools, we will explore sensation, instinct, and the inherent musicality inside the body, phrasing. All the while dancing, we will work toward a more grounded and direct approach to movement.
As well as our Ongoing Classes (click here for full descriptions)
Barbara Mahler. A Re-Education – Klein Technique as Taught by Barbara Mahler. Tuesday and Thursday, 10:00 am-12:00 pm. $14. Tuesday, 6:15-7:45 pm. $14. Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor.
Janet Panetta. Ballet for Contemporary Dancers.
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. 12:00 pm-2:00 pm. $17.
Gibney Dance Center Studio 6, 890 Broadway.
Irene Dowd. Tuesday. 3:00 pm-4:45 pm. $14.
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor.
Shelley Senter. Alexander Technique.
Wednesday. 12:30-2:00 pm. $14.
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor.
Shakti Smith. Contact Improvisation.
Wednesday. 6:30-8:30 pm. $14.
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor.
K.J. Holmes. The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations.
Saturday. 11:00 am-1:00 pm. $14.
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway, 4th Floor.
Featuring works by Stacy Grossfield, Brittany Bailey, Rebecca Patek**, and Moriah Evans*.
Excerpt of Red, Pink, Black
Choreographed and Performed by Stacy Grossfield
With Nicole Daunic, Joey Kipp, and Rebecca Warner
Also with Elle Erdman, Shizu Homma, Claire Johannes, Judy Locovozzi, Pacita Prasarn, and Laura Romero
Music: Requiem Lacrimosa, K 626, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Red, Pink, Black is made possible in part with funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.
Stacy Grossfield has been choreographing and performing in NYC since 2003. She has shown work at AUNTS and AUNTS at the New Museum, BAX, BRIC Studio, CATCH, Dixon Place, Throw at The Chocolate Factory, DTW, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Office Ops rooftop in Brooklyn, Riverside Park, and The Tank. Her first full evening work, Sugar doesn’t live here, was presented at the Studio in Prospect Park, Brooklyn in July 2011. Grossfield was a 2008-2009 Fresh Tracks Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop. She holds a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase College. She is a 2013 recipient of the Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant for Red, Pink, Black, which will premiere in full evening length this year. Look her up on Vimeo and Youtube.
Light Dance with Girl
Dancing by Brittany Bailey
Music by Bryce Hackford
2 ge(a)ther we are w/hole
Rebecca Patek and Erin Clark
Music by Diamond Bones and Alexandre St. Onge This project was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Rebecca Patek is a New York-based choreographer and performance artist creating work that synthesizes dance, theater, and comedy. Patek is an Artist-in-Residence at Movement Research. She was also awarded a 2010-11 Residency at Dance Theater Workshop (New York Live Arts). She has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and Earthdance (as part of the E|merge Artist Residency). Patek’s work has been presented at The Museum of Arts and Design, The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, 92nd Street Y, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dance New Amsterdam, The Joyce Soho, Dixon Place, Mulberry Street Theatre, The Tank, AUNTS, Triskelion Arts, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, The Overture Center (Madison WI), Brickyard Pond (NH), and Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, among other venues. Works commissioned in 2012 include you and i of the storm for the Museum of Arts and Design, and Real Eyes for The Chocolate Factory. Erin Clark is an aerial silks performance artist. She choreographs and performs collaborative and solo pieces that reveal the not so pretty or graceful stories of life, using a notoriously pretty and graceful art form. With an unusual body that is capable of super-human feats of strength but incapable of basic things like walking (the wheelchair is not just a sexy prop), Erin has a taste for these kinds of contradictions and contrasts in emotional expressions that range from the hilarious to the haunting. Since her first aerial workshop with the Aerial Angels in 2009 where she caught the circus bug, she has trained at Flying Dreams Aerial Arts Productions on Saltspring Island, BC, and with Heather Hammond of Helium Aerial Dance in New York City.
An attempt
Choreography: Moriah Evans (with the perceptions of Kira Alker, Anna Azrieli, Yve Laris Cohen, and Sarah Michelson)
Performers: Maggie Cloud, Mina Nishimura, Moriah Evans
Costumes: Evelyn Donnelly and Moriah Evans This project was made possible, in part, through the Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Davis/Dauray Family Fund and by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.
Moriah Evans. Thank you for witnessing, observing, judging, thinking, and waiting during a fragment of process.