Accidental Movement
As part of her residency, Mariangela Lopez, a Movement Research 2009 Artist-in-Residence, offers this free workshop open to everyone �no prior movement experience is necessary. The workshop space will become a platform to share individual experiences to create the identity of a group. The participants will explore their own creative and movement potential through releasing their personal memories and perceptions of their own environment by utilizing the power of the group to then build a collective experience. Mariangela�s work has emerged from the participation of different members of the community where she lives and develops her work. Through this workshop she hopes to build a core of participants for the development and presentation of a new work to be presented first in Spring 2010 at Movement Research at the Judson Church and possibly other venues. This is an opportunity to be part of a creative process. The participants may choose to come only once or continue the exploration in a weekly basis. You don�t need to start from the very first week, but remember that your consistency will determine your participation in the further development of the work. You don't need to want to perform to come to the sessions.

Dance & Technology Workshop
MRX/UC Irvine present a FREE film screening and workshop in the Active Space technology. This free series of events will take place at the Baryshnikov Arts Center's Howard Gilman Performance Space. The film screening features the work of UC Irvine's award-winning faculty and students, as well as information on their MFA Program. The workshop portion will consist of a warm-up class based in dance techniques and improvisations, and then the chance to interact with the Active Space environment. To register email info@movementresearch.org with your name, email address, and phone number. Be sure to let us know if you are interested in attending the film screening, the workshop, or both. Film Screening: Friday, Oct. 23rd, 6pm Workshop: Saturday, Oct. 24th, 10am-2pm

Practicing Performance
“What if where I am is what I need,� is not an examination of what I need but an examination of the question “What if where I am is what I need?� What if less is more is not less? What if dance is how I practice my relationship with my whole body in relationship to the space where I am dancing in relationship to each passing moment in relationship to my audience? What if the depth of the question is on its surface? This workshop is currently sold out. To be placed on the waitlist please email info@movementresearch.org with your name, email address, and phone number.

Releasing it all then putting it back together
Improv, Releasing, Scores, Texting, Authentic Movement and Automatic Writing to make stuff. Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones will use these strategies in a 5-day workshop to encourage the making of personal improvisational works.

Dare to Perform It
Admission to performance: two drink minimum John Walker and Anne Iobst will be teaching together for the first time. This workshop will culminate in a performance night at Jimmy's 43 on Wednesday December 2. For this workshop you will need to bring something, anything, so as to get the ball rolling... an idea, text, movement, music, or a scrap of something that can be used as a starting off point. Each participant in the workshop will develop a 5 minute piece. It should be daring and hopefully never repeatable.

subjecting Subjectivity - Experiments in playful mindbody perceptions
Honoring mentor Deborah Hay as an influential foundation for this workshop, subjecting Subjectivity will offer performance experiments which expand notions of self into non-attached states of multiplicity. We will play with activating a dynamic relational existence by opening perceptions of spacetime, releasing and harnessing tension, questioning our habitual responses and seriously attending to the humor of moving spontaneously. Perceptual exercises, vocal work and scores, will elucidate the phenomenal relationship between self and Other through movement. Somatic techniques will engage whole-body awareness, meditative experience, the immediacy of the moment and engage the paradox of the self as a verb. In short, we will dance, clown and play with the subjectivity of meaning-making performance. The only requirements for this workshop are benevolent laughter and a willingness to suspend judgment of oneself and others in order to engage in observant dialogue.

Body, Mind, World SOLD OUT
Sometimes our words don't have access to what we know in our bones, while our dancing doesn’t have access to what’s on our minds. We will be improvising moving and speaking, and we will be writing. In the spirit of body, mind, world, we will be articulating subject matter in intuitive and experimental ways.