from the curators:
We are scheming to attract maximum density of performance energy to Judson Church over 14 days, an experiment to discover what sort of strange gooey crystal may precipitate. We are casting out lines in several dimensions and diverging axes: digging into our pasts while following hints from current trends to divine the future, looking locally in our neighborhoods and living rooms one day and stretching the boundaries of our perceived communities the next, exploring rural/natural as well as alternative post-industrial landscapes, and seeking inspiration in the vast expanse of geological time while resonating with the fragmented rhythm of our modern obsession with the new. We are imagining strategies for identifying and dissolving obstacles between disciplines, mediums, and scenes, and plotting to subvert familiar structures. Most of all, we are celebrating what we love about making performance at this moment in time and space.
curatorial team:
web curators:
MOVEMENT RESEARCH STAFF
Executive Director Barbara Bryan
Managing Director Kimberly Doelger
Program Director Amanda Loulaki
Development Associate Brooke Belott
Operations Manager Rebecca Wender
Director of Special Projects Trajal Harrell
Judson Coordinator Laurie Berg
Open Performance Coordinator Bessie McDonough-Thayer
Work-Study Students & Interns Amy Baumgarten, Iolet Francis, Keren Ganin-Pinto, Terry Hempfling, Mauriah Kraker, Hayley Lowe, Eleanor Smith, Sara Worden, Anna-Luella Zahner
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Veronique Brossier, Barbara Bryan, Mary Lou D’Auray, Cathy Edwards, P. Shane Elenbaas, Levi Gonzalez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Janice Shapiro, Carla Peterson, Steve Staso, Guy Yarden, Yasuko Yokoshi
ADVISORY BOARD
Wendell Beavers, David Dorfman, Simone Forti, Cynthia Hedstrom, Bill T. Jones, Daniel Lepkoff, Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Jim Staley
Artist Program Committees
MR Spring Festival 2008 Curatorial Team: Milka Djordjevich, Jeff Larson,
Chris Peck, Anna Sperber
MR Spring Festival 2008 Intern: Anastasia Olowin
MR 2008 Artists-In-Residence: Alex Escalante, Beth Gill, Daniel Linehan, Yvonne Meier, Jimena Paz, Regina Rocke, Antonietta Vicario, Christopher Earle Williams
MR 2007 Artists-In-Residence: Christal Brown, Gerald Casel, Milka Djordjevich, DD Dorvillier, Vanessa Justice, Rebecca Lazier, Barbara Mahler, Mollie O’Brien, Anna Sperber, RoseAnne Spradlin
MR Publishing: Performance Journal #33: Trajal Harrell, Rachel Bernsen
Critical Correspondence: Levi Gonzalez, Alejandra Martorell, Guy Yarden
curatorial team - Anna Sperber / Chris Peck / Jeff Larson / Milka Djordjevich