Spring 2010
January 26
Dance on Camera
Judson Memorial Church Meeting Hall, 7:00 pm
New York, NY
A shorts program curated by current Movement Research Artists-in-Residence Renée Archibald, HeJin Jang, Mariangela Lopez, MartÃÂn 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. MartÃÂn 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)â€Â- 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
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 6:00 pm
New York, NY
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 Hilary Clark, Douglas Dunn, K.J. Holmes, Juliette Mapp, and others.
April 23
Breath Made Visible Film and Discussion
Anna Halprin and Argot Pictures
Cinema Village, 7:00 pm
22 E. 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
BREATH MADE VISIBLE 2009, 80 min. Switzerland, USA, Directed by Ruedi Gerber BREATH MADE VISIBLE is the first feature length film about the life and career of Anna Halprin, the American dance pioneer who has helped redefine our notion of modern art with her belief in dance's power to teach, heal, and transform at all ages of life. This cinematic portrait blends recent interviews with counterparts such as the late Merce Cunningham, archival footage, including her establishment of the first multiracial dance company in the U.S, and excerpts of current performances such as "Parades and Changes" at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, to weave a stunning, inspiring account of one of the most important cultural icons in modern dance. "Ms. Halprin becomes quite as rich a subject for film as Ms. Monk: another odd face, another wonderfully calm (though ardently enthusiastic) and open talker, another (and senior) artist who responds to both politics and scenery." -NY TIMES "Engaging. Illustrative. The quintessential Left Coast choregrapher Anna Haprin has helped push the boundaries of modern dance." -VARIETY "An intelligent, beautifully photographed, smartly edited film." -BACKSTAGE
April 23
Breath Made Visible Film and Discussion
Anna Halprin and Argot Pictures
Cinema Village, 9:00 pm
22 E. 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
April 24
Breath Made Visible Film and Discussion
Anna Halprin and Argot Pictures
Cinema Village, 9:00 pm
22 E. 12th Street
New York, NY 10003
April 27
The Pain Panel
Conceived of and Moderated by Kathy Westwater
Abrons Arts Center, 7:30 pm
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
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 14
Enjambre*/Network/Red*
Initiated by MartÃÂn Lanz Landázuri and Alejandra Martorell with Nohemi Montzerrat Contreras
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 6:00 pm
New York, NY
Join us for a three-part research project on the complexities and possibilities of various artists' networks. How do artists living in different hemispheres balance virtual and geographical mobility? Bring your concerns about network relationships. Bring your membership cards, your username and passwords, your international passport, visa, needs and wishes for connecting. Bring your anti-network manifesto. Bring comfortable clothing and recording/documenting tools (visual, audio, analog and digital)... Sound People, bring or send tracks - for the first session a track using "swarm" or "network" as theme... Send us writings on recent "network" events - Bahia, Salzburg, Paraguay... send them to CC@movementresearch.org If you Network, send your network's terms of agreement, mission statement, historical evolution... Friday May 14, 6-8:30 pm Tuesday June 8, 2-5pm Tuesday June 10, 2-5pm
June 8
Enjambre*/Network/Red*
Initiated by MartÃÂn Lanz Landázuri and Alejandra Martorell with Nohemi Montzerrat Contreras
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 12:00 pm
New York, NY
June 10
Enjambre*/Network/Red*
Initiated by MartÃÂn Lanz Landázuri and Alejandra Martorell with Nohemi Montzerrat Contreras
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, 12:00 pm
New York, NY
June 13
Inter-Generational Exchange in Improvisational Pra
Discussion moderated by Danielle Goldman
Initiated by Nicky Paraiso, Co-Curator, La MaMa E.T.C.
La Mama, 5:30 pm
74 E. 4th Street
New York, NY
Inter-Generational Exchange in Improvisational Practice : This event, in partnership with La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival (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. Panelists include Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff and Jennifer Monson, and Danielle Goldman will moderate the discussion. The event will also include dancing to a score developed by Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones. Dancers include Daniel Clifton, Jonathan Kinzel, Daniel Lepkoff, Paul Langland, Melanie Maar, Jennifer Monson, Yina Ng, Arturo Vidich and Anthony Whitehurst.
July 29
Symposium on MASCULINITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE
Hosted by Urban Research Theater in partnership with the Movement Research Studies Project Series
Medicine Show Theater, 10:00 am
549 West 52nd Street
New York, NY
On July 29, Urban Research Theater, in partnership with the Movement Research Studies Project Series, will host a Symposium on MASCULINITY AND EMBODIED PRACTICE, at Medicine Show Theater, 549 West 52nd Street. Submit your proposal now!
