Fall 2010/Winter 2011
October 20
Moving Dialogue
Mădălina Dan, Mihaela Dancs, Paul Duncă, Cosmin Manolescu, Vava Stefanescu, Gina Serbanescu (RO), Maggie Bennett, Levi Gonzalez, HeJin Jang, Jon Kinzel, and Jillian Peña (USA)
Romanian Cultural Institute New York, 7:00 pm
200 East 38th Street
New York, NY
Panelists (subject to change) Mădălina Dan, Mihaela Dancs, Paul Duncă, Cosmin Manolescu, Vava Ştefănescu, Gina Şerbănescu (RO), Maggie Bennett, Levi Gonzalez, HeJin Jang, Jon Kinzel, and Jillian Peña (USA) introduce the Romanian contemporary dance scene and discuss making work in the USA and Romania. Reception to follow. Romanian Cultural Institute New York, 200 East 38th Street at 3rd Avenue
October 27
PJ @ 20
Moderated by Kathy Westwater
Judson Memorial Church Gymnasium, 7:00 pm
New York, NY
Celebrating its 20th Anniversary, the Movement Research Performance Journal fosters the exploration and evolution of written and graphic languages that contemplate current issues of dance and performance. We take this opportunity to examine the MRPJ’s history and relevance, how it operates as a vehicle for dynamic exchange, as a form of documentation, and as an extension of artistic practice and output. Panelists include Cathy Edwards, Ralph Lemon, Sarah Michelson, Trajal Harrell, Tom Kalin, and others.
December 4
Hovels, hamlets and digital sprawl: our origins
Rosemary Quinn
TRULY MADLY DEEPLY Fall Festival 2010 artists
La Mama, 2:00 pm
74 E. 4th Street
New York, NY
Festival artists gather for a discussion moderated by Rosemary Quinn, Experimental Theater Wing Studio Director, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Shared experience and a sense of common space are revered by many to be indispensable tenets in the performing arts. Theatrical constructs have been created anew in the digital era. This is a group of artists that together spans the continuum from deep in the pre-digital to a future in the post digital. The moment they share now is somewhere in between. These ideas will serve as departure points, ultimately leading to an artist-generated discussion.
January 25
Dance on Camera
Moderated by Samuael Topiary
Judson Memorial Church Meeting Hall, 7:00 pm
New York, NY
A shorts program curated by Movement Research 2010 Artists-in-Residence Anna Azrieli, Laurie Berg, Yve Laris Cohen and Chase Granoff, in collaboration with Dance Films Association Director Deirdre Towers. This event is a part of DFA’s 39th Annual Dance on Camera Festival. The evening's viewing and discussion will radiate out from an initial grouping of three short films selected from submissions to Dance Film Association's 2011 Dance On Camera Festival. Each film centers around movement in relationship to landscapes, ranging from the natural world to the urban environment. The films posit the moving body as an active agent that designs its surroundings, while still being subject to the sublime. The second part of the evening features films and videos selected by the curators, responding to issues brought up by themes in the original films, as well as this event's curatorial process. Samuael Topiary will moderate a discussion that engages all of the films and discourses surrounding this event. _______________________________________ 30 CECIL STREET Dan Canham/Will Hanke, UK, 2010, 7:20m Shot in the dilapidated premises of the Theatre Royal in the Limerick Athenaeum building, Ireland. With a history that stretches back over 150 years, the Royal Theatre has been closed to the public for the last 13 years. Engaging with the atmosphere and past of this near-derelict building and using the soundtrack made up of four sounds and interviews with people associated with the Athenaeum, this short explores the state of a building once the hub of cultural activity. _______________________________________ DUNE DANCE Zena Bibler, USA; 2010, 2:08m Dune(s) dance on a blustery day in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Choreographed, danced, and filmed on the spot in May 2010. _______________________________________ OANNES Ivo Serra, USA; 2007, 6m Oannes represents The GOD of knowledge to the Babylonian (Ea) and to the Greeks, cultures, and he was the last mythological figure to be connected with the lost city Atlantis. The artist sought to make this mythological being appear. _______________________________________ www.dancefilms.org
