MRPJ#11/conversations: Editor’s Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden I am leaving Movement Research in September. I came here with no specific vision. Over the past four and a half years, it has become clear to me that a specific vision would probably have a negative effect. I don’t even like the term vision.

MRPJ#11/conversations: Table of Contents

Fall 1995 Editor: Cathy Edwards Editor’s Note From the Movement Research co-directors about the photographs in Performance Journal #11

MRPJ#11/conversations: “Chaos and Order: Improvisation Taken to the Limit” Steve Paxton in conversation with Aat Hougee

I guess I have a tendency to see things in complex ways. On the one hand I see things that sort of seem to happen together, all of a jumble, like shuffling cards and you come up with a particular decade or an artistic climate. Other times I see long cycles of different artistic schools […]

MRPJ#10/performance/protest/resistance/activism: Extras

In a deadly dull world, realism means living with risk and living on hope, means moving into new territory on principle, means forcing oneself to go against the grain of respectability.

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  • 1.14.09

MRPJ#10/performance/protest/resistance/activism: Table of Contents

Winter and Spring 1995 Editor: Cathy Edwards The De-Tom-O-Tron by Algernon Miller Editor’s Note Arlene Carmen: 1936 – 1994

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  • 1.14.09

MRPJ#10/performance/protest/resistance/activism: Editor’s Note

Editor: Cathy Edwards We began organizing this issue of the Performance Journal around the theme of “protest” – as it related to activisim, politically oppositional art-making, and personal choices or actions.

MRPJ#10/performance/protest/resistance/activism: “The 90’s Culture of Xenophobia” by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

I. The Capital of the American Crisis “Americans never remember, Mexicans never forget.” –popular Mexican saying From 1978 to 1991, I lived and worked in and among the cities of Tijuana, San Diego, and Lost Angeles. Like hundreds of thousands of Mexicans living at the border, I was a binational commuter.

MRPJ#9/Body of Language/Figure of Speech: Extras

The obsession with categories a priori is not a bad thing in itself. It can be an informative and educational way of understanding artists’ points of departure, and it avoids placing someone within the wrong judgmental brackets.

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  • 12.28.08

MRPJ#9/Body of Language/Figure of Speech: Table of Contents

Fall and Winter 1994/1995 Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden Editors’ Note Letter to the Editor: Response to Susan Klein’s article: “Klein Technique” by Eva Karczag A Family Tree Story by Simone Forti

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  • 12.26.08

MRPJ#9/Body of Language/Figure of Speech: Editors’ Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden The focus of this issue of the Performance Journal is the impact of language—spoken and written, “understood” or not—on movement, performance, and the dancing body.

MRPJ#9/Body of Language/Figure of Speech: “Fast Hands” by Julie Carr

I was at Naropa in the summer of 1991 studying dance improvisation with Nancy Stark Smith and Steve Paxton. I was also sitting in on many of the lectures and readings that were given through the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (The Naropa Institute’s writing program).

MRPJ#8/A Travel Issue: Extras

“Every night lying in bed, under three blankets and sleeping, I have a strong feeling of how the human body is very, very soft, very unprotected. In a full darkness trembling under the mortar shelling, I can feel so clearly “their” intention to kill.

MRPJ#8/A Travel Issue: Table of Contents

Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden Editors’ Note Fragments of Sarajevo introduction by Caroline Palmer, writings by Izeta Gradevic An American Deplacee in Quebec by Dena Davida

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  • 12.16.08

MRPJ#8/A Travel Issue: Editors’ Note

Editors: Cathy Edwards and Guy Yarden As artists move through our tiny office on the way to somewhere, or on their way back from somewhere, we think about TRAVEL: what it means to take a journey, and what issues are implicit in the ways that culture travels. While Movement Research is a home base for […]

MRPJ#8/A Travel Issue: “A Letter to Florence Flung” by Sarah Skaggs

Dear Florence, Many greetings. I sit here today writing and reflecting on my travels and teaching experiences in Hong Kong, Taipei, and most recently Prague, for an interesting journal we have here in New York, created by Movement Research.

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