Critical Correspondence

MR Festival 2008: Ray Chung in conversation with John Jasperse

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Here’s another verbal exchange from Sidewinder, this time between Bay Area-based Ray Chung and New York City-based John Jasperse. Sidewinder was the name of Movement Research’s most recent Fall Festival, curated with the assistance of Jennifer Monson and Zeena Parkins. During it, some in-town artists sat with the out-of-town artists to talk about each others work. The conversations were loosely framed around the theme of improvisation. This conversation is about 45 minutes long, and covers topics like the relevance of an audience being in the known about a performance being improvisational, Contact Improvisation as a tool and whether there is a generational stamp on that technique, and the relevance of place and cultural context in the current lives of dance and dance improvisation in different areas of the U.S., Europe and other places. Enjoy.