The Movement Research Festival finds its roots in the Improvisation Festival/New York (IF/NY), initiated in 1992 by Sondra Loring (a MR Artist-in-Residence at the time) and Julie Carr. In 1999 IF/NY became a programs of Movement Research, under the curation of Programming Director Amanda Loulaki. In 2004, Movement Research created an artist-curator format, and, beginning in 2006, Movement Research established the festival as a twice-annual event.
The Fall Festival is shaped by Movement Research's programming staff in collaboration with Festival Curators, who bring their own interests and ideas to specific festival events. The Spring Festival is produced by a group of artist-curators who determine the emphasis, shape, and programming. Together, these two approaches allow for a varied investigation and exploration into current artistic concerns and reflect Movement Research's mission of valuing artists, their creative process and their vital role within society.
The Movement Research Festival Spring 2014 In collaboration with iLAND May 27 β June 2 Curated by Elliott Maltby, Jennifer Monson, Alicia Ohs, Tatyana Tenenbaum
Spring 2014
December 3
Movement Research Festival
Margaret Paek
December 8
Movement Research FALL 2008 Festival
MÃÂ₯rten SpÃÂ₯ngberg
May 27
MR Spring Festival: fallow time - groundwork
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 11:00 am
Queens, NY
FREE
groundwork Flushing Meadows Corona Park iLAND SYMPOSIUM Through Earth, Through Body, Through Speech Join Fantastic Futures and Jason Munshi-South for the workshop and performance listed below, a continuation of their summer 2013 iLAB residency in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Willets Point. The collaboration uses a cross-pollination of artistic practice and scientific method to engage the local community in a conversation around personal and family histories of the park and their visions of the park's future. workshop 11am-3pm Free Meet at the north end of the Unisphere A movement and mapping exercise based on Munshi-Southâs study of white-footed mice, âœUrban landscape genetics: canopy cover predicts gene flow between white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus) populations in New York City.â Rain or shine. A light informal lunch will be provided. Activities are appropriate for all ages.
May 27
MR Spring Festival: fallow time - groundwork
Queens Museum of Art, 4:00 pm
Flushing Meadows Corona Park
Queens, NY
FREE
groundwork Flushing Meadows Corona Park iLAND SYMPOSIUM Through Earth, Through Body, Through Speech Join Fantastic Futures and Jason Munshi-South for the workshop and performance listed below, a continuation of their summer 2013 iLAB residency in Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Willets Point. The collaboration uses a cross-pollination of artistic practice and scientific method to engage the local community in a conversation around personal and family histories of the park and their visions of the park's future. performance 4-6pm Free In the Queens Museum of Art A multi-channel sound installation and performance that represents the scientific concept of an urban to rural gradient. Field recordings of the park are layered with interviews in which visitors are asked to express their memories and hopes for the park, and with a spoken narrative from a mouseâs perspective based on urban landscape genetics.
May 28
MR Spring Festival: fallow time
50 Aviation Road, 9:00 am
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
fallow time Floyd Bennett Field REST-WALK-DRAW-FISH-TALK-MOVE-REST all day and night, arrive and leave as you wish Free, RSVP* required for those staying the night. For details, please contact info@ilandart.org. Two nights of camping for up to 30 people. Open time to engage with the littoral edge of New York City. Dawn walks, star gazing and gentle research activities. This is restorative time. Event supported by iLAND. Tent, sleeping bag and food required for those staying the night. Public Transportation: Take the 2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave / Brooklyn College. Transfer to the Q35 bus south to Floyd Bennett Field. The bus ride takes about 15 minutes. Floyd Bennett Field is also easily accessible by bike and car. 50 Aviation Road Brooklyn
May 29
MR Spring Festival: fallow time
50 Aviation Road, 9:00 am
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
fallow time Floyd Bennett Field REST-WALK-DRAW-FISH-TALK-MOVE-REST all day and night, arrive and leave as you wish Free, RSVP* required for those staying the night. For details, please contact info@ilandart.org. Two nights of camping for up to 30 people. Open time to engage with the littoral edge of New York City. Dawn walks, star gazing and gentle research activities. This is restorative time. Event supported by iLAND. Tent, sleeping bag and food required for those staying the night. Public Transportation: Take the 2 or 5 train to Flatbush Ave / Brooklyn College. Transfer to the Q35 bus south to Floyd Bennett Field. The bus ride takes about 15 minutes. Floyd Bennett Field is also easily accessible by bike and car. 50 Aviation Road Brooklyn
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 10:00 am
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
connective tissue Issue Project Room 4 Workshops see below for times, $5 suggested donation for each Interactive workshops create connections across disciplines and reflect on strategies at scales ranging from the body to the city. Voice as Movement 10-11:45am Peter Sciscioliâs Voice as Movement will connect movement and vocalizing as a way to expand perception and to activate space differently than movement alone. We will discover how this interplay can expand the variety of choices that are available to performers, allowing for a fuller means of expression and articulation through the body. 22 Boerum Place Brooklyn
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 12:00 pm
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
4 Workshops see below for times, $5 suggested donation for each Interactive workshops create connections across disciplines and reflect on strategies at scales ranging from the body to the city. Geometries of Recognition 12-1:45pm RSVP* recommended Rachel Levitsky and Christian Hawkey of the Office of Recuperative Strategies will investigate mutual means of noticing everyday raptures and ruptures in our urban landscape via myth, movies, gestural research, on-site documentation, and some sets of rules. We seek these "geometries of recognition" to mark the passing and morphing of urban sites once either banal or triumphant but now, to our eye, torn and endangered and, in their path, to generate methods of, and for, degentrification. 22 Boerum Place Brooklyn
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 2:00 pm
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
4 Workshops see below for times, $5 suggested donation for each Interactive workshops create connections across disciplines and reflect on strategies at scales ranging from the body to the city. Empty Bodies 2-3:30pm Jaime Ortegaâs workshop explores the body as a repository of memories, narratives, meaning, identity, interpretation and culture. Is it possible to bring the body to a clean slate? We will explore this question using imagery and metaphor to deepen, clarify and refine the way in which we perceive and sense our bodies. We will search for different pathways of moving, a new relationship to space within and without, a deeper place of rest and stillness in the organism. 22 Boerum Place Brooklyn
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 3:30 pm
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
4 Workshops see below for times, $5 suggested donation for each Interactive workshops create connections across disciplines and reflect on strategies at scales ranging from the body to the city. Geographic Translations Workshop 3:30-5pm Join South African artists and activists Thabiso Heccius Pule and Thami Manekehla, currently in NYC through the Suitcase Fund of New York Live Arts, in an artistic exploration and improvisation to live a greener and healthier life style. As choreographers, they have travelled, often on public transportation or on foot, interviewing, documenting and performing in public spaces. Their intimate interactions with people act as a way to bring into relief the reality of global warming and its challenges. 22 Boerum Place Brooklyn
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-field work
City Hall Park, 7:00 pm
Manhattan, NY
FREE
field work City Hall Park + Issue Project Room Geographic Translations Interactive Walk 7pm Free Led by South African artists and activists, Thabiso Heccius Pule and Thami Manekehla, whose interactions with the public bring awareness to the challenges of global warming and the side effects we all have to live with. What will arise from this shared journey on new terrain? Walk starts at southern end of City Hall Park and ends at Issue Project Room.
May 30
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-field work
22 Boerum Place, 8:00 pm
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
prepared field 8pm $5 suggested donation An evening that invites multiplicity in the sensory and self. Graze on performance, sculpture and film that bump up against the festivalâs themes. Participate by showing up, or by submitting a 3-minute video to be shown that night.* Come relax in the sphere of art and community and see the possibilities of what we can make, and what we are making. performers: Lily Gold, Macklin Kowal, Zavé Martohardjono, Honey McMoney, Panoply Performance Laboratory and Dreary Somebody, Anthony Rosado, and Claywood Schraard. Films by all of you.
May 31
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 11:00 am
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
connective tissue Issue Project Room Artist to Artist 11am-1pm $5 suggested donation RSVP* recommended Sharing wisdom across the table, we replenish our resources and expand spheres of knowledge. Come engage in short, structured dialogues with other artists and cross-disciplinary thinkers. Itâs a game; itâs an exercise; itâs a brunch... and youâre invited. Discussion will evolve into an Oracle Brunch. Brunch conceived by MOUNTAIN in collaboration with Athena Kokoronis. Facilitated by Tara Aisha Willis, Elliott Maltby and Alicia Ohs.
May 31
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-connective tissue
22 Boerum Place, 2:00 pm
Brooklyn, NY
$5 suggested donation
iLAND SYMPOSIUM Sensing to Know /Analyzing to Imagine: a talk and walk exploring the dual perspective of the artist-scientist 2-4pm $5 suggested donation. Visual, aural and kinesthetic modes in science and art will be explored by participants who have experience as both scientists and artists. The first hour will be dedicated to discussing the participantsâ understanding of the intersection of these seemingly discrete disciplines and the impact of this dual perspective on their current practices. Following the talk, each participant will lead a section of a walk to the Brooklyn waterfront, reading the landscape through their particular lens. Moderator Jennifer Monson will draw upon her own work, and the insight of 10 years of iLAB residencies, which have developed novel ways of examining New York City's urban environment. participants: Amy Berkov: Visual artist, tropical biologist and professor of Biology Kathleen McCarthy: Sculptor and restoration ecologist Jason Munshi- South: Professor of Biology Hara Woltz: Visual artist, landscape architect and conservation biologist Moderated by Jennifer Monson, artistic director and founder of iLAND-interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance
June 1
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-novel ecosystems
1 Grattan Street, 12:00 pm
studio 221 (indoors)
311 Melrose Street (outdoors)
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
novel ecosystems The Border + an open lot Novel Ecosystems 12-2pm Free 3-5pm Free âœKey characteristics are novelty, in the form of new species combinations and the potential for changes in ecosystem functioning, and human agency, in that these ecosystems are the result of deliberate or inadvertent human action.â Richard J. Hobbs, et al Building on unstructured time provided to the artists on Friday, small groups in atypical combinations consider, debate, refute and enact fallow time. Events take place in two different ecosystems: an indoor studio, The Border, and outdoors at an open lot. Visit the blog for more information, see below.* participants: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani / Buscada, Mariana Castañeda-Lopez, Wendell Cooper | Complex Stability, wanda gala, Luke George, Kate Johnson, Rena Mande, Jan Mun, Jill Slater, Andres Toro, Adaku Utah, Melissa West and others. 1 Grattan Street studio 221 [indoors] 311 Melrose Street [outdoors] Brooklyn
June 1
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-novel ecosystems
1 Grattan Street, 3:00 pm
studio 221 (indoors)
311 Melrose Street (outdoors)
Brooklyn, NY
FREE
novel ecosystems The Border + an open lot Novel Ecosystems 3-5pm Free âœKey characteristics are novelty, in the form of new species combinations and the potential for changes in ecosystem functioning, and human agency, in that these ecosystems are the result of deliberate or inadvertent human action.â Richard J. Hobbs, et al Building on unstructured time provided to the artists on Friday, small groups in atypical combinations consider, debate, refute and enact fallow time. Events take place in two different ecosystems: an indoor studio, The Border, and outdoors at an open lot. Visit the blog for more information, see below.* participants: Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani / Buscada, Mariana Castañeda-Lopez, Wendell Cooper | Complex Stability, wanda gala, Luke George, Rena Mande, Jan Mun, Jill Slater, Andres Toro, Adaku Utah, Melissa West and others. 1 Grattan Street studio 221 [indoors] 311 Melrose Street [outdoors] Brooklyn
June 2
Spring Festival
Performances by Ellen Fisher, Sondra Loring and Pile of Shit: excrement from the festival activities, what remains, what smells and what evolves.
June 2
MR Spring Festival: fallow time-humanure
Judson Church, 8:00 pm
55 Washington Square South
New York, NY
FREE
humanure Judson Church Humanure 8pm Free Performances by Ellen Fisher, Sondra Loring and Pile of Shit: excrement from the festival activities, what remains, what smells and what evolves. 55 Washington Square South Manhattan
May 11
OPENING
Sunny Jain, Malcolm Low / Formal Structure, Okwui Okpokwasili, Patricia Noworol Dance Theater
May 12
Spring Festival: Placing Performance
Moderated by Sarah Maxfield
Panelists: AUNTS, Megan Bridge, and others.
Gibney Dance at 890 Broadway, 6:15 pm
890 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
What words do we use, arrange, invent, and discover to talk about the particular communicative power of performance work? How does geographic location and environment influence the creation, languaging, and understanding of dance and performance? How do digital/ virtual sites affect the consumption of dance as a living, complex, emotionally dense form? Join Sarah Maxfield, AUNTS, Megan Bridge, and the co-curators of the 2015 MR Spring Festival for an intimate conversation about locality, environmental and digital influence, and curatorial process. Part of Movement Research Festival Spring 2015: LEGIBLE/ILLEGIBLE.
May 14
Spring Festival: Freedom Station (Kid Friendly)
Prospect Park, 2:00 pm
Southern end of the long medow
Brooklyn, NY
The artist/parent: conundrum or harmony? Bring blankets, bring the little ones, take a break from the binaries to share conversation about finding balance in the roles of artist and parent, and more broadly about the integration of art and life practice...as we simply enjoy a day outside together with our kids! Part of Movement Research Festival Spring 2015: LEGIBLE/ILLEGIBLE.
November 30
FESTIVAL | a dialectic of dark and light
Opening night Movement Research Festival Fall 2015 featuring Jaamil Olawale Kosoko in collaboration with Brenda Dixon-Gottschild, Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste
June 6
Movement Research at the Judson Church
Justin Cabrillos, Anna Carapetyan, Ayano Elson, Marguerite Hemmings, Michael Mahalchick, Sarah Maxfield, BASHIR DAVIID NAIM, Marissa Perel, Randy Reyes, Julia Santoli, Lily Bo Shapiro, Anna Adams Stark
June 7
Festival Studies Project: PASSAGE
Festival Curated by Aretha Aoki, Elliott Jenetopulos, Eleanor Smith and Tara Aisha Willis
Moderated by Risa Shoup with panelists Anna Carapetyan, devynn emory, Robert Kocik, and iele paloumpis.
Gibney Dance at 890 Broadway, 6:30 pm
890 Broadway, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
This Studies Project will bring together dance artists who also work in the field of care-giving: end-of-life, beginning-of-life, navigators of illness and wellness. Why do many dancers become doulas? What is the overlap between guiding bodies through the cycles of life, and guiding bodies through space? What is it that draws dance artists to this profession? How do we acknowledge the specific needs of different communities and that all care is not equal/universal?
- * 2013 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence
- ** 2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence
- • MRX/Not Festival
- † With support from Austrian Cultural Forum New York
