Issue #51 of Movement Research Performance Journal continues to experiment with approaches to engaging with contemporary performance through the medium of print. This issue of the MRPJ offers original textual explorations of ideas, as well as photo essays and visual experiments that present options for how we consider the place of dance in the contemporary moment.

Functioning as an object that is both form and content, the front and back covers of Issue #51 feature images of Elizabeth Garren, Wendy Perron and Mona Sulzman dancing Splang in Trisha Brown’s loft in 1978. The photos were taken by a teenage Christopher Rauschenberg, son of Robert Rauschenberg. Beautifully awkward and intimately captured, these photographs show something of the movement research that preceded what is now recognized as Brown’s form and language. The images frame this issue and speak to what’s loosely shared among the work in this issue: a reflective memorial portfolio on Brown’s life and work, edited by Iréne Hultman, and a collection of dense and speculative texts edited by Mårten Spångberg that address “movement research” — the topic, rather than the organization….

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Contents

  • 2 Letter from the Editor Moriah Evans
  • 6 I love Movement Research Mårten Spångberg
  • 10 Twelve Rules to put Thought in Motion Tristan Garcia
  • 14 From the Sad Body to the Moving Body Nina Power
  • 26 The Ceremony of Us in the Legacy of We Sri Louise
  • 36 Imagining and Feigning Bojana Cvejić
  • 48 The Moment Before Mette Edvardsen
  • 54 Learning to Derive Yves Citton
  • 70 Effing the Ineffable Eleanor Bauer
  • 84 The Bodies in Sade's Dream Austin Gross
  • 94 Relations of Unpredictable Encounters Nikima Jagudajev
  • 104 Never Stop Dancing Ingrid Luquet-Gad
  • 112 Gravity Anne Juren
  • 120 The Movement as Living Non-Body Daniel Blanga Gubbay
  • 130 Not-Knowing: Mobility as a State of Unrest Alice Chauchat
  • 140 Vibration Spasm Reactivation Franco Bifo Berardi
  • 150 Movement Research as a Performance Practice Ana Vujanović w/ Ellen Söderhult
  • 160 Dance and Philosohy Graham Harman
  • PORTFOLIO
  • 03 Trish the Explorer Iréne Hultman
  • 07 A Body in the History Jean-Marc Adolphe
  • 10 Archiving the Gesture Cori Olinghouse
  • 12 Trisha is my Shepherd; I shall not want... Christopher-Rasheem McMillan
  • 13 Trisha's Wavelength Denise Luccioni
  • 16 Reflections Christopher Rauschenberg, Wendy Perron, Nina Lundborg, Stephen Petronio, Vicky Shick, Lance Gries, Shelley Senter, David Thomson, Brandi Norton, Stacy Matthew Spence, Lawrence Stone, Jodi Melnick, Todd Lawrence Stone, Neal Beasley, Judith Sanchez Ruiz, Laurel Jenkins, Dai Jian
  • 22 List of Works and Collaborators
  • 23 Micro-Rhythms and Mini-Dramas Iréne Hultman, Susan Rosenberg and Vicky Shick
  • 31 Inside, Between, Beyond Ursula Eagly
  • 31 Excerpts from the Black Dancing Body Brenda Dixon Gottschild
  • 32 Meeting Points:Dava, Jasmine, Leslie, Solange, Trisha Leslie Cuyjet, Davalois Fearon, Jasmine Hearn
  • 34 A Fond Memoir with Sundry Reflections on a Friend and her Art Yvonne Rainer
  • 38 Trisha Brown's Orfeo Peggy Phelan
  • ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS
  • This issue features a selection of photos of book covers selected by artist Jennifer Lacey.
  • The cover and portfolio feature photographs by Christopher Rauschenberg, Johan Elbers, Babette Mangolte, Mark Hanauer, Nathaniel Tileston, Patrick Benjard, Tristan Vales, Christiane Robin, Nancy Tutko, Guy Delahaye, and Jack Mitchell.
  • Dispersed throughout the portfolio are a collection of memories of Trisha Brown in the form of one image, contributed by Hope Mohr, Tara Lorenzen, Dorothée Alémany, Leah Morrison, Eva Karczag, Shelley Senter, Mindy Myers, Keith Thompson, Kelly McDonald, Kathleen Fisher, Dai Jian, Lance Gries, Trish Oesterling, Brandi Norton, Denise Luccioni, and Stacy Spence.

Editorial team

Moriah Evans
Editor-in-Chief
Lauren Bakst
Managing Editor
Yotam Hadar & Sean Yendrys
Graphic Design
Tom Jacobs
Copy Editor
Mårten Spångberg
Issue Editor
Iréne Hultman with Lauren Bakst and Jaime Shearn Coan
Portfolio Editors
Sarah Discours
Portfolio Design Assistance
Joanna Warren
Ad Layout
Jessica Lam, Alexa West
Interns
Ursula Eagly, Matthew Lyons, Buck Wanner, Tara Willis
Contributing Editors
Linco Printing, Inc.
Printing
Eleanor Bauer, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Katie Glasner, Diane Madden, Barbara Dufty, Babette Mangolte, Sarah Michelson, Barbara Bryan, Artist Summit
Special Thanks