MELT–The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this workshop we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one ...

iLand: Feedback & Final Impressions from Biba Bell

Thinking about sound and movement: Often times when I'm dancing I experience this sense of conversation, of  dialogue -- drawing me into the moment, the space, relationships, etc.  Working on the iLa...

Responses: The Sixth Borough

by Jonah Bokaer The first thing I hear after exiting the building is a loud police siren. The Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia is closing down for the day, and I'm lugging a bunch of pro...

iLand: First Dialogue

iLAB Collaborative Residency  Q1: What is your starting point? Michelle: Hope emailed me. The series of questions Hope sent me was a starting point. There are ideas in this that I have been thinkin...

Alyssa Gersony in conversation with Simon Dove, former Director of the School of Dance at ASU

Alyssa Gersony: Dance 2050 in 2013 was a follow up symposium held at the end of May at SUNY Brockport to continue the conversations that started at the first Dance 2050 which was held in May of last y...

Simone Forti in Conversation with Jennie Goldstein

Jennie Goldstein: Hello, Simone. Let’s talk a little bit about your upcoming retrospective, Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion, which opens on July 18 at the Museum der Mo...

Simone Forti in Conversation with Jennie Goldstein

Jennie Goldstein: Hello, Simone. Let’s talk a little bit about your upcoming retrospective, Simone Forti. Thinking with the Body: A Retrospective in Motion, which opens on July 18 at the Museum der Mo...

Some Thoughts on Capital-D Dance

I frequently think about how to dance, how I choose to dance, how we choose to dance. I think about how my body is feeling, what I’ve trained it to do, why. I think about the privilege, the hours spen...

Rosie Herrera in conversation with Celeste Fraser Delgado

Celeste Fraser Delgado: Rosie, you’re from a place called Hialeah, can you tell us about Hialeah and how it has shaped your work? Rosie Herrera: I always answer this by saying that I’m not just from H...

Bill T. Jones in conversation with Guy Yarden

Download this interview as PDF Guy Yarden: I listened to the podcast that you have online about Blind Date… Bill T. Jones: …which is a bit outdated now, but… GY: …and I thought what we could do was to...

The Sounding Body

The Sounding Body is a series of weekly workshops investigating voice and movement. This series typically spans ten weeks, and takes place in both the Fall and Spring seasons. See below for more deta...

MELT Summer 2019

MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recogni...

[CANCELED] The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

This workshop is intended for anyone wanting to go sound exploring in search of their free, powerful and authentic voice. Using the principles of awareness and slowing down from the Alexander Techniqu...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

[email protected] – The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this class we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in-between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one app...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any creative background. My practice has emerged over the past decade in response to disconnects in my own body, mind and hea...

The Sounding Body: Gills and Bellows

How do the mechanics of my voice relate to a larger, muscular-skeletal form? We will investigate pitch, timbre and phonemic resonance as felt experiences, bringing this awareness to small, interactive...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

Voice as Movement uses an anatomical approach to the sounding body and explores movement and vocalizing as a means to expand perception and to activate space differently than movement alone. We will d...

The Sounding Body: Voice As Movement

Voice as Movement uses an anatomical approach to the sounding body and explores movement and vocalizing as a means to expand perception and to activate space differently than movement alone. We will d...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

How do the mechanics of my voice relate to a larger, muscular-skeletal form? In this approach we will use touch and imagery to investigate pitch, timbre and phonemic resonance as felt experiences.  We...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

Your voice mirrors the connection to your voice, body and truth.  This class in The Sounding Body series uses the principles of awareness and inhibition from the Alexander Technique as well as Somatic...

The Sounding Body: The Embodied Voice

This workshop is intended for anyone wanting to go sound exploring in search of their free, powerful and authentic voice. Using the principles of awareness and slowing down from the Alexander Techniqu...

The Sounding Body: Gills & Bellows

This workshop is for the physically attuned, sonically curious artist from any discipline. The practice has emerged over the past decade as a response to sensorial disconnects—between felt experiences...

The Sounding Body: Voice As Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

Dancing magic and politics

Research and play, dancing together, in collaboration. Shared experimental practice in the blessings and crises of social relationships. Through a range of activities we'll negotiate fake and real hea...

Tendings

Stephanie Heit and Petra Kuppers explore Olimpias scores and insights from Tendings, small everyday collaborative practices that combine experiential anatomy, disability culture, eco-specific investig...

Immediate minutes/ Minuets

A two-day workshop with Jennifer Monson We will start with performing instantaneous 2 minute dances for each other. Responding with various approaches to language – descriptive, poetic, non–verbal, st...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Vibration and Creation

This workshop is for humans who want to practice singing and embodied vocal improvisation as a path to being more joyful, empowered and free. Our attention is our most precious asset. How can we use m...

The Sounding Body: Speaking in Tongues

In this workshop we will work with breath, utterance, bodily tremors, and speaking in tongues. We will explore the in between place of speaking and not speaking, dancing and not dancing. How does one ...

The Sounding Body: Voice as Movement

This workshop is intended for anyone interested in exploring or using the voice as a practice and/or in performance. Each session includes a physical warm-up, tuning in to how we breathe and how breat...

The Sounding Body: Vocal Freedom

I offer a workshop around the use of the voice as a liberating music instrument. Voice as a tool to ground in ancestral practices as well as to explore societal and futurist narratives. Drawing from d...