Investigating improv

Studies Project Inter-Generational Exchange in Improvisational Practice

Sunday June 13, 5:30 pm

at La MaMa E.T.C.
74A East 4th St.
(between 2nd and 3rd Avenues)

FREE

This Studies Project, in partnership with La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival
(June 8-27), will uncover lineages of improvisational practices. Curators Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones will instigate a discussion amongst pioneers of improvisation in dance, as well as contemporary artists who are practicing investigations within the larger context of improvisation. The event will also include dancing to a score developed by Yvonne Meier and Ishmael Houston-Jones.

Panelists: Paul Langland, Daniel Lepkoff, Jennifer Monson

Moderator: Danielle Goldman

Dancers: Maggie Bennett, Daniel Clifton, Jonathan Kinzel, Daniel Lepkoff, Paul Langland, Melanie Maar, Jennifer Monson, Yina Ng, Arturo Vidich and Anthony Whitehurst

Initiated by Nicky Paraiso, Co-Curator, La MaMa E.T.C.