A video tribute to dance artist Jennifer Monson

Jennifer Monson Tribute Video, Movement Research Gala 2013 from movement research on Vimeo.
2013 Movement Research Honoree Jennifer Monson

Audio interviews: DD Dorvillier, Pooh Kaye, Alejandra Martorell, Cathy Weis, Jeremy Nelson

Written Quote: Yvonne Meier

Photos by Tom Brazil and Henry Hills; and courtesy of Pooh Kaye, Jennifer Monson and Jeremy Nelson

Video footage: "Zeena Parkins and Jennifer Monson at the Clocktower, July 2011" with videography by Ryutaro Ishikane and courtesy of Jennifer Monson and iLAND - interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance; "Jennifer Solo - Cape Cod" from Live Dancing Archive and "14 Street Migration" (2001 and 2002) from the BIRD BRAIN project, courtesy of Robin Vachal; "Trash Can Study" (1983) courtesy of Pooh Kaye; "Mad Heidi" (2005) courtesy of Yvonne Meier; "String of Lies" (1995) courtesy of Cathy Weis; and "RMW(a)" (2007) and "Yvonne Meier and Jennifer Monson" (2010) courtesy of Movement Research

Music: Zeena Parkins, Orra

Video Production: Catherine Galasso and Rosalie Elkinton

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Silvers and friends advance feminism

For the closing performance event of the Advancing Feminist Poetics and Activism Conference at CUNY, Sally Silvers will be improvising, creating a live choreography event and collaborating with very special guests:

Alejandra Martorell (dancer)

Peter Sciscioli (dancer)

Julie Patton (poet/vocalist/performance artist)

Marina Rosenfeld (live electronics)

Silvers writes:

"I will be choreographing/directing Alejandra and Peter in a gender focused phrase that I will make live and on the spot as if we are meeting in the rehearsal studio for the first time.

"Marina and Julie will be commenting--musically, vocally--to the development of the choreography as well as interacting with me improvising while the dancers are working things out.

"There are three other poetry, theater, music groups on the program and our group will be going second."

Friday, September 25, 6:30-8:30pm
All events are free and open to the public.

CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall
365 Fifth Avenue (34-35 Streets)

For full conference details, visit the following sites:

http://www.belladonnaseries.org/adfempobios.html
http://www.belladonnaseries.org/adfemposchedule.html

HERE's "Bearshow"

The cozy and blessedly air-conditioned HERE Arts Center in Soho is presenting Johanna S. Meyer’s Bearshow for one more night as part of The American Living Room annual festival of emerging arts. Bearshow is described as a “humorous and allusive work that explores images of real women, from courtesans to movie stars, while focusing on the Roman myth of the Big Dipper, in which a jealous god’s wife turns his mistress into a bear.” Sandwiched between two brief one-act plays, this avant-garde duet of poetic scrambles and nonsequitors features absorbed and absorbing performances by fake-fur-clad Alejandra Martorell and Jennifer Monson, both looking as scrubbed down and down-to-earth as can be, a few indicators of the trappings of lust and luxury notwithstanding. Watching them wind their way through this dance is like linking all the stars in a constellation.

Despite New York’s rain-wracked transit troubles, the theater was packed, and seats might be once again hard to get this evening. Call 212-352-3101 after 4pm today or click HERE.