Movement Research: Moving right along...but carefully!

Post-Sandy, the intrepid Movement Research folks have postponed their Studies Project event, Jill Johnston and the Critic as Subject, originally scheduled for this afternoon at The New Museum. However, the following events are still on:

• Studies Projects
  November 5, 6:30 pm
  Movement Research Town Hall Meeting
• Studies Projects
  November 6, 6:45 pm
  JUDSON THROUGH THE EYES OF FILMMAKERS
  $10; $8 students/seniors/Friends of MR; $6 Anthology Members
  MR in Partnership with Anthology Film Archives

For complete details on these and other Movement Research programs, click here.

Honoring dance critic Jill Johnston

The New Museum

in conjunction with

Rethinking the Imprint of Judson Dance Theater Fifty Years Later: Movement Research in Residence

presents

“Talking about my generation”: 

Jill Johnston and the Critic as Subject

Critical Correspondence co-editors Aaron Mattocks and Marissa Perel honor the celebrated writer and critic Jill Johnston, whose experimental and personal voice communicated the culture of the interdisciplinary 1960s art scene. In light of Johnston’s innovative contributions to the form, this conversation considers contemporary criticism and the writer as subject. Speakers include David Velasco (critic for Artforum) and Claudia La Rocco (critic for the New York Times). The event culminates as Movement Research artists perform readings of reviews on dance and performance.

Readers:

Thom Donovan
Ariel Goldberg
Cassie Petersen
Christine Shan Shan Hou

Sunday, November 4 (3pm)
Admission: $8 (general public) $6 (museum members)
1/2 gallery admission with same-day event ticket purchase

Information

New Museum
235 Bowery Street, Manhattan
(map/directions/visitors information)

Memorial service for Jill Johnston (1929-2010)

There will be a celebration of writer/activist Jill Johnston's life and work on Saturday, January 29 (1pm-5pm) at Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, Manhattan.

Johnston comes on like a flood, vivacious, mile-a-minute, with an uncontrollable eloquence. -- New York Review of Books

Jill Johnston, 81

Jill Johnston, Critic Who Wrote 'Lesbian Nation,' Dies at 81
by William Grimes, The New York Times, September 21, 2010

Georgianna Nienaber reflects on Jill Johnston (Huffington Post, September 20, 2010)

Jill Johnston Web site and biography

Bon Voyage to Jilly by Ingrid Nyeboe