Dance and the Occupy Movement

Movement Research presents

Dance and the Occupy Movement

Wednesday, January 25 (7:30pm)

Organized by Abigail Levine

Jimmy's no. 43, in the backroom
43 East 7th Street
between 2nd Avenue and Bowery, Manhattan
(directions)

Exploring an expanded notion of choreography and how it is related to our social and political organization and discovery of ourselves as individuals working within a temporary collective...circling and questioning around ideas of a moving community.

--Movement Research Festival Spring 2011 brochure

Exercise your right to peaceably assemble; occupy public space; create a process to address the problems we face, and generate solutions accessible to everyone.

--Declaration of the Occupation, NYC General Assembly

What are the points of contact between experimental, contemporary dance and the Occupy Movement? As spatial and embodied practice? As social investigation and organization? As improvisation and movement? As agents of change? How do and might these moving communities interact? How do we approach (public and private) space in New York City? Barbara Browning, Daniel Lang-Levitsky, Paloma McGregor, Clarinda Mac Low, and Edisa Weeks open a conversation about this creative political moment.

OWS: DYKE CHECK!

Folks, I'm not sure if this is any kind of official Occupy event--or if there is any such animal--but it sure looks promising, and I love the name!

DYKE CHECK!

Queer Takes on The Revolution

at Dixon Place

Wednesday, December 7 (7:30pm-8:30pm)

$-this is a pass-the-hat situation

brainstormed by: t.l. cowan, jasmine rault, susana cook, ted kerr

featuring: excellent talent

Dyke Check! Because social justice is fabulous. Change is queer. And we've been making activism sexy for years and years.

Join us for DYKE CHECK! a quasi-monthly series of queer-minded curated short performances, readings, glitterings, cruisings and conversations that celebrate our revolutionary heritage, exploit our knack for destablization and showcase our role in the revolution.

The future is queer. The future is now. Welcome.

For more information, click to email Tedd Kerr or T.L. Cowan.

Dixon Place

161a Chrystie Street, Manhattan

(map/directions)

OWS: Walk + Whisper with Haenggi

This just in from dance and visual artist Andrea Haenggi:

COME JOIN THE ACTION, AN EXPERIMENT IN NEW TACTICS --
A NEW WAY OF WALKING IN SUPPORT OF PEOPLE’S OUTRAGE BECAUSE

No one ever asked us if we want a person brutally arrested simply for saying no to greed.No one ever asked us if we want a person to be thrown in jail just  for not carrying an ID.No one ever asked us if we want a person who walks a dog in a park after dark to get a Criminal summons.

Saturday, December 3, 1pm

MEET AT COLUMBUS PARK ON BAXTER STREET ACROSS FROM THE REAR ENTRANCE OF THE MANHATTAN CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING.

GATHERING to give each participant the  “ACT OF WALKING SLOWLY  + WHISPERING ” Action Score Instruction

ACTION BEGINS with a “non-linear“ individually tailored walking formation around the Criminal Court Building.

The Act of Walking Slowly:  We will take one hour to make one circle around the criminal court building at 100 Centre Street.

The Act of Walking Slowly reflects on the helpless feeling of being a victim of circumstances and the meditative state that saves us.

In this non-violent journey, we become a community of “IndividualUnity” and search for social change through physical presence.

Thanks for letting us know if you will join us or for more information, contact andrea@amdat.org or squattercity@yahoo.com.

OWS: Now let's Occupy Broadway!

"They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, but looking at them just gives me the blues..."

Okay, now for a little something to cheer me up:

Gathering the Arts & Culture working group (c)2011, Eva Yaa Asantewaa

Occupy Broadway

Occupy the theatre/shopping district 

with performance and spectacle for 24 hours straight!

December 2nd starting at 6pm until December 3rd at 6pm

Occupy Broadway will introduce tourists and New Yorkers uptown going to Broadway shows or shopping themselves into debt in Times Square to the idea of occupation as CREATIVE resistance with non-stop free performances.  We will set up in a privately owned public space near Times Square.  This movement is spreading around the world and around New York City.  In a time when downtown theaters are rapidly losing their spaces, being turned into high-end fashion stores, it is a symbolic attempt to regain the space of theatre as an accessible, popular art form, bringing it back to where it all started - in a public space, for the common citizen.

How you can get involved

The organizers are looking for groups in all styles and genres, to present a segment (2 minutes to 2 hours long) that has a theme of the 99% movement, possibly holiday-related, festive, radical caroling, large puppets, marching bands, dance, etc.

Also, visit this link for an online petition that explains the context of this (and future) events.

OWS: Long live The People's Library!

The People's Library of Occupy Wall Street Lives On
by William Scott, The Nation, November 22, 2011

OWS: Occupy The Walls!

OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show

Call to Participate

AC Institute Art Gallery
547 West 27th Street, #610, Manhattan
(map/directions)

Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned  artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week. In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (date to be announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.

Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright

You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7, between 1pm and 6pm.
Work may be mailed to the AC Institute or sent in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received no later than Wednesday, December 7.
The committee reserves the right to disqualify submissions.

Link to original Facebook announcement

OWS: The '60s are back!

Adbusters poster

Hurray for folkies David Crosby and Graham Nash (of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, now Crosby, Stills & Nash, for those of you too young to know)!

The two Rock and Roll Hall of Famers will give an acoustic concert of protest songs at Zuccotti Park, the site of Occupy Wall Street (Broadway and Liberty Street, Manhattan). Drop by at 3pm!