Movement Research Studies Project studies curation, inclusion, community

Studies Project: Let Me In Let Me In Or I'll Blow This House DownCurators on Process and the Matter of Inclusion

Moderated by Juliette Mapp and Jen Rosenblit

Josie's
520 East 6th Street (between Avenues A and B), Manhattan

FREE

To feel a part of something. Communal, to have community. To be asked, invited in, to ask to be invited in. Access, entry. While the role of curator and the process of curation holds as much artistry as the making of dance and performance, we hone in on an equally important need for a touch of transparency surrounding the presentation of dance and the body. What issues and concerns arise inside of a shifting community where representation is crucial for belonging and sustainable support? What are we doing to reach out to more artists? Where are those artists? Who are those artists? What are the complexities that arise while supporting the sustainability of an artist? What responsibility do we have to an idea of cultivating and supporting "newness"? Where is the body inside all of this? How do we digest being on the inside or outside of something spiritually, aesthetically, emotionally and academically?

Participants include:

Ben Pryor (American Realness) 

Laurie Berg and Liliana Dirks-Goodman (AUNTS)

Rebecca Brooks

Barbara Bryan

Matthew Lyons (The Kitchen)

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.

A conversation: dance and consciousness

Movement Research's
Studies Project series
presents

Dance and Consciousness

A conversation among choreographers, philosophers and performers on the nature of consciousness and how dance as an artistic practice acts as experiential research into this fundamentally human yet indeterminate and far-ranging territory. In addition to gathering different perspectives on the subject, some questions will be considered: How does dance affect current philosophical thinking on consciousness? How do choreographers and performers engage with theory on the subject? How have personal experiences and artistic practices contributed to private and collective understanding and development of consciousness? How can these experiences enter into broader discourse on the subject?

Participants in this conversation include Alva Noë (philosopher and author of Out of Our Heads), Michelle Boulé (dance artist), Miguel Gutierrez (choreographer), RoseAnne Spradlin (choreographer), and others. Conceived of and moderated by Vanessa Justice. Thanks to Gibney Dance Center for the donation of space.

Free. Reservations not necessary.

Thursday, October 6, 6pm 

Gibney Dance Center
890 Broadway, 5th Floor, Studio 4
(between 20th and 21st Streets, Manhattan)
 
Movement Research

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.