Take in the trash?

New York Times dance writer Roslyn Sulcas tells us that John Jasperse has taken to rummaging through garbage. Read Milk Crates in the Service of Low-Budget Commentary (October 31, 2007).

Dancer artist Jill Sigman announces a new workshop

MOVEMENT & THEATER: The Micro-Frontier
For the past 10 years I have been developing a specific improvisational practice based on the way subtle skeletal shifts make for big changes in what we perceive as character. This 3 hour workshop will explore the micro-frontier where physical questions, movement puzzles, and fine-grained improvisation shade into theater

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11th

2-5PM

Special Introductory Fee: $20
Space is extremely limited! Registration required.

Please RSVP to:

thinkdance@attglobal.net or 212/865 2568

(The studio is just steps away from the Morgan Ave. stop on the L train. Upon registering we will send you directions.)

Stay tuned for news of other workshops or email us to let us know what kinds of explorations you're interested in!

Bill T. Jones to commemorate Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial

A new work by dancer-choreographer Bill T. Jones, commissioned by the Ravinia Festival of Illinois, will commemorate the 2009 bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln. Read the story here.

Movement Research announces Open Call for Open Performance

Movement Research announces its Open Call for Open Performance Winter/Spring 08

what is open performance:

A program of non-curated shared evenings of experimentation and work-in-progress, for artists at all stages of their development. The events include an audience discussion moderated by a Movement Research Artist-In-Residence, engaging different feedback methods to support and inform the artists' process.

how to participate:

Artist participation is free and on a first-contact, first-programmed basis.

Dates available are:
March 4th
March 18th
April 1st
April 15th
April 29th
May 13th
May 27th
June 10th
Please note dates fill up very quickly once they're announced.

Open Performance always falls on Tuesday, begins at 7pm, and is held at Dance Theater Workshop, 3rd Floor studio.

To participate, send an email to openperform@movementresearch.org including your name, contact information, and the dates you are available to present in order of preference.

You can also leave messages for Bessie, Open Performance Coordinator, at 212-598-0551, ext. 3 if you have any questions or concerns.

Please note: all sign-up is by email only, phone calls will not be considered as submissions.

Participants and schedule will be announced no later than Monday, Nov. 12, 2007.

Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography

Check out these brief video visits with dance artists--such as Miguel Gutierrez and Yanira Castro--who have participated in the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography fellowships and international exchange residency programs at Florida State University.

MANCC also has a couple of podcast interviews, downloadable through iTunes: Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, Artistic Director of Urban Bush Women, interviewed by UBW dancer and recent Bessie Award winner Nora Chipaumire, and Germaine Acogny, Artistic Director of JANT-BI, interviewed by UBW dancer Catherine Denecy on their companies' collaborative work, Scales of Memory, which will receive its premiere in 2008.

Dancer-choreographer/video artist Dean Moss will be the first artist to receive commissioning and presentational support in MANCC's new partnership initiative with Dance Theater Workshop. Read the full announcement here.

While I was away...

I'm back from Italy and very jet-lagged and busy. So InfiniteBody will take a bit of a while to get up to speed. In the meantime, if you missed my Intermission message at Body and Soul podcast, please have a listen now. Thanks!

Body knowledge

"When you're using reason, the world is distant, seemingly objective, and is upheld by your thoughts about the world. When you use your body, you feel connected, you sense your relationship and you have a knowing, beyond thoughts, that you're part of the world. This is body knowledge."

Ken Eagle Feather (from Toltec Dreaming, Bear & Company, 2007)