Movement Research Studies Project, "Vulnerable Bodies and the Embodiment of Resistance"Conceived by 2012 Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Cristiane Bouger (Brazil/USA)With panelists Dominika Laster (Poland/USA), Mariangela Lopez (Venezuela/USA), Marcos Steurnagel (Brazil/USA), and Tan Temel (Turkey) Drawing from artistic practices that reveal or subvert the strenuous adversity of social control, this panel aims to address a myriad of perspectives on the embodiment of political resistance. A...
Jul 08, 2015•1 hr 59 min
Movement Research Spring Festival, iLand SymposiumSensing to Know / Analyzing to ImagineModerated by Jennifer MonsonWith participants Amy Berkov, Kathleen McCarthy, Jason Munshi, Hara Woltz iLAND SYMPOSIUM Sensing to Know /Analyzing to Imagine was a talk and walk exploring the dual perspective of the artist-scientist. Visual, aural and kinesthetic modes in science and art were explored by participants who have experience as both scientists and artists. The first hour was dedicated to discussing ...
Jul 07, 2015•1 hr 25 min
Movement Research Studies Project: Artists in K-12 Schools Conceived and moderated by Diana Crum With panelists Lynn Brown, Donna Costello, Randy Luna, Jessica Nicoll, Jules Skloot What is the role of the dance teaching artist in schools? Many artists make a living by teaching grades K-12 in the NYC school system. Is their goal to share their artistic practice, the ideology behind their aesthetic, tools for making art, historical reference points, movement skills, or something else? Experienced ...
Jun 09, 2015•1 hr 28 min
Movement Research Studies Project: Dance and Publish March 3, 2015 Hosted by Moriah Evans, Editor-in-chief, The Movement Research Performance Journal Biba Bell and Will Rawls, co-Editors, Critical Correspondence As MR's two publications - the Performance Journal (semi-annual print edition) and Critical Correspondence (monthly web edition) - move into their respective 3rd and 2nd decades, the editorial teams hoped to enter into a more robust dialogue with their colleagues in the field. The event ...
Jun 09, 2015•47 min
Movement Research Studies Project: being a body out loud April 7, 2015 Conceived by Ni'Ja Whitson Adebanjo, Edisa Weeks and Tara Aisha Willis With panelists Allison Joy, Jumatatu R. Poe and Social Health Performance Club Living in a body that shouts through the underbelly, a protested or protesting body, a black body, a body of the multitudes, a body of color, a body no one believes, a body of rage or exhaustion, a body on the ground outlined in chalk. Our current moment's choreographies and voc...
Jun 09, 2015•1 hr 48 min
Movement Research Studies Project, "Dance and Labor" April 29, 2015 Organized in dialogue with Movement Research, luciana achugar, Abigail Levine and Kathy Westwater With panelists David Thomson and Yve Laris Cohen How is dance labor valued? How has it been valued? How might it be? And how can we affect the value assigned to this labor? These questions were considered across a spectrum of contexts, including individual and institutional, organized and spontaneous, and historical and anecdotal to...
Jun 09, 2015•1 hr 45 min
Town Hall Meeting Movement Research at Eden's Expressway, October 6, 2014. Co-Hosted and organized by the Movement Research Artist Advisory Council Moderated by Laurie Berg, Maura Donohue and Kathy Westwater The Movement Research Artist Advisory Council (AAC) facilitated a public discussion by sharing excerpts and quotes of meeting minutes to spark conversation and invite the public into its ongoing conversation, including threads related to economics, politics, aesthetics and creativity. This m...
Apr 01, 2015•1 hr 35 min
This is a Movement Research Studies Project: New Models for Presenting Dance in the 21st Century February 4, 2014 at Gibney Dance Center 890 Broadway with panelists Travis Chamberlain from the New Museum, Brian Rogers from the Chocolate Factory, Sally Silvers from Roulette, and Lucien Zayan from The Invisible Dog. New Models for Presenting Dance discussed the dynamic shift the landscape of dance presentation in NYC has undergone over the last five years. New spaces for showing work have opened, ...
Feb 19, 2015•1 hr 59 min
This is a Movement Research Studies Project: FOR WHAT Moderated by Ursula Eagly with panelists Morgan Bassichis, Justine Lynch, Melanie Maar, Clarinda Mac Low, Alta Starr and Marýa Wethers December 2, 2014 at Gibney Dance Center 890 Broadway as part of the Movement Research Festival Fall 2014: MATTERING co-curated by Rebecca Brooks and Daria Faïn in conversation with Shelley Senter FOR WHAT was a discussion led by panelists who enjoy multi-faceted engagement with the cultural field, including he...
Feb 17, 2015•1 hr 35 min
This is a Movement Research Studies Project: The Role of Class in Current Dance Practices Conceived in conversation with Movement Research Faculty January 20, 2015 at Gibney Dance Center 890 Broadway organized by Movement Research in collaboration with Beth Gill, Lance Gries, Eva Karczag and Gwen Welliver The Role of Class was a series of brief and intimate discussions with various teaching artists including Julian Barnett, Michelle Boulé, Wendell Cooper, Jeanine Durning, Barbara Forbes, Zvi Got...
Feb 12, 2015•1 hr 33 min
This is Movement Research Studies Project: Dance and Music Now With Panelists: Douglas Dunn & Steven Taylor, Melanie Maar & Kenta Nagai, Edisa Weeks & Katie Down October 7, 2014 at Gibney Dance Center 890 Broadway proposed and moderated by Philip Ellis Foster Musicians and dancers have a long and storied relationship with one another, from traditional forms that wed music and dance to narrative storytelling, to orchestral ballets, and on to Cage and Cunningham collaborations. This ev...
Dec 18, 2014•1 hr 25 min
This is a Movement Research Studies Project: Evolving Dance Pedagogies With Panelists: Maura Donohue (Hunter College), Simon Dove (formerly of Arizona State University), Neil Greenberg (New School), Patricia Hoffbauer (Hunter College, Princeton University) and Mariah Maloney (SUNY Brockport) March 4, 2014 at Gibney Dance Center hosted by Critical Correspondence This conversation between professors from a variety of university dance departments addressed the changing relationship between their pr...
Mar 07, 2014•1 hr 59 min
Movement Research Studies Project: We Came To This City To Shit On A Stage Adrienne Truscott With Panelists: Sara Beesley of Joe's Pub, Eric Dyer of Radiohole, Vallejo Gantner of PS122, performer/choreographer/curator Colin Self, and choreographer/performer Gillian Walsh. Gibney Dance Center, December 3, 2013 as part of the Movement Research Festival Fall 2013 “Le Song, Ya?!” curated by Adrienne Truscott and Jibz Cameron aka Dynasty Handbag The conversation revolved around the following question...
Mar 07, 2014•1 hr 39 min
Movement Research Festival Fall 2013 Studies Project: Performing Vulnerability Adrienne Truscott with panelists: niv Acosta, Ben Asriel, Hilary Clark, Miguel Gutierrez and Juliana May Jimmy's 43, December 4, 2013 as part of Movement Research's Festival Fall 2013 "Le Song, Ya?!" curated by Adrienne Truscott and Jibz Cameron (Dynasty Handbag) This Studies Project revolved around the questions: What does it mean to be vulnerable in performance? Is vulnerability a state or can it be "done?" Note: At...
Feb 26, 2014•1 hr 38 min
2013 Movement Research Studies Project: Vulnerable Systems: Moving Beyond Sustainability Jennifer Monson and Movement Research Gibney Dance Center, November 5, 2013 This Studies Project discussed how the reality of climate change has brought an increased awareness around the fragility of our environment and a heightened interest in sustainable practices. How do we move beyond sustainability towards resiliency, a term currently in broad use in the social sciences? How do we address the current cr...
Feb 18, 2014•1 hr 15 min
Part 2 of the 2013 Movement Research Studies Project: Dramaturgy as Practice/Dramaturgy in Practice, Amanda Loulaki and Susan Mar Landau Gibney Dance Center, October 1, 2013 with Panelists: Annie Dorsen, Katherine Profeta, David Thomson, Talvin Wilks, Susan Mar Landau, and Vanessa Anspaugh This Studies Project Discusses the relatively new and evolving phenomenon of a dramaturg as an active participant in the conceiving and making of movement-based works. Conceived as a two-part event, Dramaturgy...
Jan 23, 2014•1 hr 40 min
Town Hall Meeting With Speakers Walter Dundervill, Marjani Forte, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Melinda Ring Gibney Dance Center, November 25, 2013. This meeting looked into Movement Research’s existence as a theoretical model of openness and experimentation, and the fact that Movement Research doesn’t dictate but rather creates a space in which to follow one’s own intention or aesthetic. Speakers and guests questioned what shifts have occurred in the role MR plays for us as dance artists and in th...
Dec 10, 2013•1 hr 51 min
Town Hall Follow-Up: Alternative Economies Moderated by Kathy Westwater With panelists Tamara Greenfield, Ilona Bito and more. Josie's, June 25, 2013. This is a Movement Research Studies Project: “Town Hall Follow-Up: Alternative Economies,” moderated by Kathy Westwater and including panelists, Ilona Bito, Liliana Dirks-Goodman, and Tamara Greenfield. This event took place June 25, 2013 at Josie’s. In a follow-up discussion to the 2012 Movement Research Town Hall, this conversation looked deeper...
Sep 20, 2013•1 hr 26 min
Peter Sellars and Faustin Linyekula Dialogue September 17, 2012 French Institute Alliance Française Dialogue moderated by Barbara Bryan and Simon Dove In partnership with Crossing the Line Festival, and copresented by the Museum for African Art Friends and artistic collaborators, director and choreographer Faustin Linyekula and stage director Peter Sellars come together on the first anniversary of Occupy Wall Street to speak about each other’s work and the power of the arts as an agent for socia...
Aug 12, 2013•1 hr 40 min
Performing the Changing CityOrganized by Abigail Levine and Paloma McGregorWith panelists luciana achugar, Randy Martin, Jenny Romaine, and Niegel SmithHemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, March 19, 2013. "...careening astronauts and bank clerks glancing at the clock before lunch; actresses cowling at light-ringed mirrors and freight elevator operators grinding a thumbful of grease on a steel handle: student riots; that dark women in bodegas shook their heads last week because in s...
Jul 31, 2013•1 hr 40 min
