Untitled - Movement Research

Movement Research Festival 2004: Improvisation Is Hard is a celebration of the spirit
of risk-taking and innovation that is so intrinsic to our city and community. It offers a
convergence and exchange between artists and audiences who are curious about work that
lives its process in performance, beyond the class and the studio. This two-week event is
the result of the collaborative efforts of a group of local dance artists who were passionate
about the future of Movement Research’s annual Improvisation Festival (IF/NY). Together
we decided to rename the festival: The Movement Research Festival, with the idea that
each year a new collective of artist-curators would determine the emphasis and shape of the
festival, reflecting the state of things in the moment, just like ... improvising.
Ticket Sales Information
• Danspace Project reservations:
www.danspaceproject.org
212-674-8194
Danspace Project accepts cash
or check; no credit cards
• PS 122 advance tickets:
www.ps122.org
212-477-5288
PS 122 accepts cash, Visa,
Mastercard, American Express
Tickets are available at the door for
each venue
All events OTHER than those at Danspace
and PS 122 are CASH ONLY at the door
Where noted, space is limited.
Arrive early!
For Festival information:
www.movementresearch.org
Movement Research hotline:
212-539-2611
Movement Research general line:
212-598-0551

Program Events
MONDAY, 11/29
Contact Jam
8:15pm–11:15pm, The Children’s Aid Society
$5
Opening Night
MC: Carla Peterson
• Heather Kravas and Tonja Livingstone
• Jonathan Kinzel
• Keith Hennessy
• Omyth Video by Foofwa D’Immobilite, Vincent
Bilotta and John Mussal
8pm, PS122, First Floor
$12
TUESDAY, 11/30
The Next Night
MC: Guy Yarden
• Scott Heron and Corey Dargel
• Marga Guergue and Hahn Rowe
• DD Dorvillier
• Shasta Cola
• Interference by Magnetic Laboratorium
8pm, PS122, First Floor
$12
WEDNESDAY, 12/1
Studies Project - The Space of Dance
The Movement Between Inner and Outer Landscapes
Moderator: Margit Galanter
Panelists: K.J. Holmes, Robert Kocik, Yvonne Meier,
DD Dorvillier and koosil-ja hwang
This Studies Project will explore the role of space and
place in movement construction. Our focus will be on the
in-between: the unique interactions of the inner and outer
poles of experience. Our mental furniture and imagination
affects how we understand the exterior and how we make
movement. A layer of observation on space provides tools
for improvisation and shows that our actions are, in fact,
all creative inventions, but how? What are the similarities
between virtual and kinesthetic space? The panelists and
participants will investigate the space of dance in dialogue
and action.
8pm, Judson Memorial Church Gym
Free
THURSDAY, 12/2
Two Groups
• Monsoon Orchestra with DD Dorvillier, Lisa Frisari,
Scott Heron, John Jasperse, Jennifer Monson,
Michelle Nagai, Hahn Rowe, Aki Sasamoto, Jim
Staley and Ryuji Yamaguchi
• Timing Place by Bebe Miller Company with
Kathleen Fisher, Angie Hauser, Kathleen
Hermesdorf, Darrell Jones, Bebe Miller, David
Thomson and musician Albert Mathias
• Interference by Magnetic Laboratorium
8:30pm, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
$12
FRIDAY, 12/3
Friday Night’s Alright Too
• Osmany Tellez in Descending Matter with Astrud
Angarita, Becky Serrell and Sigal Bergman
• Morgan Thorson and Douglas Henderson
• Sally Silvers, Pooh Kaye and Mark Dendy
• Kenneth King with Louise Burns, Sean Curran,
Sara Skaggs and guests Carla Peterson and Lucy
Sexton
• Interference by Magnetic Laboratorium
8:30pm, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
$12
SATURDAY, 12/4
Contact Jam
2- 4:30pm, Eden’s Expressway
$5
Saturday Night Double Feature
Co-MCs: Nancy Forshaw-Clapp and Chris Peck
Feature One:
• Asimina Chremos
• Motion Lab/Kathleen Hermesdorf & Albert Mathias
• Katy Pyle and Eleanor Hullihan
• Karinne Keithley
• Cori Olinghouse and Susan Sgorbati
• Sara Rudner with Jodi Melnick, Vicky Shick and
Rocky Bornstein
• Michael Portnoy
• Jim Self
8pm, Aqui The Bushwick — Come early, space is limited
$10
Feature Two:
Metamorphosis...merge with space, disappear in the
virtual, sleep over, see the sun come up, feel real
• koosil-ja hwang
Public Sleep/Sleep Over invites participants to spend the
night with artists. The dancers will dance a pillow close to
you. Live video and sound artists and dancers will perform
solos all night to examine how our sensibility and energy will
re-shape in order to suspend “performance” overnight while
tuning in to an environment that is intimate and quiet. The
participating artists are Charles Cohen (sound), Geoff Matters
(sound), Sarah Michelson (dance), Michael Portnoy (dance),
koosil-ja (dance), and live video artists to be determined.
Please bring whatever you need to feel comfortable sleeping
over. We will serve Chai and snacks all night.
Public Sleep/Sleep Over has received funding from The Experimental
Television Center’s Presentation Funds Program, which is supported
by the New York State Council on the Arts, a public agency.
10pm until dawn, Chez Bushwick — Sleeping spots are
limited, reservations are highly recommended. For more
information and ticket reservations: 212-375-0186.
$10
SUNDAY, 12/5
Hothouse
A nineteen-year old, informal, low-tech vehicle for
high-risk experiments in the spontaneous.
• Arturo Vidich, Lily Skove and Aki Sasamoto
• Kathy Westwater, Abby Block and Peter Kirn
• Ted Johnson and Roel Seeber
• Colin Rusch
1pm, PS122, 2nd Floor
$5
Sunday Night Special
• Simone Forti
• Chris Aiken, Andrew Harwood and Peter Jones
• Jeremy Wade
• Yvonne Meier’s Gogolorez with Miguel Gutierrez,
Ishmael Houston-Jones, Heather Kravas, Jennifer
Monson and Nami Yamamoto
Performance followed by a Benefit for Movement
Research to honor Simone Forti
8:30pm, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
Performance Only Reservations: 212-674-8194
Performance & Benefit Reservations: 212-598-0551
www.danspaceproject.org
$12 Performance
$50 Benefit including Performance
MONDAY, 12/6 — K.J.’s Birthday
Contact Jam
8:15–11:15pm, The Children’s Aid Society
$5
TUESDAY, 12/7
Night at Brick Theater
MC: Ishmael Houston-Jones
• Chase Granoff and Jon Moniaci
• Angie Hauser and Darrell Jones
• Juliette Mapp
• Ayo Janeen Jackson
• Paige Martin and Justine Lynch
• Judith Sánchez-Ruiz with Michelle Boulé,
Danielle Goldman and Sari Nordman
• Everything Smaller with David Schmidt, Donnell
Turner and Jessica Jolly
8pm, Brick Theater — Come early, space is limited
$10
WEDNESDAY, 12/8
Studies Project: Outside in the City
Moderators: Jennifer Monson and Gillian Lipton
Panelists: Simone Forti, Marisela Lagrave, Alejandra
Martorell and Yves Musard
Reframing the Kinetic Experience of the Urban Environment
This Studies Project brings together four artists who have
engaged the urban environment through dance. We’ll
discuss the ways that each artist uses the context of city as
material and metaphor for their work and how the moving
body, in particular, can incorporate, appropriate, interpret
and reframe the ecology, geography and geometry of the city.
8pm, Judson Memorial Church Gym
Free
THURSDAY 12/9
Exquisite Corpses
Names are drawn from a hat for unexpected on
the spot performances, hosted by clairvoyant,
extra-terrestrial guest, Technopia. With a solo disappearance
by Douglas Dunn.
• Christal Brown, Loren Dempster, K.J. Holmes,
Susan Honer, Chris Lancaster, James McGinn,
Yves Musard, Chris Peck, Anna Sperber, Fabio
Tavares and Leslie Ross
8pm, Chez Bushwick — Come early, space is limited
$10
Jam – Open Movement
FRIDAY 12/10
Open Movement, a space for improvising, used to happen
weekly at PS 122 in the 1980’s and early ‘90’s. Peter
Rose, a PS 122 co-founder, writes, The authentic and
dynamic alliance of Byrd Hoffman Foundation Birds and
Grotowski’s Active Culture became Open Movement. This
event was at the source of (PS)122. It was 122’s original
event. Through the work of many … Open Movement
became the labo-ratory pool for the living bodies. It offered
a meeting place for the social needs yet offered a set of
conditions which made artistic challenges and demands. It
was serious fun and also asked serious questions about life
and art. This evening will be a beginning of finding what
Open Movement might be in the present.
7-10pm, Panetta Movement Center
$3
SATURDAY, 12/11
Afternoon Delight: Tryst
• Tryst is Alejandra Martorell, Paul Benney and
Clarinda MacLow
1:30pm, St. Mark’s Church Courtyard
Free
Contact Jam
2–4:30pm, Eden’s Expressway
$5
Almost Closing Night Performance Party
Co-MCs: Ann Liv Young and Miguel Gutierrez
• Daria Fain’s Gift-Horse with Kenta Nagai and
Annie Lanzillotto
• Beth Gill and Neal Beasley
• Nicholas Leichter
• Isabel Lewis and Erika Hand
• Diane Madden
• Wally Cardona
• Paule Turner, Duchess
• Wendy Perron and Barbara Kilpatrick
8pm, Bill Young’s Studio — Come early, space is limited
$10
SUNDAY, 12/12
Hothouse
Another Sunday, another brunch, but never the
same Hothouse twice.
• Levi Gonzalez, Luciana Achugar and Chris Forsyth
• Ryuji Yamaguchi
• Karl Anderson and Chris Lancaster
• Jennifer Allen, Juliette Mapp and Chris Peck
1pm, PS122, 2nd Floor
$5

Participating Studios & Locations
Aqui The Bushwick
249-55 Varet Street, Brooklyn
Directions: L to Morgan Avenue, be at the front of the train.
Exit turnstile and go right, up right-hand staircase. Continue
straight on Morgan Avenue 2 blocks. Right on Thames St.,
left on Bogart St., right on Varet St. It is the second building
on the right, top floor.
Bill Young’s Studio
100 Grand Street, 2nd Floor
(Corner of Mercer and Grand Sts.)
Directions: N, R, Q, W, 6, J, M, Z to Canal Street. Walk
north on Broadway. Left on Grand Street.
Improvisation Classes & Workshops
Held in conjunction with the Festival
For more information: www.movementresearch.org
Workshops
Pre-registration is strongly advised for all workshops;
contact Movement Research: 212-598-0551
• Logomotion, Simone Forti Workshop
November 29–December 3 (Monday–Friday)
4–7pm, Eden’s Expressway
$125
• Seize the Moment, Chris Aiken/Andrew Harwood
Workshop
November 29–December 3 (Monday–Friday)
10–2pm, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
$150
• Skinner Releasing Technique, DD Dorvillier
December 6–December 10 (Monday–Friday)
4-6pm, Eden’s Expressway
$100
Classes
Enrollment begins 30 minutes before class begins,
and is on a first-come, first-served basis. Open to
people of all levels of movement experience. Payment
by cash or check.
• Contact Improvisation, Jen Abrams
December 1 & 8 (Wednesday)
6:45–9:30pm, Simone Forti Studio
$12 per class
• The Athletics of Intimacy, Improvisations, K.J. Holmes,
December 4 & 11 (Saturday)
11am–1pm, Eden’s Expressway
$12 per class
Brick Theater
575 Metropolitan Avenue, Brooklyn
(North side of Metropolitan Avenue between Union
and Lorimer)
Directions: L/G to Lorimer/Metropolitan. Walk east on
Metropolitan Avenue to theater.
Chez Bushwick
304 Boerum #11, Brooklyn
Directions: L to Morgan Avenue, be at the front of the train.
Exit turnstile and go up left hand staircase. (You’ll be on
Harrison St.) Turn around, cross Morgan Ave. and walk
to the end of the block. Turn right on Bogart, then left on
Boerum. Chez Bushwick is in the last building on the block.
Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church
& Saint Mark’s Church courtyard
131 East 10th Street
(Corner of 10th St. and 2nd Ave.)
Movement Research at Eden’s Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th Floor
(between Prince & Spring)
Judson Memorial Church Gym
243 Thompson Street
Corner of West 4th Street (Washington Square South)
and Thompson Street.
Panetta Movement Center
214 West 29th St.
Suite 1001, 10th Floor
(between 7th and 8th Avenues)
PS122
150 First Avenue
(Corner of 9th St.)
Simone Forti Studio
537 Broadway, 3rd Floor
(between Prince & Spring)
The Children’s Aid Society
219 Sullivan Street
(W. 3rd & Bleecker)

MOVEMENT RESEARCH
Movement Research on the move…
Throughout the life of Movement Research, the organization has served artists in their early movement-based investigations. Over time, Movement Research
has developed specific platforms that provide a critical and safe space for the artists’ voice, to protect the life of the ‘emerging idea’ at its most fragile.
The Performance Journal, for one, has always been by and for artists and progressive ideas over its 14 years of existence. Our free weekly series, Movement
Research at the Judson Church, for another, regularly brings varying dance communities together around the celebration of investigation.
In the case of this Festival, the organization is taking another step to ensure that its mission of research and development is being advanced. By giving
the Festival, originated in 1991 by Sondra Loring (a MR Artist-in-Residence at the time) and Julie Carr, back to the artist community in terms of focus
and curatorial oversight, we ensure not a ‘correct’, ‘best’ or ‘perfect’ view, but a broader and deeper view into the artistic currents of today. This year, a
curatorial committee of seven artists have honed the focus and programmed the festival, bringing over 150 artists and 11 venues together, all on slim
resources. (Think what we could do with more!) This new structure is a work-in-progress, like the artistic work itself, and next year we hope to form a
different group of artists to serve on committee. Artists are the veritable think tank in research and development.
Movement Research distinguishes itself from its sister dance organizations in the overall dance ecology in that it is not a presenter with informed curatorial
focus but rather more a laboratory for research and development of emerging ideas. Without strong presenters, artists have no place for fully realized, fully
produced works to interact with audiences. But without support for the early investigations, these produced works are less informed by innovative thinking.
An artist at our MR Town Hall meeting last spring suggested that Movement Research is the closest situation artists have in the U.S. to a real laboratory
for experimentation, nevertheless it has got a ways to go, in part given the scarcity of resources in this country for such work. That comment is both a
celebration of what Movement Research does manage to do and a call for progress! Within that spirit and our modest means, we intend to do as much as
possible to more fully realize this sense of laboratory. Join us at the Festival! Come early, some venues have limited seating! Experience artists of multigenerations
working ‘improvisationally’. Watch, talk, jam, dance, take a class or workshop, argue and celebrate! Keep the discourse going. And support
artists and Movement Research!
Carla Peterson
Executive Director
Administrative Office
Dance Theater Workshop
219 West 19th Street
(between 7th & 8th Avenues)
Mailing Address
Movement Research
Box 49, Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10113 USA
Tel: 212-598-0551
Hotline: 212-539-2611
Fax: 212-633-1974
Email: info@movementresearch.org
Web: www.movementresearch.org
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MOVEMENT RESEARCH STAFF
Executive Director
Operations
Programming
Staff at Large
Performance Journal
Carla Peterson
Anne Gadwa
Amanda Loulaki
Trajal Harrell
Guest Editors and Editorial Team
Work-studies and Interns, our Rubber and Glue
Advertising Intern
Jodi Bender
Development Interns
Brooke Belott, Christine Cali
Programming Intern
Karl Rogers
Administrative Interns
Julie Alexander, Eleanor Dubinsky, Jennifer Guglielmi, Emily Wexler
Work-study Students
Jmy Leary, Marion Ramirez
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Barbara Bryan, Mary Lou D’Auray, P. Shane Elenbaas, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Paul Langland,
Jeremy Nelson, Carla Peterson, Janice Shapiro, Guy Yarden
ADVISORY BOARD
Wendell Beavers, David Dorfman, Simone Forti, Cynthia Hedstrom, Bill T. Jones, Daniel Lepkoff,
Mary Overlie, Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Jim Staley
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Movement Research gratefully acknowledges the generous contributions from the following public funders, which make our programs possible: the
National Endowment for the Arts (a federal agency); New York State Council on the Arts (a state agency); New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and
Materials for the Arts (a program of the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs and the Department of Sanitation).
Movement Research also receives generous private support from Altria Group, Inc.; The Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York; Foundation for
Contemporary Performance Arts; The Harkness Foundation for Dance; Jerome Foundation; Leonard and Sophie Davis Fund; James E. Robison Foundation;
Starry Night Fund of the Tides Foundation; as well as from all of our dear Friends of Movement Research, who contribute financial support, labor and love.
Special Thanks to Dance Theater Workshop (DTW) and its board and staff. Movement Research is in residence at DTW for the 2004/05 season.
Enormous gratitude also to Frances Alenikoff for her continuing belief in the mission of Movement Research, for her ongoing patience with us, and for her
spirited example of what lifelong artistry is!
Thanks always to the congregation and staff of the Judson Memorial Church.
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