I was invited by Perypezye Urbane, a dance collective based in Milan, to perform at an annual festival they organize called Solo in Azione. There is very little experimental/contemporary dance in Italy, so by organizing this festival they are offering people in Milan an opportunity to be exposed to various dance artists from Italy and from around the world. Here is a nice little preview video:
Here are a few photos that I took on my phone at the Austria-NYC exchange which I co-curated with Isabel Lewis in collaboration with Martina Hochmuth and Sigrid Gareis. It was initiated by the Austrian Cultural Forum (NYC) in partnership with Movement Research and Tanzquartier Wien. It featured presentations by Austria-based Participants Philipp Gehmacher and Vladimir Miller; united sorry (Frans Poelstra & Robert Steijn); Cabula6 (Jeremy Xido and Claudia Heu); Doris Uhlich and Andrea Salzmann; Anette Baldauf. NYC-based Participants Eagle Ager; Jill Sigman; Melinda Ring; Ann Liv Young; Jenn Joy. I was only able to take photos during Cabula6, Andrea, Jenn, united sorry and Eagle Ager’s presentations:
Sat April 25, 2009, 11-2pm Dance Theater Workshop
Democratic Dance Session
I will be leading a dance session as a part of the Movement Research Spring Festival 2009: Roll Call. Come and enjoy a dynamic, rhythmic, high-energy communal movement session for people of all levels and interests. Drawing from elements of social, folk, and contemporary dance forms, as well as athletic training, we will discover the kinaesthetic sensitivity of a dynamic body-in-motion. We will continuously locomote through space discovering co-ordination potential, while rocking out to some sweet jams.
Democratic Dance Session is mentioned in Time Out:
http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/dance/73432/the-movement-research-spring-festival-roll-call
Some influences:
Sasa Asentic will be performing My private bio-politics March 5-7th at Dance Theater Workshop. I had the opportunity to interview him and his dramaturg, Ana Vujanovic, for Movement Research’s Critical Correspondence. You can hear the interview HERE
The work they are doing is incredibly rich and inspiring. Please also visit Per.Art to learn more about their activities as well as Walking Theory, a journal for performance theory co-founded by Ana Vujanovic.
Isabel Lewis and I attended the Choreographic Platform Austria 2009 in Graz a few weeks ago in order to see Austrian work for an exchange we are curating in New York this coming June. We were impressed by the platform, mostly because of the predominantly experimental work that was shown. The contemporary dance scene in Austria is relatively young and a lot of the interesting activity can be credited to Sigrid Gareis’s artistic directorship at TanzQuartier Wien. Gareis is sadly leaving the organization in the Spring and will be missed.
Corpus, an Austrian online publication for dance and performance, hosted the “The Zimmer.” It was essentially a hotel room at the Hotel Europa in Graz for people to hang out in every night after the performances at the platform. It became a place for discussion, dancing and hanging out. The living room area gravitated towards conversation and the bedroom more towards dancing (with music on a very low volume in order to not disturb the neighbors). The bed added for an extra outlet for creative energy. At some point a second dance area emerged in the hallway/closet area. I was pleased.
See more HERE
Monday, December 8, 2008, 8:00pm
Movement Research Fall Festival at Judson Church
Générique: presentation of everybodys toolbox Realized by DD Dorvillier, Milka Djordjevich, Trajal Harrell, Sarah Beth Percival, Annie Dorsen and audience.
Here is a clip from a recent Movement Research at Judson Church showing. It is the beginning of a new work that Chris Peck and I are creating together:
photo by Otto Ramstad
Here is an interview with DanceWEB 2008 participants Nohemí Montzerrat Contreras, Sarah Beth Percival, Will Rawls, Otto Ramstad, and myself on Movement Research’s Critical Correpondence. Please feel free to comment on this interview at Critical Correspondence. You can read it here.
