Democratic Dance Session

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:

Générique in New York

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.

Study for Untitled @ Movement Research at Judson Church

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:

DanceWEB 2008 Conversation on Critical Correspondence

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.

Transversality Lab

The Transversality Lab was an Austrian/NYC exchange that took place on June 2, 2008 at Judson Memorial Church during the Movement Research Spring Festival 2008: Somewhere Out There.

Featuring from Austria: Company Two in One, Julius Deutschbauer, Matsune & Subal, united sorry (Frans Poelstra and Robert Steijn), and theorist Gerald Raunig.

Featuring from NYC: MGM, Regina Rocke, lower lights collective, Eagle Ager, and theorist Jenn Joy.

Below is a video from the event made by Julius Deutschbauer:

The Transversality Lab was a collaboration between ACFNY, Tanzquartier Wien, the Austrian Ministry for Education, the Arts, and Culture, and Movement Research.

Movement Research Spring Festival 2008: Somewhere Out There

I am co-curating the Movement Research Spring Festival this year with Jeff Larson, Chris Peck, and Anna Sperber. It takes place May 26-June 8 mostly at Judson Memorial Church and beyond. Take a look at our website, we have details for all the events, podcasts, writings, and more!

Movement Research at Judson Church 11.12.07

Here is an excerpt of a new work-in-progress that I am developing with movers Margaret Paek & Erika Eichelberger and musicians slow/dynamite – Nick DeCarmine, Errin Delperdang, and Mike Quoma.