Movement Research Studies Project, "An Artist Conversation between Nelisiwe Xaba and David Thomson" - December 1, 2015 Part of Movement Research Festival Fall 2015: vanishing points, curated by Beth Gill and Cori Olinghouse This event was an informal introduction to choreographer Nelisiwe Xaba who is based in Johannesburg, South Africa and was a participating artist in the festival. David Thomson led a live interview and discussion with Xaba around the political and aesthetic resonances in...

Movement Research Studies Project, "Dancer as Agent" - November 10, 2014 Conceived by Cecilia Roos in partnership with Iréne Hultman Panelists included Hilary Clark and Juliette Mapp Within the field of dance, the creation process often demands that dancers develop methodologies, movement vocabularies and conceptual frames. Previously seen as the exclusive domain of choreographers, dramaturges and directors, these procedural boundaries are now shifting and eroding creative hierarchies in...

Movement Research Studies Project, "what we talk about when we talk somatics: a sharing of practices leading into conversation" - November 10, 2015 With Justine Lynch, Antonio Ramos, Shelley Senter and RoseAnne Spradlin Moderated by Levi Gonzalez What does the term “somatics” even mean? Can we arrive at consensus around this as an idea, a value, a practice? This event brought together artists/practitioners of various backgrounds and areas of study to lead the group in experiential practices...

Movement Research Studies Project, "What I've Learned about Choreography from Watching Movies, Films (and TV)" - October 6, 2015 Conceived by Melinda Ring Moderated by Ryan Hill With panelists Layla Childs, Tere O’Connor, Melinda Ring, Sonya Robbins and Larissa Velez-Jackson How do the things we watch inform our dance making? What have our (guilty) pleasures, high and low, taught us about form, timing, structure, etc? Does our connection to TV, film and movies keep us attuned to this...

Movement Research Studies Project, "Placing Performance," Part of Movement Research Festival Spring 2015: LEGIBLE/ILLEGIBLE - May 12, 2015 Moderated by Sarah Maxwell With panelists AUNTS, Megan Bridges and the Spring Festival co-curators, Layla Childs, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and Samita Sinha. What words do we use, arrange, invent, and discover to talk about the particular communicative power of performance work? How does geographic location and environment influence the creation, languaging,...

Moving Dialogue: A Bucharest/New York Dance Exchange Dance Theater Workshop Showing Thursday October 28. 7:30pm. DTW Studios, 219 West 19th Street. This was a post-performance discussion as part of Moving Dialogue: a Bucharest/New York Dance Exchange presented by Movement Researcj, Romanian Cultural Institute New York, National Dance Theatre Bucharest, Dance Theatre Workshop and the Gabriella Tudor Foundation. In this open showing Madalina Dan and Vava Stefanescu presented works in...

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...

Movement Research Spring Festival, iLand Symposium Sensing to Know / Analyzing to Imagine Moderated by Jennifer Monson With 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...

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?...

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...

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...

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...

  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...

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. 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions...

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,...

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 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table...

This is Movement Research Studies Project: Dance and Music Now With Panelists: Douglas Dunn & Steven Taylor, Melanie Maar & Kenta Nagai, Edisa Weeks & Katie Down  0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt...

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...

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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table...