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Events Next Week with Jennifer Monson and others

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Hello iLAND community,
     The next week is full of some exciting events. Please check out theMovement Research Spring Festival. I’ll be hosting a sensory walk in Central Park and performing in stillness-action-sweat-effort on Wednesday night. I will also be presenting at the Earth Matters on Stage conferencein Pittsburgh with iLAND board member, Julia Handschuh. Also, check out the AMAZING Post Plastica, a NEW and outstanding creation by Alina and Ela Troyano. I will be speaking about the BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration tour at the pre-show talk, along with a beekeeper! I’m so excited!
     I also want to encourage all of you fearless people to sign up for Pooh Kaye’s Wild Fields’ workshop at Movement Research’s Summer MELT. This was one of the first pieces I made with Pooh Kaye. It is an amazing work and Pooh is incomparable artist. This is a rare and wonderful opportunity.
      We will be sending an update about the 2012 iLAB Residents soon!  The initial news from the collaborative teams is titillating.
     ENJOY the summer and I hope to see everyone multiple times in the gorgeous NYC environs.
Love,
Jennifer Monson
Founder and Artistic Director of iLAND
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Movement Research Spring Festival

Performance Event:   

stillness-action-sweat-effort

Wednesday May 30, 2012 | 10PM  | $5

The Center at West Park, NYC 

165 W. 86th Street
(West Park Presbyterian Church, corner of Amsterdam Avenue)

A performance experiment where the duet is charged with the exploration of stillness, action, sweat and effort. Participants were chosen based on their choreographic approaches and aesthetic differences that touch these categories. Performances can be rehearsed, improvised, score-driven or otherwise. The collaboration can be collective, competitive, a battle, a fusion, or indeterminate.

PARTICIPANTS: 

Aretha Aoki
devynn emory
Niall Jones
Jennifer Monson 

Central Park Sensory Walk

Led by Jennifer Monson

Saturday June 2, 2012 | 11am | FREE

CENTRAL PARK
Meet at the entrance on West 81 Street & Central Park West.

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Earth Matters On Stage

PANEL:  “Performance & Pause: Developing Kinesthetic Exchanges with Urban Environments”  

with Julia Handschuh, Jennifer Monson, Courtney Ryan, Arden Thomas
Thursday May 31, 2012 | 3:00-4:30 pm
Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama, Pittsburgh, PA
A panel of papers aimed at facilitating an eco-conversation between artists and scholars on the subject of human engagement with the urban environment.  Topics discussed will include the work of iLAND and performer Julia Handschuh’s work in collaboration with iLand, and the work of artists Mark Bamuthi Joseph and Vlatka Horvat.
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PS122 and El Museo del Barrio present 

Post Plastica 

by Carmelita Tropicana & Ela Troyano
Featuring Carmelita Tropicana, Becca Blackwell & Erin Markey
May 31 – June 3, 2012
El Museo del Barrio (5th Ave at 104th St)
 
Part live performance, part video installation, this piece offers a glimpse into a future in which celebrity culture has pitched
a battle between the primacy of virtual and artistic lives; in which revolutionaries keep bees in a secret underground;
and in which a half-woman, half-bear scientist has gained the upper hand…

Pre-show talk at 6 pm on June 2, 2012
BIRD BRAIN with Jennifer Monson, choreographer and artistic director of interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance (iLAND)

and Urban Beekeeping with Guillermo Fernandez, of NYC Beekeeping

2 for 1 tickets in advance with discount code FF241.

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Movement Research 

MELT

July 9 – August 10, 2012
MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer (5 weeks) and winter (3 weeks). Taught by Movement Research’s internationally recognized faculty as well as acclaimed guest artists, these workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today.
Pooh Kaye

July 9 – July 13
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday
3:30 pm-6:00 pm $130
Danspace Project
Wild Fields: Radical Strategies for Movement and Composition

Bronx River Flotilla – May 5 – iLAB Residents in Action

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On Saturday May 5th, 2012 iLAB Residents Follow the Water Walks will take part in the annual Bronx River Flotilla.

The Bronx River Alliance will host over 200 participants as they traverse the Bronx River – beginning at Shoelace Park and ending at Concrete Plant Park. Registration is full. There will be a picnic from 12:30-4 pm at Concrete Plant Park. Welcome paddlers as they reach the finish line. Bring a blanket and picnic lunch.

Join us for our first public paddling event of the season. You and over 200 participants will paddle and glide along almost six miles of the Bronx River, from 219th Street to Concrete Plant Park. Enjoy unique views of the neighborhoods through which the river flows on its way to the sea.

Click here for more information.

Working with People : A conference on Keywords & Contested Meanings

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Working with People : A conference on Keywords & Contested Meanings

April 7, 2012, 10-3:30pm, with a reception to follow
Theresa Lang Center, Arnhold Hall, The New School, 55 W. 13th Street, NY

Conference : http://www.working-with-people.org/public-exchange/
Project : www.working-with-people.org

When we talk about community-university collaborations, some powerful words are ill-defined; other critical words are conspicuously absent. How can wrestling with these words affect our practice?

Please join us for a one-day event at The New School focused on developing critical conversations around “civic engagement” and the pedagogy and politics of teaching “with communities.”

The day’s conversations will foster challenging collisions between different understandings of six crucial keywords—community + collaboration; politics + citizenship; and representation + human—as we consider even the most seemingly familiar terms and concepts from new perspectives and begin to build a more nuanced way of working with people.
The event also marks the launch of Buscada’s collaborative project with the Working with People team : Keywords : Working with People, an online archive of divergent definitions : www.working-with-people.org
Event speakers :
Lisa Yun Lee
Director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Jeffrey Hou
Chair of Landscape Architecture, University of Washington
Ari Wohlfeiler
Activist, Critical Resistance

Hettie Jones
Poet, The New School for Public Engagement & fmr chair, PEN Prison Writing Comm.
Jack Tchen
Prof of APA Studies, NYU & co-founder of the Museum of Chinese in America
Caitlin Cahill
The Public Science Project & co-founder of the Mestizo Arts & Cultural Collective
Judy Mejia
Director of Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts
Deva Woodly
Assistant Professor of Politics, The New School for Social Research
For the full schedule, please see www.working-with-people.org
Conference co-organized by :
Shana Agid, Parsons The New School for Design
Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani, Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts + Buscada
The event is free and open to the public. Please RSVP to mintera@newschool.edu
Sponsored by the New School University Civic Engagement Committee

The 2012 iLAND Symposium Begins!

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We’re off to a great start with the 2012 iLAND Symposium: Moving into the Out There.  These annual symposiums give us a taste of the interdisciplinary research community that iLAND is creating.

As is often the case with iLAND, many conversations are started that open onto much bigger discussions that we do not have time to continue in the confines of the Symposium.   Stay tuned for blog posts by Gretchen Till, who will be blogging throughout this year’s Symposium; we hope you will join the conversation in person and online.

See you tomorrow, inside the New School and Thrown Outside for transects and weather balloons!

Live Dancing Archive Informal Showing

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Join us for an informal showing of Jennifer Monson’s new work, Live Dancing Archive during APAP.  The performance will take place at Eden’s Expressway, 537 Broadway between Spring and Prince at 4:30 pm on Saturday, January 7th.

This is a solo performance that mines the documentary footage of the BIRD BRAIN Osprey Migration as well as Jennifer’s long history of improvisational practice to explore the ways in which dancing produces and elicits place, systems of relations and a history of presence.

Please note: we are no longer accepting reservations for this event.

Branch Dances at Wave Hill

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Merián Soto returns to the Bronx, her artistic home, to develop Branch Dances at Wave Hill, through generated@wavehill a commissioning program that provides artists the opportunity to create temporal work for the grounds. During this year-long residency she will create four outdoor performances, one each season, and will participate in the Winter Workspace Program. The first performance takes place Saturday, October 29, 2011 at 3PM.

This new project borrows from the seasonal structure of Soto’s award-winning, One Year Wissahickon Park Project presented in Wissahickon Valley Park, a wooded section of Philadelphia’s famed Fairmount Park. Soto uses both choreographed and improvised movement to transform everyday life experience, memory and history into innovative works that create a heightened awareness of emotion, expression and consciousness.

Branch Dances at Wave Hill performances are slow and meditative, yet powerfully communicative. Soto works with her team of five dancers―Beau Hancock, Shavon Norris, Jumatatu Poe, Olive Prince and Marion Ramirez―and percussionist Robert (Tigger) Benford, to connect body, mind, place and elements to stillness. For each perforamance Soto selects locations that respond to seasonal aspects of the landscape, taking advantage of Wave Hill’s brilliant foliage, sweeping vistas and sculptural trees. Audiences are invited to slow down and enter a state of heightened receptivity to nature.

http://www.wavehill.org/arts/branch_dances.html

2012 iLAB Collaborative Residency Request for Proposals

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iLAND is now accepting proposals for the 2012 iLAB Collaborative Residency Program.

Important dates:
Dec. 1st: letter of inquiry due
Jan. 3rd: notification of second round advancement
March 1st: full application due
March 30th: final notification

This year iLAND is restructuring the application process for the iLAB Residency.  Come learn more about the program and new guidelines, and meet potential collaborators at our upcoming information session on October 15 from 3-5pm.  Location: 475 Atlantic Avenue between Dean and 3rd Avenue on the 3rd Floor.

Email info(at)ilandart.org to RSVP for the Application Seminar.

Download the complete application guidelines here.

iLAND SOIREE + Benefit

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Join us on Monday, October 17 for a SOIREE and Benefit to Celebrate and Support the work of iLAND.  Food, drinks, performance, collaboration, silent auction and raffle!

  • 6 pm – Mingling, researching and collaborating
  • 7pm – Opening remarks – Jennifer Monson
  • 7:30pm – Collaborative performance based on the research and collaboration gathered from our guests.  Followed by a reading by Eileen Myles
  • 9 pm Silent Auction and Raffle 

MC CARMELITA TROPICANA | Performers include: Sean Meehan, Mina Nishamura, Jon Kinzel, Will Rawls and Carolyn Hall

Tickets:

To purchase tickets online, select your level above, or email info@ilandart.org to make a reservation and pay at the door.  

  • Food by Athena Kokoronis
  • Wine donated by David Bowler Wines
  • Food donated by The Anthill Farm

E.J. McAdams reads this Wednesday, August 10th

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The Center for Book Arts: Text Form iLAnd Board Member E.J. McAdams will read this Wednesday, August 10th at 6:30pm as part of The Center for Book Arts Summer Reading Series.

Other guests include Andrew Rahal, Anwyn Crawford, Camille Ikalina Robles and Stefanie Simons.  The evening is hosted by Jen Bervin & Mariette Lamson
$10 Suggested Donation/ $5 CBA Members

for more information visit: http://www.centerforbookarts.org/events/

4X4 Dance Body And The Environment

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With Guest Artists: Jennifer Monson, Simon Whitehead and Angus Balbernie

18th – 29th April 2010

4×4 is an eleven-day event on the theme of dance, body and the environment for dance or movement artists, choreographers and artists working in related art-forms.

“Somewhere in the midst of ‘sustainability’ lies an inspiring vision of transformation. As movement artists we will take our dance and choreographic practice into this territory, developing and deepening our sense of the self within the body, to inspire and engender a vital reconnection between humanity and the planet”.

Artists of any discipline and level of experience are welcome to participate in all or just part of the event.  read more here.