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move thing (ongoing research)

July 10, 2025 by admin Leave a Comment

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move thing
Ongoing Research
FREE. No RSVP required.

Date: Saturday (4/5), 10-12pm (we will then join the Hands Off! protest at Bryant Park)
Sunday (4/6), 2-5pm
Monday (4/7) 3-6pm
Tuesday(4/8), 10-1pm & 3-6pm

Location: La Guardia Playground, between S 5th St and Havemeyer

Performers: Jennifer Monson, Valerie Oliveiro, K.J. Holmes, JZ, jennifer miller, Julia Santoli, Courtney Cooke, Alex Viteri Arturo, Martita Abril, Carolyn Hall, Anh Vo, Madeline Mellinger, Rafael Cañals

Conceptual formations: Jennifer Monson and Valerie Oliveiro

move thing is a community-based dance project proposing that the multi-sensory, improvisatory, and choreographic structures of dance contribute to reparative projects in communities that have historically been impacted by toxic contamination due to resource extraction (Uranium and coal mining) and industrial effluents (chemicals, particulates, carbon monoxide, and heavy metals). Resisting all forms of purity, the work proposes that we are all constantly, inherently, and unevenly making up each other and all other animate and inanimate beings. If we imagine ourselves as soluble, always dissolving and reconstituting choreographically, could we move through toxicity and be with and/or absorb toxicity and find new / alternative / old / transformative relationships to its states / tendencies / behaviors / effects / violences / shifts? Could we find intelligences within our bodies and abilities to connect more deeply with the mechanisms for survival and support in sites and systems that we are a part of?

move thing is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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