"The Future Crash Is a Choreography"
What is relationship? What is movement? These are questions produced by, and generative of choreography, but aren't choreography as such. Movement and relationship are unavoidable conditions that through gestures of definition and or negation, inevitably become the intangible matter of choreography. When we ask these two questions over and over we begin to notice that there are exponentially more replies than we could have ever expected. So what? If the replies are infinite, does this also not mean there is no possible direction except every direction? What makes it dance and choreography? We are curious to see what happens when, after asking these questions repeatedly, we discover that the dynamic conditions of movement and relationship are perpetually at work in shaping what we know and what we ignore. Movement and relationship are able to infinitely generate unexpected new thoughts, responses, purposes, events.
In addressing these plain, but complex questions we suspect there are rich propositions and directions for what dance can be and produce today. We propose these questions as choreographic engines, and seek to make things fall, to break something, or to cause a crash, as daily physical discursive practices. Here we go, crashing through the postmodern aesthetic guardrail, careening towards we don’t know where, because we haven’t been there yet. Each day we will invite and share proposals in invented and known forms, which advance our discussion and the possibilities for choreography today and tomorrow. A laboratory of immediate research, creation, performance, and diffusion, the future crash is a choreography.
Interview with DD Dorvillier
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DD Dorvillier
DD Dorvillier is an active force in the experimental dance and performance scene, as a creator, performer, and teacher. Her work has been shown in venues such as The Kitchen, PS122, and Danspace Project in NYC, as well as internationally in Australia, Spain, France, Austria, Japan, and Russia. She has been affiliated with Movement Research, as an Artist in Residence, a co-editor of its Performance Journal, and co-curator of the Movement Research Festival ‘04 and ‘05. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts Choreography Fellowship recipient, a Bessie Award winner ("Dressed for Floating", 2002), and a 2007 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Fellowship. She has worked with Jennifer Monson, Jennifer Lacey, Jan Ritsema, Sarah Michelson, Yvonne Meier, Karen Finley, and Pavol Lishka, among others. In 2008/09 she will perform in "Parades & Changes, replays", a reconstruction of Anna Halprin’s seminal "Parades & Changes" (1965), initiated by choreographer Anne Collod (France) in collaboration with Anna Halprin. This year as well she will take part in the most recent choreographic work of Jennifer Lacey (USA/France) "Les Asistantes".
Trajal Harrell
Trajal Harrell is a dancer-choreographer primarily based in New York City. His works have been seen at venues in New York City such as Danspace Project, The Kitchen, PS122, and most recently in Europe at The Melkweg Theater in Amsterdam and upcoming this spring at CNDC Angers. He has been an artist-in-residence at TanzWerkStatt-Berlin and Movement Research, where he has also been active in artist-led curatorial and educational initiatives. With choreographers DD Dorvillier and Sarah Miichelson he co-edited the Movement Research Performance Journal “Release” double issue; and most recently was appointed as the new artist editor-in-chief of the publication. In 2007, he was awarded a FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance) grant to support the presentation of his latest work, “Showpony” and the development of a new work. His next work “Quartet for the End of Time” will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in the fall of 2008 supported by residencies at Centre Chorégraphique National Montpellier Languedoc-Rousillon, Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort, and Centre National de Danse Contemporaine Angers.