Issue #37
Summer 2010
For this issue, we decided that it was time to put our focus specifically on dancers. Although, the boundary between being a dancer and a choreographer is constantly in flux, we wanted to just shift our attention a bit. Recognizing that as trends have also shifted at Movement Research, in general, favoring the choreographic process is perhaps also an outgrowth of the breakdown of the company model. It seems more and more artists are taking the choreographic impulse in their own hands. Yet, I harken back to when I first came to know Movement Research housed in Context Studios on Avenue A. There was a definite feeling in the building that exploring dancing and being a dancer was just as vital an impulse. One such person I remember teaching at MR at the time was Becky Hilton. Check out the interview in this issue alongside the other thought provoking pieces.
Editorial team
Cover Artist
Chrysa Parkinson
Editor-In-Chief
Trajal Harrell
Managing Editor
Moriah Evans
Moriah Evans - Troy Lambert - Sarah Holcman
Copy Editor
Clarinda Mac Low - Will Rawls
Contributing Editor
Matthew Lyons - Eleanor Marie Bauer - Jill Sigman - Dana Salisbury
Articles
Happy Birthday: Francis Alenikoff Turns 90!
Movement Research extends enormous birthday wishes to Frances Alenikoff. She turns 90 this month! A celebrated dancer, choreographer and multimedia artist, Frances Alenikoff has always used her multifaceted talents with...
Focus on the Work: Benoît Lachambre
We met at one of the studios at Circuit-Est on a rainy afternoon in Montreal, just before Benoit was to teach class. I’m curious about your dance experiences in New...
Stolen Interview: Janet Panetta: The ballet master parts the curtain on Tanztheater Wuppertal.
Even as time has allowed Pina Bausch’s passing to sink in, her untimely death on June 30 still seems shockingly unreal. Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, which will continue without its...
Q&A: Who is Okwui?
1. What time in the morning do you wake up? 2. What is your favorite day of the week and why? 3. What is your favorite sushi roll? 4. What...
Interview: Pat on Pat: Pat Hoffbauer interviewing Pat Catterson
Pat H: Let's start with the basics. You were born, and the world changed… Pat C: (Laughs) I don't know about that. Pat H: You were born where? Pat C:...
Visual Art: A Group History of The Artist is Present
At one end of a linoleum-tiled hallway that runs past an elevator shaft, a space heater drones from March through May, 2010, thawing and reheating thirty-nine performers, soothing nerves, dessicating...
On the Wall: Processing the Process
I am here. I am Jill. It is Monday or Wednesday or whatever day it is. It is raining outside. I am in between. Between 1960 and 1970 (the two...
Follow-up: Cedric Andrieux
Cédric Andrieux is a well-known name in the NYC dance scene, but this name was never the title of a performance when he lived here. Andrieux’s current project, a solo...
Profile: Merceditas Manago-Alexander
Merceditas Mañago-Alexander began her journey dancing in front of the television in her home country of the Philippines, prompting her parents to put her in ballet school when she was...
Los Angeles: Jmy Leary
MRPJ: Hey you moved to L.A.! When? Why? What's going on out there with you and otherwise? Jmy Leary: I got to L.A. with my fiancé mid-October, 2009 because, well,...
Photo Essay: Set and Reset
Original cast of Trisha Brown Company’s “Set and Reset” reunite; photographs
Project Page: Giant Women
The Giant Women do everything you could want them to do. The Giant Women do nothing, or nothing that they say they do. The Giant Women always doubt their greatness....
In Memoriam: Drew Edwards
Once I had a fight with Drew. Not really a fight. There was a show. The audience was set. The show was on. A young guy ran down the street...
Interview: Now and Then: Interview with Becky Hilton by Rosalind Masson
First of all I'd like to say a big thank you for teaching this week's workshop at Labor Gras here in Berlin hosted by Arthur Stäldi and Renate Graziadei. You...
Centerfold: Parker Lutz
Born - 1970 - North Carolina Trained - Purchase, NCSA, Ballet School of Chapel Hill Sarah Michelson Group - 2001-present John Jasperse Company - 1995-2002 “I rely on fear. On...
CD Rom: Steve Paxton’s Material For the Spine: A Movement Study
Edited and produced by Contredanse (Brussels). Realized by Baptiste Andrien, Florence Corin (for Contredanse) and Steve Paxton Project initiated by Patricia Kuypers. Artistic advisors: Patricia Kuypers, Lisa Nelson. Camera, video...
Personal History: Judith Sanchez Ruiz
My artistic life began at a very young age when a group of teachers arrived at my school in search of athletes. Being only six years old, I was unaware...
Interview: Chrysa Parkinson
MORIAH: Within two days I saw you perform in two drastically different works by two different choreographers— Dogheart , a collaboration with Jonathan Burrows, and En Atendant with Rosas. I...
Chrysa Parkinson’s Drawings From The DVD: Self Interview on Practice
THE FOLLOWING LIST IS A PERSONAL CHRONOLOGY THAT TRACKS MY ENCOUNTERS WITH THESE SIX TOPICS. THE CHRONOLOGY IS NOT MEANT AS A HISTORY OF THE IDEAS, JUST OF WHEN I...
Questionnaire on Technique
What is technique? How do you understand it / define it? I think of technique as how you do what you do. I think a dancer’s technique is in constant...
Reprint: Structuring an Identity as a Performer
EIGHT QUESTIONS I'VE HAD TO ASK MYSELF IN ORDER TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS. WHEN DID I BEGIN TO STRUCTURE AN IDENTITY AS A PERFORMER?: SINCE THE FIRST...
Reprint: Any Body Can Dance: Four Artists Who Break the Mold
Nobody’s body is perfect. There may be a “perfect” Balanchine body or a “perfect” Ailey body, but these are only concepts, not real bodies. They refer to a sense of...
Reflections
From Tere O’Connor If the connection between dancers and choreographers is good, a subtle relationship is worked out. From 1987 through 2000, Chrysa Parkinson found one such subtle relationship. O’Connor...
The Gryphon and the Squirrel: Skyping with Christopher Williams
[8/28/10 6:03:12 PM] mrpj: We think you are one of many people’s favorite dancers to watch these days…we hear this from many people who feel the same… [8/28/10 6:03:28 PM]...
In-depth: Jennifer Lacey’s Les Assistantes
Trajal: When I think back on Les Assistantes , there are many things I can describe, but I think the thing that I remember most is the ineffable quality of...
Back Cover
2 EDITORS' LETTERS 3 HAPPY BIRTHDAY: FRANCIS ALENIKOFF TURNS 90! 4 FOCUS ON THE WORK: BENOIT LACHAMBRE BY JANE GABRIEL 6 STOLEN INTERVIEW: JANET PANETTA Q&A: WHO IS OKWUI? PART...