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at No Fun Fest, May 16, 2008
Thanks to Gian Pablo Villamil for the video and for his Rhythmic Synth which I played for some of the set. You can hear it in the video.

Thanks to Megan Byrne who was the lighting designer for this show.

Above is a video response by Matt Gough to my blog post: http://www.nancygarcia.org/blog/?p=164

Matt’s post originally appeared on Doug Fox’s “Great Dance” blog here.

It’s that time of year again. It’s time for the ITP Winter Show.

This weekend, Sunday (today) and Monday. It’s free and open to the public.

Sunday, December 16 2-6 PM
Monday, December 17 5-9 PM
ITP @ NYU Tisch Building
721 Broadway (at Waverly Place), 4th Floor

I have two projects in the show, You’ve Got Moves (link to web site) and the Zoraida Project, Objects for Performance (link to web site):

Descriptions of both projects from ITP website:

http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2007/youve-got-moves/

http://itp.nyu.edu/shows/winter2007/zoraida-project-objects-for-performance/

Movement score based on workshop exercise given by Chrysa Parkinson at Janet Panetta’s studio (10/30/2007):

Transition from tense facial expression, to tense facial expression, smoothly and continuously so that I may stand in front of you and notice the slow shift between each facial expression. I will mimic you as best I can.

You will walk forward slowly as you do this.

Keep the rest of your body entirely relaxed.

We’ll switch roles once we can no longer continue to travel in the space (because of a wall or whatever). Meaning, you’ll walk backward and I’ll walk forward. This time around, you’ll mimic me.

This exercise was shared with my Performing Technology classmates at NYU’s ITP graduate program, as a response to an assignment asking us to “prepare a set of simple Dada ‘improvisation’ rules using a communications technology.”  We were also asked to “hand these rules to one other person,” and that other person and I performed the  structured improvisation for the class.

I wasn’t so interested in using technology to communicate or create the rule set. I was more interested in getting my classmates to get up and move around.  The class focuses on the performative implications of technology, but hardly requires us to use the main instrument of mobilization that we all have in common: our bodies.

Very interesting article by Brenda Dixon Gottschild about artist Faustin Linyekula.

Link to PDF of article.

Available via Dance Theater Workshop’s website. DTW, in association with BRIC Arts | Media | Brooklyn, is presenting his new work “Festival of Lies” from November 14 - 17.

Link to info about the show.

Mind and Body in Higher Education, by Claudia La Rocco (September 23, 2007, New York Times)