a collaboration with James Coleman of Live Architecture Network

presented by ROLL CALL

Movement Research Festival 2009

choreography:

Biba Bell

music:

Mark McGuire

in collaboration with dancers:

Nohemi Montzerrat Contreras

Jacqueline Fritz

Ruby MacDougall

Archeography IV

at SuperFront Gallery

April 30, 2009 at 6-9 PM

1432 Atlantic Avenue in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn

This dance is working with an idea of vectors of force that traverse space, creating threads of relation and tension between objects, bodies and surrounding structures. The desire is to connect movement to the articulations of a space: a dusty corner, pathway of light or shadow, cluster of furniture, and create movements that follow an illusive map of overlapping seams/edges inside a space and between its objects and bodies. Beginning with the corners of the studio, we've (the dancers) worked to weave a complex web of such invisible relations, responding to them as they cut through the room, imbricating our bodies, guiding and creating tensions with the choreography. Ultimately the architectural installation adds to the layers, transforming the space of Superfront into a mobile, undulating web of vectors, giving us dancers a very material encounter with our preliminary movement concept and imagery.

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