Interdisciplinary Arts Lab 2022
Sahar Damoni, photo: Asya Skorik
Friday & Saturday, August 12 & 13, 2022
Movement Research
122 Community Center, 150 1st Avenue, NYC
Come investigate and experience ways that movement, sound, image, and performance can inform human culture. With multiple workshops each day, teaching artists who have just engaged in a 5-day International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency join with participants from around the world to create an embodied dialogue at the intersection of modalities—contemporary dance, improvisation, walking practices, working in nature, physical theater, voice, visual art, and more. Open to all
backgrounds and experiences.
Facilitated by Peter Sciscioli (Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY)
2022 teaching artists:
Malcolm-x Betts (Lenapehoking/Bronx, NY), Sahar Damoni (Palestine),
Krista DeNio (Berkeley, CA), Ivana Ivković (Croatia),
eddy kwon (Lenapehoking/Brooklyn, NY), Martín Lanz Landazuri (Mexico City),
Arely Landeros (Mexico City), Cosmin Manolescu (Romania),
Iskra Shukarova (North Macedonia), Ana Sofrenović (Serbia)
bios and workshop descriptions below
Join us for two free IIAC Performance nights on Friday & Saturday, August 12 & 13.
Teaching artists will share practices and performance sketches from their ongoing creative research.
Sliding scale $30-$15/workshop
Covid-19 Safety Protocols
- All participants, attendees, and visitors participating in workshops must be Fully Vaccinated.
- All participants, attendees, and visitors must wear K95 or KN95 masks while indoors during the entire duration of the workshop. Movement Research will provide K95/KN95 masks if you do not have/bring your own. While outdoors, masks are optional.
- As variants continue to arise and circumstances around the virus shift we may announce updated COVID protocols closer to the date of the workshops. Please note, any updated COVID protocols will require that all participants, attendees, and visitors must wear a K95 or KN95 masks during the entire duration of the workshop.
- If circumstances related to COVID-19 arise that prevent you from attending a workshop(s) for which you have pre-registered, you will be issued a full refund.
2022 Teachers and workshop descriptions
Day 1:
MICROPOLIS: Creative tools for social innovation
with Arely Landeros
Friday, August 12, 12-3pm
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Let's take a walk around the neighborhood and explore our connections between the self and place, then gather in the studio for some collective actions. We will experience a participatory walking interview from within the group, to be introduced to this qualitative research method that can be useful for gathering data from the experience of the body in outdoor space (specifically now that a new normal is being established). How can we contribute to reimagining our cities? What kind of agency do we have? Let's unite for a moment of reflection and explore together the possibilities of the creative body in the politics of everyday life.
This is an open invitation to the general public. Artists or scientists who work with research-based creative processes can also find this approach useful. No experience in the arts or research is needed however, and all bodies are welcome.
Arely Landeros is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural promoter. Her work explores the sway between the inner experience of the body and its performative presence in the world. Her research focuses on collaborative processes in the performing arts and the experience of communality through participative art. Arely has completed studies in psychology and has experience in social research and community intervention. She also serves as director and producer of Espontánea!, a multidisciplinary creative residency for emerging professional women, and curator and co- producer of Laboratorio: Condensación, an encounter for artistic interdisciplinary experimentation and its relational context. Arely has been a member of the International Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium since 2017. Her work has been shown in México, United States and Europe. Currently Arely is working on Micrópolis, a nomadic laboratory that explores movement and space through the practice of walking, supported by FONCA from the Secretariat of Culture of México. Vimeo
with Arely Landeros
Friday, August 12, 12-3pm
Register Here
Let's take a walk around the neighborhood and explore our connections between the self and place, then gather in the studio for some collective actions. We will experience a participatory walking interview from within the group, to be introduced to this qualitative research method that can be useful for gathering data from the experience of the body in outdoor space (specifically now that a new normal is being established). How can we contribute to reimagining our cities? What kind of agency do we have? Let's unite for a moment of reflection and explore together the possibilities of the creative body in the politics of everyday life.
This is an open invitation to the general public. Artists or scientists who work with research-based creative processes can also find this approach useful. No experience in the arts or research is needed however, and all bodies are welcome.
Arely Landeros is an interdisciplinary artist and cultural promoter. Her work explores the sway between the inner experience of the body and its performative presence in the world. Her research focuses on collaborative processes in the performing arts and the experience of communality through participative art. Arely has completed studies in psychology and has experience in social research and community intervention. She also serves as director and producer of Espontánea!, a multidisciplinary creative residency for emerging professional women, and curator and co- producer of Laboratorio: Condensación, an encounter for artistic interdisciplinary experimentation and its relational context. Arely has been a member of the International Interdisciplinary Artist Consortium since 2017. Her work has been shown in México, United States and Europe. Currently Arely is working on Micrópolis, a nomadic laboratory that explores movement and space through the practice of walking, supported by FONCA from the Secretariat of Culture of México. Vimeo
The Ceremony is You
with eddy kwon
Friday, August 12, 1-3pm
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In this workshop, we'll explore ceremony and ritual as creative, interdisciplinary performance spaces imbued with intention and connected to personal & cultural histories. In our time together, we'll collaboratively create and present a ritual performance that integrates a range of artistic practices, including sound, movement, poetry, object theater, and more. In the session, we may explore the following areas as they relate to ceremony and ritual: personal & cultural histories, diasporic experience, queerness & transness, ancestry & lineage, and friendship. Participating artists are encouraged to bring an object/material that has a rich personal significance to them.
eddy kwon (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. She is a United States Artists Fellow, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, and Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. She collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, Senga Nengudi, and Degenerate Art Ensemble, and is a guest curator & artist with International Contemporary Ensemble. www.eddykwon.net | Instagram
with eddy kwon
Friday, August 12, 1-3pm
Register Here
In this workshop, we'll explore ceremony and ritual as creative, interdisciplinary performance spaces imbued with intention and connected to personal & cultural histories. In our time together, we'll collaboratively create and present a ritual performance that integrates a range of artistic practices, including sound, movement, poetry, object theater, and more. In the session, we may explore the following areas as they relate to ceremony and ritual: personal & cultural histories, diasporic experience, queerness & transness, ancestry & lineage, and friendship. Participating artists are encouraged to bring an object/material that has a rich personal significance to them.
eddy kwon (b. 1989) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Lenapehoking. Her practice connects composition, performance, improvisation, dance, and ceremony to explore transformation & transgression, ritual practice as a tool to queer ancestral lineage, and the use of mythology to connect, obscure, and reveal. As a composer-performer and improviser, she is inspired by Korean folk timbres & inflections, textures & movement from natural environments, and American experimentalism as shaped by the AACM. Her work as a choreographer and movement artist embodies an expressive release and reclamation of colonialism’s spiritual imprints, connecting to both Japanese Butoh and a lineage of queer/trans practitioners of Korean shamanic ritual. She is a United States Artists Fellow, Johnson Fellow at Americans for the Arts, Van Lier Fellow at Roulette Intermedium, and Andrew W. Mellon Artist-in-Residence at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. She collaborates with artists of diverse disciplines, including The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Du Yun, Tomeka Reid, Senga Nengudi, and Degenerate Art Ensemble, and is a guest curator & artist with International Contemporary Ensemble. www.eddykwon.net | Instagram
Creative Fields: a composition lab
with Martín Lanz Landazuri
Friday, August 12, 3:30pm-5:30pm
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An approach to body, objects and landscaping from the design, material and shapes of any given form or source. Collection, interaction and distribution will help us to compose and inhabit creative fields. We want to create places where body meets materiality, and mold to each other while carving the space. Sound and color could frame, be part of the ecosystem, the environment gets transformed by our actions+movement, we can create a situation, redirected and evolve with, by the choices we make.
Interdisciplinary performance artist and arts manager Martin Lanz Landazuri's work has been developed either through creating pieces or organizing events, thought collaborations, and exchanges. A combination and approach to the body and movement via sound, color, architecture, or science. A.I.R of Movement Research 2009, with a journey permeated by many different cultural engagements and interactions that create emergencies that get embodied in his identity and sometimes in others. Martín's work and laboratory experiences have taken him to NYC, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay...and back to Mexico. YouTube
with Martín Lanz Landazuri
Friday, August 12, 3:30pm-5:30pm
Register Here
An approach to body, objects and landscaping from the design, material and shapes of any given form or source. Collection, interaction and distribution will help us to compose and inhabit creative fields. We want to create places where body meets materiality, and mold to each other while carving the space. Sound and color could frame, be part of the ecosystem, the environment gets transformed by our actions+movement, we can create a situation, redirected and evolve with, by the choices we make.
Interdisciplinary performance artist and arts manager Martin Lanz Landazuri's work has been developed either through creating pieces or organizing events, thought collaborations, and exchanges. A combination and approach to the body and movement via sound, color, architecture, or science. A.I.R of Movement Research 2009, with a journey permeated by many different cultural engagements and interactions that create emergencies that get embodied in his identity and sometimes in others. Martín's work and laboratory experiences have taken him to NYC, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Finland, Denmark, Germany, Uruguay...and back to Mexico. YouTube
Love Letters 2 Your Body
with Malcolm-x Betts
Friday, August 12, 3:30pm-5:30pm
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Love Letters 2 Your Body is an open investigation / framework exploring somatic practices as a space to imagine outside the complexities of normalcy. Imagine space inside an embodied practice of care + joy + collective calling + love. The practice starts with writing a love letter to your self as ode and then guided practice to honor your body.
Malcolm-x Betts is a Bronx-based curator, visual, and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. The frame of his artistic work is around using embodiment for finding liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. Betts recently developed and presented excerpts of Black Bodies Gone Down at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts has also been involved with HIV Stops With Me, Edgar Allen Poe Visitor Center (Bronx) and many other projects all around New York City. Betts is also currently working with Luciana Achugar and has performed in works in collaboration with Jonathan Gonzalez and Mersiha Mesihovic. Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
with Malcolm-x Betts
Friday, August 12, 3:30pm-5:30pm
Register Here
Love Letters 2 Your Body is an open investigation / framework exploring somatic practices as a space to imagine outside the complexities of normalcy. Imagine space inside an embodied practice of care + joy + collective calling + love. The practice starts with writing a love letter to your self as ode and then guided practice to honor your body.
Malcolm-x Betts is a Bronx-based curator, visual, and dance artist who believes that art is a transformative vehicle that brings people and communities together. The frame of his artistic work is around using embodiment for finding liberation, Black imagination, and directly engaging with challenges placed on the physical body. Betts recently developed and presented excerpts of Black Bodies Gone Down at La MaMa Umbria International in Spoleto, Italy, Gibney Dance Center, Movement Research at Judson Church, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), The Bronx Museum and Dixon Place. Betts has a community engagement practice allowing artistic freedom and making art accessible to everyone. Betts has also been involved with HIV Stops With Me, Edgar Allen Poe Visitor Center (Bronx) and many other projects all around New York City. Betts is also currently working with Luciana Achugar and has performed in works in collaboration with Jonathan Gonzalez and Mersiha Mesihovic. Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
Day 2:
Engaging: Site, Story, Stage
with Krista DeNio
Saturday, August 13, 10am-12pm
First Street Green Cultural Park
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How do we enter a place and begin to understand it? How do we engage creative action, while listening and learning the stories of this place? What stories want to be told here? Who is telling these stories? Working with approaches to site as a place for making, we will begin with questions for the space itself, for ourselves and our collaborators. Based in my work and training in choreography, somatic practices, ensemble theater making, and a history of creating site-engaged and audience interactive experiences, I will guide workshop participants in collaborative experiments, using what we have, what we find, and what shows up.
Krista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work integrates embodied experience, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. Artistic Director of KD>>MovingGround, Krista is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism, navigating the impacts of injustice and crises we humans have created and face. With her collaborators she builds site-specific, audience-interactive performance experiences where performers, audience participants, and community partners engage in storytelling from various perspectives and choice-making. Each experience is accompanied by forums for interaction and dialogue: opportunities for connection and action. www.movingground.org | www.sfchronicle.com | Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
with Krista DeNio
Saturday, August 13, 10am-12pm
First Street Green Cultural Park
Register Here
How do we enter a place and begin to understand it? How do we engage creative action, while listening and learning the stories of this place? What stories want to be told here? Who is telling these stories? Working with approaches to site as a place for making, we will begin with questions for the space itself, for ourselves and our collaborators. Based in my work and training in choreography, somatic practices, ensemble theater making, and a history of creating site-engaged and audience interactive experiences, I will guide workshop participants in collaborative experiments, using what we have, what we find, and what shows up.
Krista DeNio is an interdisciplinary choreographer, director, performer, writer and educator. She facilitates creative projects based in the principles and practices of ensemble-based theater. Her work integrates embodied experience, civic engagement and human-to-human interaction. Artistic Director of KD>>MovingGround, Krista is committed to engaging interdisciplinary collaboration that bridges performance work, education and activism, navigating the impacts of injustice and crises we humans have created and face. With her collaborators she builds site-specific, audience-interactive performance experiences where performers, audience participants, and community partners engage in storytelling from various perspectives and choice-making. Each experience is accompanied by forums for interaction and dialogue: opportunities for connection and action. www.movingground.org | www.sfchronicle.com | Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
Subsystems of Non-Verbal Communication
with Iskra Shukarova
Saturday, August 13, 10am-12pm
The seven elements of the human communication subsystem (hand movements, posture, body rhythms, speech, eye contact, proxemics and facial expression) as developed by A. Milton Jenkins and Randall D. Johnson, are identified as parts of our ability to communicate “non-verbally”. In this workshop, I will share more about this system which inspired part of my PhD work, and invite participants to improvise, exploring for ourselves how we might embody each of these component parts before improvising collectively with them. For the second part of the workshop, we will work with animal imagery and metaphors, then explore any possible links between the two parts as a continuation of our structured improvisation. We will then share reflection through feedback and a talk, seeking ways to illuminate our connections to our own “subsystems,” ultimately as animals in natures both real and imaginary.
Iskra Shukarova accomplished her contemporary dance studies at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon. In 2002 she obtained her Masters Degree at the Laban Center - London and in 2014, her PhD at the state faculty of Theatre Arts in Skopje. She has completed numerous dance trainings with established artists, and her pieces have toured regionally and internationally. Iskra has been honored with fellowships such as CEC ArtsLink (New York) and DanceWeb (Vienna). She was a principal soloist in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet beginning in 1991, and one of the founders of Lokomotiva- Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. She was also the co-founder and co-programmer of the contemporary dance festival Locomotion in Skopje and one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy project. Iskra is also a member of Movement Research’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing network, and a member of the dance board as part of the Macedonian ITI Center. Since 2010, Iskra has been a professor at the University St. Cyril and Methodius- Music Faculty - Department of Dance pedagogy in Skopje. www.slobodenpecat.mk | www.youtube.be | Facebook
with Iskra Shukarova
Saturday, August 13, 10am-12pm
The seven elements of the human communication subsystem (hand movements, posture, body rhythms, speech, eye contact, proxemics and facial expression) as developed by A. Milton Jenkins and Randall D. Johnson, are identified as parts of our ability to communicate “non-verbally”. In this workshop, I will share more about this system which inspired part of my PhD work, and invite participants to improvise, exploring for ourselves how we might embody each of these component parts before improvising collectively with them. For the second part of the workshop, we will work with animal imagery and metaphors, then explore any possible links between the two parts as a continuation of our structured improvisation. We will then share reflection through feedback and a talk, seeking ways to illuminate our connections to our own “subsystems,” ultimately as animals in natures both real and imaginary.
Iskra Shukarova accomplished her contemporary dance studies at the National Conservatorium Superior in Lyon. In 2002 she obtained her Masters Degree at the Laban Center - London and in 2014, her PhD at the state faculty of Theatre Arts in Skopje. She has completed numerous dance trainings with established artists, and her pieces have toured regionally and internationally. Iskra has been honored with fellowships such as CEC ArtsLink (New York) and DanceWeb (Vienna). She was a principal soloist in the Macedonian Opera and Ballet beginning in 1991, and one of the founders of Lokomotiva- Centre for New Initiatives in Arts and Culture. She was also the co-founder and co-programmer of the contemporary dance festival Locomotion in Skopje and one of the founders of the Balkan Dance Network and the NOMAD Dance Academy project. Iskra is also a member of Movement Research’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing network, and a member of the dance board as part of the Macedonian ITI Center. Since 2010, Iskra has been a professor at the University St. Cyril and Methodius- Music Faculty - Department of Dance pedagogy in Skopje. www.slobodenpecat.mk | www.youtube.be | Facebook
Emotional Wandering
with Cosmin Manolescu
Saturday, August 13, 1:30pm-3:30pm
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Emotional Wandering is a dance experience and exploration in the world of emotions, where the body becomes the stage. The workshop is open to dance artists and general audience who are willing to get out of their comfort zones and explore the emotional body, a holistic exercise proposed by Cosmin Manolescu in which several participants (givers) will work in the same time with one body (the receiver), using their positive energy, giving massage and gentle touches and using different textures and small dancing improvisation. The workshop will close with a final 15 minute dance wandering session outside the dance studio. Please bring your headphones, something to play music from, and a playlist with you. And be ready to enter with grace into the unknown.
Cosmin Manolescu is a dance maker, curator and the executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation, as well as the founder and co-artistic director of AREAL – space for choreographic development, a new artist collective run space in Bucharest. He is currently interested in cross-border cultural exchange, leading a series of international projects taking place across the world, coaching young artists, and creating projects that challenge audiences in Romania and beyond. Since 1997 Cosmin has played a very important role in the development of contemporary dance, and in the creation of the National Dance Center Bucharest, which began in 2004. Beginning in 2015, Cosmin has been developing his own method– the emotional body – that he is currently teaching in his workshops and using in his projects and dance retreats. His recent artistic projects include Dans-Wanderer, a tree-artistic project with performances and dance retreats in nature. In 2021 he co-created and performed In the Search of Lost Body (2021, AREAL production), and produced the Private Bodies dance installation and a new version, Private Show. www.danswanderer.ro | www.dans.ro |www.arealcolectiv.ro | Facebook | Instagram
with Cosmin Manolescu
Saturday, August 13, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Register Here
Emotional Wandering is a dance experience and exploration in the world of emotions, where the body becomes the stage. The workshop is open to dance artists and general audience who are willing to get out of their comfort zones and explore the emotional body, a holistic exercise proposed by Cosmin Manolescu in which several participants (givers) will work in the same time with one body (the receiver), using their positive energy, giving massage and gentle touches and using different textures and small dancing improvisation. The workshop will close with a final 15 minute dance wandering session outside the dance studio. Please bring your headphones, something to play music from, and a playlist with you. And be ready to enter with grace into the unknown.
Cosmin Manolescu is a dance maker, curator and the executive director of Gabriela Tudor Foundation, as well as the founder and co-artistic director of AREAL – space for choreographic development, a new artist collective run space in Bucharest. He is currently interested in cross-border cultural exchange, leading a series of international projects taking place across the world, coaching young artists, and creating projects that challenge audiences in Romania and beyond. Since 1997 Cosmin has played a very important role in the development of contemporary dance, and in the creation of the National Dance Center Bucharest, which began in 2004. Beginning in 2015, Cosmin has been developing his own method– the emotional body – that he is currently teaching in his workshops and using in his projects and dance retreats. His recent artistic projects include Dans-Wanderer, a tree-artistic project with performances and dance retreats in nature. In 2021 he co-created and performed In the Search of Lost Body (2021, AREAL production), and produced the Private Bodies dance installation and a new version, Private Show. www.danswanderer.ro | www.dans.ro |www.arealcolectiv.ro | Facebook | Instagram
Body of Voice
with Ana Sofrenovic
Saturday, August 13, 1:30pm-3:30pm
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This workshop is aimed at bringing out the voice in its most natural, unobstructed form. Exploring one’s own authentic vocal expression through improvising, exploring inner listening, and discovering how it responds and resonates within its inner and outer environment. Our time together will give participants a sense of moving and challenging their own perception of what their body of voice is as well as awakening their bodies in the process.
Ana Sofrenovic is an award-winning film and stage actress, vocalist, director and educator. She has played leading roles in some of the most significant film and theater productions in the former Yugoslavia and has appeared in several TV series for the BBC and ITV. Her original works, which often challenge concepts of theatre and filmmaking, include commissioned productions for Belgrade Jazz Festival. Ana received an artist residency from CEC Arts link and two Independent Project Awards for her collaboration with the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, educator and producer Peter Sciscioli. She was also selected to take part in the masterclass and Young Artists Concert by Meredith Monk at Carnegie Hall. Ana has attended workshops with artists such as David Moss, Shelley Hirsch, Jaap Blonk, Joan La Barbara, John Giorno, Phil Minton, Tran Quang Hai, Maria Hussman, and many others. She also took part as an artist in residence and teacher with the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium held at Earthdance (Massachusetts) in 2013, supported by The Suitcase Fund (New York Live Arts), and online in 2020 supported by Movement Research’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing program. Ana currently works as a professor of vocal technique for actors at Faculty of Arts Pristina in Serbia. Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
with Ana Sofrenovic
Saturday, August 13, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Register Here
This workshop is aimed at bringing out the voice in its most natural, unobstructed form. Exploring one’s own authentic vocal expression through improvising, exploring inner listening, and discovering how it responds and resonates within its inner and outer environment. Our time together will give participants a sense of moving and challenging their own perception of what their body of voice is as well as awakening their bodies in the process.
Ana Sofrenovic is an award-winning film and stage actress, vocalist, director and educator. She has played leading roles in some of the most significant film and theater productions in the former Yugoslavia and has appeared in several TV series for the BBC and ITV. Her original works, which often challenge concepts of theatre and filmmaking, include commissioned productions for Belgrade Jazz Festival. Ana received an artist residency from CEC Arts link and two Independent Project Awards for her collaboration with the Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, educator and producer Peter Sciscioli. She was also selected to take part in the masterclass and Young Artists Concert by Meredith Monk at Carnegie Hall. Ana has attended workshops with artists such as David Moss, Shelley Hirsch, Jaap Blonk, Joan La Barbara, John Giorno, Phil Minton, Tran Quang Hai, Maria Hussman, and many others. She also took part as an artist in residence and teacher with the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium held at Earthdance (Massachusetts) in 2013, supported by The Suitcase Fund (New York Live Arts), and online in 2020 supported by Movement Research’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing program. Ana currently works as a professor of vocal technique for actors at Faculty of Arts Pristina in Serbia. Vimeo | Facebook | Instagram
Lemon Water Ma’a Nana (Finding Your Own Path)
with Sahar Damoni
Saturday, August 13, 4pm-6pm
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In the Middle East and North African regions, lemon water with mint is consumed to cleanse the body of toxins and impurities. This workshop is an opportunity to clear the head and heart in order to dive into an exploration of our personal movement language and intuitive artistic voice. The workshop combines exercises drawn from meditative, somatic, dance, and writing practices which Sahar Damoni has used to develop her choreographic work. We will use these tools to get in touch with our bodies and ourselves and develop and react to movement material. The workshop is built on the importance of reciprocity between body and mind and the therapeutic power of movement. It is an opportunity for introspection and personal research. Together, we will listen to the whispering of our dreams and enjoy the exploration toward reaching them.
Sahar Damoni is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Shafa-amer in the Galilee whose body of work deals with the challenges she faces as a woman in an Arab and Palestinian society. Prior to making her own work, she danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and received a Bachelor of Dance and Movement for Practicing Teachers from Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts. Sahar’s work has been presented in various festivals and platforms in Palestine/Israel and abroad, including Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama in New York, in North Africa, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Morocco. She has also participated in programs supported by NYU, Jacob’s Pillow and the Goethe Institute, and lectured about her work at the Tel Aviv University, Sapir College, Kibbutzim College, and Ben Gurion University. Most recently Sahar was commissioned to create a new work for the Staatstheater Kassel, and will perform her work internationally as part of the Tanztage Potsdam Festival in Germany and the Hangar festival in Pesaro, Italy. www.sahardamoni.com | www.cambridge.org | Facebook | Instagram
with Sahar Damoni
Saturday, August 13, 4pm-6pm
Register Here
In the Middle East and North African regions, lemon water with mint is consumed to cleanse the body of toxins and impurities. This workshop is an opportunity to clear the head and heart in order to dive into an exploration of our personal movement language and intuitive artistic voice. The workshop combines exercises drawn from meditative, somatic, dance, and writing practices which Sahar Damoni has used to develop her choreographic work. We will use these tools to get in touch with our bodies and ourselves and develop and react to movement material. The workshop is built on the importance of reciprocity between body and mind and the therapeutic power of movement. It is an opportunity for introspection and personal research. Together, we will listen to the whispering of our dreams and enjoy the exploration toward reaching them.
Sahar Damoni is a Palestinian dancer, choreographer, and dance teacher from Shafa-amer in the Galilee whose body of work deals with the challenges she faces as a woman in an Arab and Palestinian society. Prior to making her own work, she danced with the Kibbutz Contemporary Dance Company and received a Bachelor of Dance and Movement for Practicing Teachers from Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and Arts. Sahar’s work has been presented in various festivals and platforms in Palestine/Israel and abroad, including Movement Research at the Judson Church and La Mama in New York, in North Africa, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico and Morocco. She has also participated in programs supported by NYU, Jacob’s Pillow and the Goethe Institute, and lectured about her work at the Tel Aviv University, Sapir College, Kibbutzim College, and Ben Gurion University. Most recently Sahar was commissioned to create a new work for the Staatstheater Kassel, and will perform her work internationally as part of the Tanztage Potsdam Festival in Germany and the Hangar festival in Pesaro, Italy. www.sahardamoni.com | www.cambridge.org | Facebook | Instagram
Standing, Walking, Moving in Context
with Ivana Ivković
Saturday, August 13, 4pm-6pm
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This workshop will explore several examples of artivist (artist/activist) calls to action and their embedded aesthetics and politics as a starting point for discussion and a practical exercise. We will address questions of historical memory, identity, citizenship, governing, labour, gender, community, public, protest and city from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. Participants will have a chance to give shape to their own calls to action and rethink their own agency in the process of communal meaning making. Artists and non-artists, citizens and non-citizens, social butterflies and misanthropes - all are invited to the conversation.
Ivana Ivković is a dramaturg whose interests lie at the intersections of theater, contemporary dance, new media technologies, sound art, and radiophony. In collaboration with other artists and as a member of Zagreb-based performance collective BADco. she has co-authored a series of artistic projects for the stage, gallery, screen, radio waves and page since 2004 that have been presented internationally, including at the Steirischer Herbst Festival, Berlin’s Volksbühne, the Venice Biennale and Antistatic International Festival. A former editor-in-chief of Frakcija Journal for Performing Arts (2008-2012), she has also published in other publications (Maska, The Drama Review, TkH, Jungle Juice Magazine, Imagined Theatres…). Ivana is a recipient of several fellowships (Akademie Schloss Solitude, CEC ArtsLink), teaches at the Alma Mater Europaea Dance Academy MA program, regularly holds workshops and presents at international festivals, symposia and conferences. www.badco.hr | Instagram
with Ivana Ivković
Saturday, August 13, 4pm-6pm
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This workshop will explore several examples of artivist (artist/activist) calls to action and their embedded aesthetics and politics as a starting point for discussion and a practical exercise. We will address questions of historical memory, identity, citizenship, governing, labour, gender, community, public, protest and city from interdisciplinary and intercultural perspectives. Participants will have a chance to give shape to their own calls to action and rethink their own agency in the process of communal meaning making. Artists and non-artists, citizens and non-citizens, social butterflies and misanthropes - all are invited to the conversation.
Ivana Ivković is a dramaturg whose interests lie at the intersections of theater, contemporary dance, new media technologies, sound art, and radiophony. In collaboration with other artists and as a member of Zagreb-based performance collective BADco. she has co-authored a series of artistic projects for the stage, gallery, screen, radio waves and page since 2004 that have been presented internationally, including at the Steirischer Herbst Festival, Berlin’s Volksbühne, the Venice Biennale and Antistatic International Festival. A former editor-in-chief of Frakcija Journal for Performing Arts (2008-2012), she has also published in other publications (Maska, The Drama Review, TkH, Jungle Juice Magazine, Imagined Theatres…). Ivana is a recipient of several fellowships (Akademie Schloss Solitude, CEC ArtsLink), teaches at the Alma Mater Europaea Dance Academy MA program, regularly holds workshops and presents at international festivals, symposia and conferences. www.badco.hr | Instagram
Peter Sciscioli (Facilitator) is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary performer, creator, educator, and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater, and film. Since 1997 he has been creating performance works through a choreographic lens with a wide variety of collaborators for concert, site-specific, and theater venues around the world. In 2008, he created Peter Sciscioli Performance Projects, and in 2012 founded the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium, a network of artists and producers working across disciplines and cultures. As a performer, he has worked extensively with Meredith Monk, Jane Comfort, and Daria Faïn, and appeared in work by Jonathan Bepler/Matthew Barney, Ping Chong, DD Dorvillier, Susan Marshall, and Philip Glass/Mary Zimmerman, among others. He has taught his approach to Voice as Movement in countries from Mexico to North Macedonia, co-initiated The Sounding Body workshop series at Movement Research (MR) in New York, and offers private lessons and coachings. Peter has been honored to receive support from MR’s GPS/Global Practice Sharing program to attend meetings with partners in Eastern Europe and the Caucuses, and to help bring several artists from the region to the U.S. to participate in IIAC and the Interdisciplinary Arts Lab. www.petersciscioli.com | Facebook | Instagram
This project is supported by the 2022 GPS/Global Practice Sharing program of Movement Research with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund.
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Images information:
1. A dancing portrait of Sahar Damoni taken from above. They lay on the ground mouth wide open. Left arm above the head and fingers grabbing the top teeth, tongue sticking out, left hand grabbing the right bicep. Photo by Asya Skorik.
2. A close-up portrait of Arely Landeros wearing a brightly colored shirt, hands folded over her left knee. Looking at the camera with a serious expression and purple lips. Photo by Natalia Luna.
3. eddy kwon, draped in pink fabric, holding a bundle above their right shoulder, moves with eyes closed against a sand dunes backdrop. Photo courtesy of the artist.
4. Martín Lanz Landazuri, wearing a black shirt with white vertical stripes, stands looking to one side, against a blackboard with white horizontal stripes. Photo courtesy of the artist.
5. A dancing photo of Malcolm-x Betts in yellow pants and a loose white shirt, their head titled back and arms open to the sky. Photo by Nicole Harris.
6. A dancing portrait of Krista DeNio in a white, sleeveless shirt and blue jeans in a green field with hands reaching toward a blue sky. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
7. A close-up portrait of Iskra Shukarova looking at the camera, wearing a hot pink shirt, hand extended to reveal just her eyes. Photo courtesy of the artist.
8. A portrait of Cosmin Manolescu wearing large earphones, holding an illuminated lightbulb and smelling a pot of flowers. Photo by Gemma Riggs.
9. A close-up portrait of Ana Sofrenovic looking to one side, wearing a white collared shirt and multi-layered necklace. Photo by Dusan Novakovic.
10. Sahar Damoni dancing with two fingers of their right hand circling their eye, left arm extended, in a maroon lace shirt and white dress. Photo by Tamar Lamm.
11. Ivana Ivković sitting at a desk in a bright room, with a large ream of paper gathering on the floor. Photo by Tomislav Medak.
12. Portrait of Peter Sciscioli wearing glasses and a blue casual shirt and smiling vividly at the camera. Photo by Barbara Dietl.
1. A dancing portrait of Sahar Damoni taken from above. They lay on the ground mouth wide open. Left arm above the head and fingers grabbing the top teeth, tongue sticking out, left hand grabbing the right bicep. Photo by Asya Skorik.
2. A close-up portrait of Arely Landeros wearing a brightly colored shirt, hands folded over her left knee. Looking at the camera with a serious expression and purple lips. Photo by Natalia Luna.
3. eddy kwon, draped in pink fabric, holding a bundle above their right shoulder, moves with eyes closed against a sand dunes backdrop. Photo courtesy of the artist.
4. Martín Lanz Landazuri, wearing a black shirt with white vertical stripes, stands looking to one side, against a blackboard with white horizontal stripes. Photo courtesy of the artist.
5. A dancing photo of Malcolm-x Betts in yellow pants and a loose white shirt, their head titled back and arms open to the sky. Photo by Nicole Harris.
6. A dancing portrait of Krista DeNio in a white, sleeveless shirt and blue jeans in a green field with hands reaching toward a blue sky. Photo by Anna M. Maynard.
7. A close-up portrait of Iskra Shukarova looking at the camera, wearing a hot pink shirt, hand extended to reveal just her eyes. Photo courtesy of the artist.
8. A portrait of Cosmin Manolescu wearing large earphones, holding an illuminated lightbulb and smelling a pot of flowers. Photo by Gemma Riggs.
9. A close-up portrait of Ana Sofrenovic looking to one side, wearing a white collared shirt and multi-layered necklace. Photo by Dusan Novakovic.
10. Sahar Damoni dancing with two fingers of their right hand circling their eye, left arm extended, in a maroon lace shirt and white dress. Photo by Tamar Lamm.
11. Ivana Ivković sitting at a desk in a bright room, with a large ream of paper gathering on the floor. Photo by Tomislav Medak.
12. Portrait of Peter Sciscioli wearing glasses and a blue casual shirt and smiling vividly at the camera. Photo by Barbara Dietl.