so, i will make this brief update:
performances/happenings/etc.
mondays at judson church: movement research presents free performances every monday at 8.00pm at Judson Church (55 Washington Sq. West). It features low-tech performances with many artists of diverse content, influence, and presentation.
Wednesday's at DTW studios: Movement Research also presents informal works-in-progress showings on Wednesday nights (be sure to check the website for specific dates) at DTW: 8th Ave and 19th Street. Totally cool.
saturday dance jams: a few friends of mine will be organizing informal, open dance jams (with a basis in contact improvisation) every saturday from 1.30pm-til duskish at Central Park. We will meet at the East 67th Street entrance and picnic, play, move. Musicians, movers, non-movers (rocks?), artists, enthusiasts, fun people encouraged to attend. Dress comfortably as we will partner, lift, roll, etc. Wear comfy shoes as well.
Bushwick Art Festival: http://bos2010.artsinbushwick.org/ There will be free and low cost gallery and performance art around Bushwick in the early summer. Check it out!
There are more, I will update. Run through the city barefoot this summer (seriously, don't... but metaphorically do hehe).
melissa west performs:
SUNDAY, JUNE 27th, TRISKELION ARTS CENTER, 7.00PM: WAXworks 2010 SPRING SERIES:
- I will present a work-in-progress, They Taste Good to Her, a solo work. I would love to see familiar faces, new faces, people who would like to see my work. This is the first "big" non-Hunter related performance for me, so I am very excited and continue to refine the piece, work it out, and set it for the larger stage. Exciting!! Check out more info on the series here at WAXworks website: http://www.wax205.com/calendar.php
- I performed on April 8-9 at Hunter's first official Alumni Concert Festival. I will be receiving photographs and performance footage very soon and will post it here for you :)
i am pretty happy the springtime is finally here. it is not only springtime, but my first in nyc outside the mother's den of my parent's home. since i am no longer living at home with my parents, i am able to explore the city in a much more personal way.
mary ellen ate over my house last night. she was one of my first dinner guests :). afterward, we watched my dances in chronological order: Theseus Rides Away, the impressionists do a dance, and Pictures: A study on the paintings of Edward Hopper. She said the last one, which featured four movements, was both nostalgic and danced with warning. It's interesting to think about the process. As I made those four movements- four dances connected but maintaining their own context, my life was changing: i was graduating, mourning my grandmother (and grandfather and uncle), falling in love really for the first time. It was a terribly romantic time, one filled with moments of reverence for the world around me as well as terror and expectation over the future. So, it is nice to know that those things, embedded in the subtext, resonated subtly.
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the smell of sweet cherry blossoms, pancakes in the park, chalked sidewalks, nostalgia, springtime rehearsals, the sun pouring into the south studio, bruce springsteen, a body of work in development, wistful springtime, i love you so.
last night i watched lost in translation as i drank tea.
-m
