Open Movement – Winter/Spring 2025
- Keith Haring Theater
- January 19 - June 8, 2025
Check out the schedule below!
Curated and organized by Monica Mirable
Every Sunday from noon to 4pm, we invite you to our theaters where Open Movement is held. Curated and organized by Monica Mirabile, Open Movement is a free program open to all ages, abilities, and levels of experience that offers both space for self-guided movement practice and artist-led workshops. Here, participants are invited to move in whatever way they choose—stretching, drawing, dancing, rehearsing, and observing if they don’t feel called to move. Folks in the Open Movement community describe this environment as a sacred space for self-discovery, connection, and grounding towards personal and collective practices.
At 4pm, our program shifts to feature workshops guided by artists and practitioners. Each week, these sessions offer a unique opportunity for participants to engage in two hours of participatory practice, exploring a range of themes from movement techniques, to performance philosophies, wellness practices and beyond. Open Movement workshop facilitators are a part of our extended Performance Space network: many of these artists have been regular participants in Open Movement and have created or hosted programs in our theaters.
This season features workshops by Simone Coonrod, Kate Williams, Katya Borkov, Shamar Watt, Iliana Penichet-Ramirez, Ryan McNamara, CyX, Remy Maelan of Goodwitch, Summer Breeze, Emily Allen & Leah Hennessey, Kinlaw, Camilo Restrepo, Angela Trimbur, Daniel Ryan and Performance Space New York’s Production Manager Sarai Frazier (presenting a workshop as part of their Alternative Education series).
As part of our commitment to process-focused initiatives, throughout the year we also host WIP Feedback Front, a showcase of works in progress from artists, many of whom are part of the Open Movement community. Artists present their projects in a casual, supportive atmosphere to get feedback while the works are still being developed. Audience members are invited to share their responses anonymously, creating open exchange between creators and observers. This season WIP will be showcased on February 23 (Round Robin Play), April 6 (Performance Dinner with Halo Perez), and June 8 (Open Mic).
At Open Movement, performance is for everyone, whether you’re experienced or a newcomer. Our mission is to provide a welcoming space for curious-minds to reconnect, ground themselves, and expand their perspectives, wherever they may be on their journey.
Where are you? What’s going on dans l’intérieur question mark
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Storytelling is what keeps us alive and connected to each other. Stories go on to live beyond ourselves. Raging On and Letting Go is a way for us to release certain tensions and emotions being held within the body. In this workshop we will use movement to understand the depth of our own stories that we each carry within us.
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Who are you on the dance floor? What does this liminal space allow us to embody or cast off? How can we move through the tension between who we are, who we once were, and who we long to be? And what does it look like to do this together, in relationship with the other moving members of this ecosystem?
Together, we’ll engage with standard tango choreography and learn about the varied musical and cultural influences which shape the dance’s origins and evolution. We’ll better understand how the desire to assert power and pursue passion in the face of loss and othering has motivated ballroom styles across cultures, using this context to explore how we might break from or expand upon tango’s traditions with reverence and intention. Through movement, we’ll consider the hotbed of tensions which defined tango’s birth in the newly industrialized, late 19th century Buenos Aires, and explore the pursuit of glamor which colored the instructor’s study of ballroom dance as a first generation American of Russian descent.
2/16 Free with RSVP
Living notes…
I’m devoted to Krump forms, Animist forms from the global south, and experimental/avant-garde forms : these forms are all articulations of the underground. For me they have the capacity to express pure potential and essence that lies in the deep of the dark. …in which WE will share with you.
I have lots of questions and lots of feelings of desires — untold!
“being ready” as practice.
Body = a site that articulates “language of landscapes” (Glissant) and “points of collisions”
(We) = “really” expressed in baby talk = deep passionate desire to mobilize and connect
I (we) wanna be ready for the incarnation and the rapture, into another mode of relation!
I’m curious about how bodies and collective bodies has the capacity to (we) TRANS-form into gargantuan organisms through plugging into the earth wide web. (eww.we.rhiz)
I (we) wanna get caught UP
I (we) wanna get DOWN into something.
I (we) wanna go to that guttural dark ugly place of utter beauty in me and make sweet hardcore love. Why don’t we (we) embrace the gargantuan shadows of our spirit in our dance, to have a fighting chance against economies of destruction?
..You (we) want to be ready?
What does it mean to be human. ??
– Reproduction of destruction
– Economy of commerce
What does it mean to be a beast/primitive ?
-embracing all of one’s sensuousness-
– Reproduction of life
– Economy of life
Humans have an innate ability to read layers of meaning into gestures. What are your moves giving? Any performance is acting, any movement is dancing. We will look at how minute shifts in gesture and tone can change audience interpretation.
Enter a world of gaps, voids, and openings.
Cavities, gaps, mouthfuls. Inhale, exhale.
We will map the soft edges of inner spaces.
Cruise the contours of openings and pauses.
Hollow. Swallow. Hover on the brink of no-space.
Bodies talking through silence, through holes—
What does it mean to be filled? What does it mean to stay open?
A blend of voice and movement to release all that keeps us tir3d and burned OUT.
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Lighting is like painting. It has color, direction, texture, shadow, depth, darkness , sharpness and so much more. Come explore this movement based design as we learn the physical + emotional properties of lighting and its aide in storytelling.
Participants will come together as an ensemble to unlock creative impulsivity and develop new work. This workshop is open to performers, writers, artists and anyone willing to explore the limits of physical expression, get into their feelings, and precisely memorize text.
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” – C.G Jung
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GLYPHOGRAPHY
(n.) lit. the act of writing a
GLYPH
from Ancient Greek “γλυφή”
I. a 2 or 3 dimensional symbol representing a sound, word, or idea
II. a carved sculpture
III. a cut hole, a void
Through sensory meditation/movement/games, we’ll explore relationships between body and space, body and meaning, dance and divination.
Practice is an open field with many access points and possible modes of participation.
WHAT YOUU OWN ONWS YOu
from the world of gut ccheck, a vocal & movement workshop for all levels. this two hour experimental workshop focuses on momentum, sspeed, balance, and tyypos of the body/voice.
We dance trusting in the intelligence of the process and the body. How do we expand that same trust in other life processes?
The Fool does not know the way, but is open to what life offers them.
The Page Of Wands does not have the experience, but trusts that they can do it.
Let us dance to uncertainty, find joy in it and celebrate life with movement, oracle, play and imagination.
This workshop proposes to create an experience in the body and a memory in the unconscious through a somatic and symbolic journey.
Practice based on psychosomagic, more information in camarstudio.com/workshops
Sun, Jun 1, 2025 | 4pm—Angela Trimbur, Permission Slip: Guided Movement and Inner Child Choreography
Join Angela Trimbur on a passionate adventure to unlock the blocks that hold you back from true celebration in dance. Through imaginative confidence exercises and unapologetic movement, this workshop invites you to break out of your shell and rediscover the joy of being fully, wildly yourself.
Free with RSVP
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