Open Movement
- The Keith Haring Theatre
- October 2 - December 11 (Closed: November 27)
Open Movement offers free weekly movement improvisations and artist-led workshops in Performance Space’s theatres. Participants are invited to move to curated soundscapes by various artists and musicians together but in no particular way, every Sunday from 12-4pm. At 4pm we will shift to Open Movement Workshops where various artists share their self-proclaimed practices of embodiment, dance, and performance exploration.
In its second year, we are working with artists who are interested in the role embodiment can play in the process of healing. Artists will build these practices over a series of three workshops or in one-off emerging practice forms, offering the opportunity for the artists and participants to evolve their practice over time. The workshops inform the improvisation and vice versa as we build on ways of regulating the nervous system and expanding what it means to process information in the body. Once a month a dj or musician will be invited to play live for open improvisation. *No dance experience of any kind is necessary nor is it necessary to attend every class in a series. But you’re welcome to!
Theatres are located on the 4th floor with elevator access, gender-neutral restrooms, and a sprung floor equipped with a house sound system.
Open Movement is a revival of the eponymous program that started in 1979 and was at the foundational and collectivizing core of Performance Space 122 (now Performance Space New York).
Open Movement is facilitated by Monica Mirabile and Ana Beatriz Sepúlveda, with workshops and musicians organized by Monica Mirabile. For any questions, Monica can be reached at monica@performancespacenewyork.org. Visitors are encouraged to take a look at Open Movement’s Community Guidelines.
Free with RSVP
There is a space inside of us that is much wider than we are led to believe- and with the body in motion, we aim to indulge it. Each week we will explore a different access point into our minds, matter and imagination to expand how we perceive and move through our reality. Through group/duet movement, writing, choreography and improvisation we will explore lessons and stories the body reveals and move outside of our perceived limitations.
Free with RSVP
There is a space inside of us that is much wider than we are led to believe- and with the body in motion, we aim to indulge it. Each week we will explore a different access point into our minds, matter and imagination to expand how we perceive and move through our reality. Through group/duet movement, writing, choreography and improvisation we will explore lessons and stories the body reveals and move outside of our perceived limitations.
Free with RSVP
There is a space inside of us that is much wider than we are led to believe- and with the body in motion, we aim to indulge it. Each week we will explore a different access point into our minds, matter and imagination to expand how we perceive and move through our reality. Through group/duet movement, writing, choreography and improvisation we will explore lessons and stories the body reveals and move outside of our perceived limitations.
Free with RSVP
Visual projections as movement prompts live instrumentation and musical selections by Jazzy Romero.
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Movement of “Transcestor” Spirit is a practice rooted in ancestor dialogue, including but not limited to movement, sound making, spoken word, and community building. Participants in this workshop will be guided through a series of physical and audial ruptures, used in Ms. z’s work, and will be asked to share personal testimonies of safety.
Free with RSVP
Movement of “Transcestor” Spirit is a practice rooted in ancestor dialogue, including but not limited to movement, sound making, spoken word, and community building. Participants in this workshop will be guided through a series of physical and audial ruptures, used in Ms. z’s work, and will be asked to share personal testimonies of safety.
Free with RSVP
Movement of “Transcestor” Spirit is a practice rooted in ancestor dialogue, including but not limited to movement, sound making, spoken word, and community building. Participants in this workshop will be guided through a series of physical and audial ruptures, used in Ms. z’s work, and will be asked to share personal testimonies of safety.
EXPANSIVE RADIANT BODY is a workshop that focuses on the awareness of the psyche and how it informs our physicality. With eyes closed, we begin with improvisation as a form of guided, physical meditation. This warm up offers possibilities to sync with our individual groove, allowing exploration of movement repercussions that start at the body’s core and reach out externally. We connect emotions with movement, and travel to proper phrasing exercises through Dynamic Release Technique, animal-like floorwork, spirals and turns. Tension is used as staccato and relaxation as legato. Through musical anatomical efficiency, we finally arrive at the “Available Body,” where we connect quality, detail and transitional phrasing with the external space surrounding our bodies. All elements weave together in a choreography that covers internal, conceptual, physical and environmental expansion.
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We will play with the ‘fawn’ response to perceived danger — in which we bend over backwards, appease the source of threat, or merge with their wishes and needs.
Through improvisational movement and writing we will collectively tune into ourselves. We will un-merge. We will feel fuller in our bodies and in relationship to each other and find embodied spaces of agency.
No dance experience is required.
Open Movement will be facilitated by performers in Remains Persist. While performers lead a scored participatory improvisation, the other half of the space will be curtained off to offer a low stimulus space to move, read, sleep, hang, feel, and coexist. Please join the clinic.
Exploding Joints
Voice & Movement
Call Ja Baby
In this moisture between our tears of where we are and where we want to be.
Your Liberation is my Liberation
Shake
Bodyroll
*Donations are welcomed for artist-led workshops.