RAISE Moves on Velvet Night!

RAISE Moves on Velvet Night

Saturday, April 30th 7pm

2nd Ave at 13th Street

Improv: approx. 10 minutes

Thank you to Professor Thom's Bar, Devin, all our supportive friends and art-lovers who watched RAISE Moves and partied at Velvet Night!  Please enjoy our footage below.  Video soon!

In the spirit of Velvet Night, we tried a slightly different angle of improv for RAISE Moves.  Our movement inspiration was guided by the incorporation of a red spandex cloth, which emphasized momentum and weight-sharing in a new, challenging way.  Paired with dramatic masks and heels, RAISE Moves was certainly a spectacle!

The study of improvisation continues:  It's a whole new experience with such an integral prop.  Finding the movement limitations and opportunities with it takes a little searching, along with a honed sense of communication with each other.  Definitely worth another look...

See you at our main stage show June 17-18, 2011!

Balcony view from Professor Thom's

The silent auction art gallery by amazing artists  including Daryl Batan & Jonathan Bush

TRADE Moves

TRADE Moves
Wednesday March 16th, 1pm
KB & ABM
The Charging Bull at Bowling Green/Wall St.
Improv Length:  16 minutes

 

The rain cleared up in time for our TRADE moves that afternoon!  With so much direct inspiration--the symbolism of the bull, the people of Wall Street--it was a mindful experience as we kept moving across the line of emotional gesture and dance.  Experimenting with the levels of facial expression versus redirecting it into the body was another choice to consider.

A special thank you to Big Red One and Art Piccolo for their support and approval of our performance there!

Photos/Marco Monti

CUBED Moves

Outside the Box
1pm Sunday, February 27th
Astor Place, New York City
Dancers:  KB and ABM
Length:  25 minutes

Video Music:  clip from "There's a Hole in My Bucket"/Reservation Hall Band, 
and live music from nearby street musicians that inspired the sound theme!

Thank you to all who sought us out and to the spontaneous audience of  passer-by who stopped to experience us forming a linear pair! Sunday's sun lit up our cubic costumes and geometric movement, and Astor Place's central location provided audience involvement. We continue to find dancing with iconic street sculptures reveals a varying range for improvisation development. Size, landscape, and purpose of the art constantly shift the balance between interacting with each other and the sculpture. We plan to further investigate the cube in the future with a quartet of performers, so stay tuned!

Photos/Nimi Kadar

 

REMIX Moves

2pm Saturday, January 8th 2011
Hudson River Pier between Bank St. & West 11th St.
Approx. 20 minutes
Dancers: Karesia Batan & Anna Brown Massey

Inspiriting our TREE Moves adornments with a West Village vibe
and Hudson River horizon.

This part of Hudson River Park was especially dynamic because we essentially worked with three different landscapes in one site.  Progression and expanding transitions became a focus that we are excited to keep exploring.

Video Edit/Richy Salgado
Music/selections from the Amelie soundtrack
Landscape Photo/ John Munson, The Star-Ledger
Movement Photos/Nimi Kadar

TREE Moves

1pm Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010
Rockefeller Promenade, 50th @ 5th Ave.
Approx. 6 minutes
Dancers: Karesia Batan & Anna Brown Massey

Dancing at Rock Plaza was grandly festive but sadly cut short by some scrooges with security guard hats. You loved our costumes so much, however, that we'll employ them again in REMIX Moves. See you next month!

Movement Photos by Nimi Kadar

LOVE Moves

1:30pm Sunday, November 21st, 2010
Robert Indiana's LOVE sculpture

6th Avenue at 55th St, New York City
Approx. 20 minutes
Dancers: Karesia Batan & Anna Brown Massey

This is our first site for the Moves Project. Working with an iconic sculpture, street life, and public traffic provided us with endless inspiration for experimentation. We'll develop this study from site to site, exploring how we relate to our environment and to each other. Expect more awesome improvs every month!




Video Editing/Richy Salgado
Music/'Palmyra' by Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer



Photos/Nimi Kadar