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Saturday, May 25, 2013 @ 7:30 pm

Movement Research Spring Festival 2013 – Burning Down the House

The Movement Research Spring Festival 2013 present "Burning Down the House"

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Co-Presented with Roulette

Works by Molly Poerstel-Taylor, Luke George, Stanley Love & Jillian Peña

Curated by Hilary Clark, Mina Nishimura, Antonio Ramos & Vanessa Anspaugh

Hold tight wait till the party’s over
Hold tight we’re in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house
–from "Burning Down the House," lyrics by Talking Heads

Roulette welcomes the Movement Research Spring Festival 2013 – "Alternate/Shelter" – as it presents two stellar evenings of dance at our acclaimed performance space. On Saturday, May 25, Movement Research present Burning Down the House with works by Molly Poerstel-Taylor, Luke George, Stanley Love, and Jillian Peña.

Also, please join us at Roulette on Friday, May 24 for In Our House with post-performance talk with Molly Poerstel-Taylor and Jillian Peña.

About the Movement Research Festival
The Movement Research Festival finds its roots in the Improvisation Festival New York (IFNY), initiated in 1992 by Sondra Loring (an MR artist-in-residence at the time) and Julie Carr. For five years (1999-2003), Movement Research hosted the IFNY as one of its programs, under the curation of Programming Director Amanda Loulaki. Four years ago, Movement Research created an artist-curator format, birthing Improvisation is Hard (2004), followed by Open Source (2005).

Beginning in 2006, Movement Research established the festival as a twice-annual event. The fall festival continues to focus on improvisation and is shaped by Movement Research’s programming staff in collaboration with Curatorial Advisors who bring their own interests and ideas to specific festival events. The spring festival is produced by a group of artist-curators which determines the emphasis, shape, and programming. Together, these two approaches allow for a varied investigation and exploration into current artistic concerns, and reflect Movement Research’s mission of valuing artists, their creative process and vital role within society.

movementresearch.org/performancesevents/festival

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra present the premiere of Peter Gordon’s Symphony #5

The premiere of Symphony #5 by a downtown fixure of adventurous & raucous experiments in new music

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Peter Gordon and the Love of Life Orchestra (LOLO) have been longtime shakers in the downtown experimental music scene. With their unique world music and dance-inspired grooves and penchant for sonic adventures, this dynamic ensemble stands apart from its new music ensembles peers for its ecstatic embrace of bon vivant: an intelligent experimental ensemble that can easily moonlight and entertain the dance halls or rock all night in the dim cathedrals of punk rock. With the gang in town, and with video by Kit Fitzgerald, LOLO presents the premiere of Peter Gordon's latest masterpiece, Symphony #5.

Paul Shapiro, saxes
Katie Porter, clarinets
Peter Zummo, trombone
Max Gordon, trumpet
Elio Villafranca, piano
Ned Sublette, guitar
Randy Gun, guitar
Yunior Terry, bass
Robby Ameen, drums
Peter Gordon, sax, organ, synth

Video by Kit Fitzgerald

Peter Gordon is a composer, saxophonist, arranger, and producer whose music has been noted for its original blend of lyricism, wit and drama, with an underlying funky groove. A seminal figure in Downtown music, Gordon gained attention with his Love of Life Orchestra, which synthesized experimental music with dance music and rock. An early proponent of using the recording studio as a compositional tool, Gordon has released recordings on Lust/Unlust, CBS, Lovely Music, and Newtone Records, most recently the retrospective on DFA Records Love of Life Orchestra, and the upcoming 12” Beachcombing with the UK electro-industrial group Factory Floor, on Optimo. Gordon composes operas and scores for theater and dance, receiving an Obie Award and a Bessie Award, and he has an ongoing collaboration with video artist Kit Fitzgerald. He is music producer for Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, and his orchestrations for Michael Tilson Thomas’ The Thomashefskys were recently performed by the New York Philharmonic.

http://www.petergordon.com

Born roughly in 1979 as a collaborative project between Gordon and David van Tieghem, the Love of Life Orchestra (better known as LOLO), has been described by guitarist Ned Sublette as "with its soap-opera name suggesting an embrace of the trashy, [LOLO]played lean, rigorous, instrumental miniatures whose timbre dispense with the high seriousness that plague new music of the day. Though experimental in outlook, it evokes the fun of early '60s r&b and rock combos like King Curtis's Kingpins or the Ventures, as well as the thumping timbral palette of popular orchestral disco records."

Photo by Paula Court

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith – Tulip

An arresting dance duet by long-running collaborators Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith

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"the definition of a successful duet" –The New York Times

In Tulip two women rely on each other to make work and perform it. Using the abstract realm as the container for the work, they want to be able to do anything with their bodies. Together they create an empowered and isolated performative culture where movement is used as a way to understand feeling.

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been collaborating since 2006. They produced their first show in 2008 at Triskelion Arts. In 2009, their first evening length work, Blanket, was presented at The Tank. In March of 2012 they premiered Beautiful Bone at The Chocolate Factory Theater. An excerpt of Tulip, the pair’s newest work, was commissioned in 2012 through the Judson Now Platform at Danspace Project, and will premiere at Roulette this June. Molly and Eleanor have also been presented by CATCH, Dixon Place, Fridays at Noon at 92Y, LaMaMa, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Mix, and Rooftop Dance.

Photograph by Ian Douglas

Thursday, June 20, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith – Tulip

An arresting dance duet by long-running collaborators Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith

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"the definition of a successful duet" –The New York Times

In Tulip two women rely on each other to make work and perform it. Using the abstract realm as the container for the work, they want to be able to do anything with their bodies. Together they create an empowered and isolated performative culture where movement is used as a way to understand feeling.

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been collaborating since 2006. They produced their first show in 2008 at Triskelion Arts. In 2009, their first evening length work, Blanket, was presented at The Tank. In March of 2012 they premiered Beautiful Bone at The Chocolate Factory Theater. An excerpt of Tulip, the pair’s newest work, was commissioned in 2012 through the Judson Now Platform at Danspace Project, and will premiere at Roulette this June. Molly and Eleanor have also been presented by CATCH, Dixon Place, Fridays at Noon at 92Y, LaMaMa, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Mix, and Rooftop Dance.

Photograph by Ian Douglas

Friday, June 21, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith – Tulip

An arresting dance duet by long-running collaborators Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith

Full Description:

"the definition of a successful duet" –The New York Times

In Tulip two women rely on each other to make work and perform it. Using the abstract realm as the container for the work, they want to be able to do anything with their bodies. Together they create an empowered and isolated performative culture where movement is used as a way to understand feeling.

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been collaborating since 2006. They produced their first show in 2008 at Triskelion Arts. In 2009, their first evening length work, Blanket, was presented at The Tank. In March of 2012 they premiered Beautiful Bone at The Chocolate Factory Theater. An excerpt of Tulip, the pair’s newest work, was commissioned in 2012 through the Judson Now Platform at Danspace Project, and will premiere at Roulette this June. Molly and Eleanor have also been presented by CATCH, Dixon Place, Fridays at Noon at 92Y, LaMaMa, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Mix, and Rooftop Dance.

Photograph by Ian Douglas

Saturday, June 22, 2013 @ 8:00 pm

Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith – Tulip

An arresting dance duet by long-running collaborators Molly Lieber & Eleanor Smith

Full Description:

"the definition of a successful duet" –The New York Times

In Tulip two women rely on each other to make work and perform it. Using the abstract realm as the container for the work, they want to be able to do anything with their bodies. Together they create an empowered and isolated performative culture where movement is used as a way to understand feeling.

Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith have been collaborating since 2006. They produced their first show in 2008 at Triskelion Arts. In 2009, their first evening length work, Blanket, was presented at The Tank. In March of 2012 they premiered Beautiful Bone at The Chocolate Factory Theater. An excerpt of Tulip, the pair’s newest work, was commissioned in 2012 through the Judson Now Platform at Danspace Project, and will premiere at Roulette this June. Molly and Eleanor have also been presented by CATCH, Dixon Place, Fridays at Noon at 92Y, LaMaMa, Movement Research at Judson Church, Performance Mix, and Rooftop Dance.

Photograph by Ian Douglas