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Performa Studio is conceived as a public, process-based program, placing emphasis on the creative research, experimentation, and learning, that occurs during the artistic process within a studio environment, to consider what it means to think with both mind and body.
Artists and choreographers Moriah Evans and Isabel Lewis have devised a program of open rehearsals, classes, participatory group work, and talks, uniting choreography, movement, somatic practices, sound, music, and discussion in a specially designed space by architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro—housing an exploratory program that fosters collaboration with both participants and audiences, creating a community space for events of all kinds.
Each artist’s program considers what dance and movement can mean as a social, collaborative, political act, to consider the formation of individual movement and collective movement. Throughout the Performa Studio program, Evans and Lewis will address a series of fundamental questions: What does it mean to move as an individual and what does it mean to move as a group? What is the relationship between individual and collective consciousness? What differentiates vigorous collective movements from chaos? And what roles can structured choreographic movement, and seemingly chaotic, unstructured movement, play in creating societal change?
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Berlin and Vienna based artist and choreographer Isabel Lewis designs participatory situations to explore our relationships with one another, particularly how we are socialized to behave as groups. For Doppelgänger Workshop, Lewis has invited artistic collaborators Niall Jones, nora chipaumire, Marguerite Hemmings, Kris Lee, Majesty Royale-Jackson, and Ishmael Houston-Jones to participate in a collective compositional process, to explore the dynamics of group behavior using movement and sound, based on a series of scores she has devised.
Inspired by Hélène Landemore’s Open Democracy: Reinventing Popular Rule for the Twenty-First Century and Naomi Klein’s polemic book Doppelgänger, Lewis’s Doppelgänger Workshop will explore the uncanny mirroring that occurs in social and political life, to consider moments in which oppositional views intersect and mimic one another. Lewis is interested in considering how seemingly dichotomous political positions—for example, the concepts of “right” and “left”, “conservative” and “liberal” that historically have dominated culture—have lost their contemporary anchor points.
The workshop is open to audience participation: everyone with an interest and willingness to move and think through ideas in space is welcome. The primary focus is on moving, doing, and creating together. The participants of Doppelgänger Workshop will co-create, dance, and make sound as a means of examining the conditions—the shifting social and political landscapes—under which we encounter one another.
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Curated by Kathy Noble, Senior Curator, and Defne Ayas, Senior Curator-at-Large, Performa, and Director, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, with Josefina Barcia, Hartwig Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow. Produced by Nora Chellew, Associate Producer.
Supported by Ford Foundation and the Performa Commissioning Fund.
