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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.
ALL PERFORMA STUDIO EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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?
A scored conversation in which choreographer Moriah Evans and performance theorist Rebecca Schneider lean into the vex until a scenario of live thinking unfolds. They engage Evans’s work with bodies and scores and talk about her work in and against the precedent force of received forms, coaxing an unbecoming that simultaneously gestures forth the unthought.
Rebecca Schneider is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University in Providence, RI, USA. She is the author of Performing Remains: Art and War in Times of Theatrical Reenactment (2011) and The Explicit Body in Performance (1997) among other books. She has published over 50 essays including the award-winning “That the Past May Yet Have Another Future: Gesture in the Times of Hands Up” (2018); “Slough Media” in Remain (2019); and "This Shoal Which is Not One" in Island Studies Journal (2020). A book, Standing Still Moving, is in development supported by a Mellon grant for the Digital Humanities at Brown University. Schneider was a 2021 Guggenheim Fellow for her ongoing project, “Shoaling in the Sea of History.”