body movement tuesday :: gearshifting performance works

Gearshifting Performance Works
Jolene Bailie is the Artistic Director
Gearshifting Performance Works is a not for profit Arts Organization dedicated to the advancement of the art form of modern dance. Committed to promoting modern dance, raising public awareness of the form and enriching the community, the Company has three main activities; these include the advancement of education, creation and presentation of modern dance.
The endeavors to create accessible and artistically daring works. The body of work encompasses a broad range of new creation and respected traditional works.  The subject matter often stems from psychological reactions to environment and reflections upon trends in Canadian lifestyle.  The presentations strive to be rewarding to both the audience and the creators as well as suitable for a broad range of audiences and performance venues.

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body movement tuesday :: butoh

Butoh
The collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and 
motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the 
Ankoku-Butoh movement.  It typically involves playful and grotesque 
imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is 
traditionally performed in white, body makeup with slow, 
hypercontrolled motion, with or without an audience. But there is no 
set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. 
Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi 
Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.

body movement tuesday :: capacitor

Capacitor
Performance. Art. Science.
A San Franciso, California group of interdisciplinary movement artists 
that accumulate energy from our technologically impacted culture and 
release it through.  From the movement of the human diaphragm to 
the story of evolution, from the behavior of electricity to genetic 
manipulation, from the birth of the moon to the cycles of digestion -
natural and synthetic processes form the basis for Capacitor’s study 
of performance. Obsessed with the mechanics of the human body as 
well as machines that propel the body through space, Capacitor 
artists have become masters of rigging systems, coutures of wearable 
sculpture, and engineers of large scale props designed to stretch the 
limits of physical poetry.

body movement tuesday :: the lucent dossier experience

The Lucent Dossier Experience
What Lucent does best is create wonderlands
for their guests to lose themselves in,
so let them be your guide into a fantastical realm
where brilliance and insanity fuse together
in an exotic kind of ecstatic bliss.

body movements tuesday :: performance research

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loopdiver 2009



Atelic


Performance Research
Contemporary Body Movement, Sound Aesthetics, and Other Performance Research
compiled by Robert Alexander