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IDEAS IN MOTION 2007: The Body's Limit
Join dance professionals, engineers, and dance fans from around the US and Europe for Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit. It's a weekend of performances and symposia plus additional performances taking place around the Boston area from April 21 through May 2. Ideas in Motion is a must for anyone who is interested in experimental works that cross new media with dance.
Writing about the 2006 Ideas in Motion, Karen Campbell of the Boston Globe described it as "the most thrilling dance work this reviewer has seen in recent memory ... an eye-popping experience."
Don't miss this year's event! Check out the roster below, and click here for tickets and other information. We hope you'll join us!
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All events are at Green Street Studios (see map here) except Sun 11am performance at SHARE Consulate of Switzerland (see map here)
For direction between Green Street Studios and SHARE see map here
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CONFERENCE OVERVIEW
Ideas in Motion: The Body's Limit, 2007
Conference location: Green Street Studios, 185 Green Street, Cambridge, April 21-22
Click here for tickets and information.
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IiM CONFERENCE - SATURDAY, APRIL 21 |
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Day One, Session One: 2pm
Physical Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and Augmented Bodies
Keynote address by Johannes Birringer
Palinopsia (performance) by Peter Kirn with Pauliina Silvennoinen
Presentation by Barbara M. Bickart
eVokability: The Walking Project (Presentation/documentation) by Sarah Drury
This Just Happens to be Dance and Other Stories on the Road to Communicating William Forsythe’s Choreographic Thinking Through Visual Media (Presentation/documentation) by Norah Zuniga Shaw
Followed by Q & A/Roundtable discussion with artists
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5:30pm: Intermission / Break
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Day One, Session Two, 7:30pm
Evening Performances and Screening
Shake Off (screening) by Hans Beenhakker
Excerpt from MURDER is a habit that REMORSE cannot cure, a DAGGER-in-progress (performance) by Clarinda Mac Low
Excerpts from Out of Wonderland (performance) by Stefanie Nelson Dance Group and Nell Breyer
Terma (performance) by Jamie Jewett/Lostwax
Every Body Tells a Story ( performance) by Antony Rizzi and Inma Rubio Tomas
Followed by Q & A/Roundtable discussion with artists
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IiM CONFERENCE - SUNDAY, APRIL 22 |
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Day Two, Session One: 11am
Boston Cyberarts @ SHARE Consulate of Switzerland (see map here) (420 Broadway Cambridge MA 02138 USA)
LET'S TAKE A SEAT! (performance- conference) by Andrea Haenggi/AMDaT
Followed by Q & A/Roundtable discussion with artists
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Day Two, Session Two: 2pm (at Green Street Studios)
Self Unfinished (1998) (performance) by Xavier Le Roy
Followed by Q & A/Roundtable discussion with artist
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3:30pm: Intermission / Break
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Day Two, Session Three: 4pm
Physical Intelligence: A roundtable discussion on the body’s body of knowledge
Panel Discussion featuring artists and engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderated by Noah Riskin, Head Men's Gymnastics Coach and Physical Intelligence Program Director, MIT
And featuring:
Jonathan Bachrach, Artist and Research Scientist CSAIL, MIT
Tommy DeFrantz, Professor of Dance, MIT
Mia Keinanen, Lecturer of New Dance, Theater Academy in Helsinki, Finland
Martha Mason, Snappy Dance
Joe Paradiso, Associate Professor, MIT Media Lab
Hayes Raffle, Ph.D. candidate, MIT Media Lab, Tangible Media Group
Followed by Q & A and Wrap-up by Johannes Birringer
End of Conference
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PUBLIC ART
 During the conference weekend, Lumen Eclipse, a public motion art gallery in the heart of Harvard Square will present a 48 hour continuous loop of Shake Off and Time Steps by Hans Beenhakker. Daily, dusk-2am
Ideas In Motion is funded in part by a grant from LEF Foundation
Ideas in Motion is one of the premier programs during the opening weekend activities of the 2007 Boston Cyberarts Festival, funded in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council's John & Abigail Adams Arts Program, a special program that funds cultural economic development projects.
Cathy Weis's performances are supported by the Kelly Packowski Multiple Sclerosis Foundation.
Xavier Le Roy is co-hosted in Cambridge by Ideas in Motion and The Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Funded in part by FUSED: French U.S. Exchange in Dance, a program of the National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, in collaboration with FACE (French American Cultural Exchange), with lead funding from Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Florence Gould Foundation, and Mr. George DeSipio. Supported in part by the MIT Council for the Arts, and the MIT Theater Arts Department.
Johannes Birringer's appearance is co-sponsored by the Goethe Institut Boston.
The screening of Shake Off by Hans Beenhakker is co-sponsored by the Consulate General of The Netherlands in New York.
 
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