Tag Archives: dance

Live Dancing Archive at The Kitchen

From February 14 – 23, The Kitchen and iLAND, Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature and Dance, present the New York premiere of dancer and choreographer Jennifer Monson’s Live Dancing Archive, a visceral exploration of the dancing body as physical archive of experience and place. The piece, which marks Monson’s return to The Kitchen after 15 [...]

iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Follow the Water Walks

Follow The Water Walks will host members of the Bronx community (NY, USA) in an interactive walk from the top of the watershed in East Tremont to the Bronx River. During the week of October 15, along the way they will explore water flow, game-play and the body as an instrument for mapping and measurement. [...]

iLand’s 2012 iLAB Resident Update – Higher E.D.

On Sunday September 23 from 11 am – 5 pm, the public can join Higher E+D  (Ecology and Dance) to gather aerial data with kites/balloons and field data through dancing bodies. Meet Lailye Weidman, Jess Einhorn and Liz Barry at Governor’s Island and travel to Lower Manhattan (NY, USA) with Higher E+D for a day of kite-mapping [...]

2012 iLAB Resident – Follow the Water Walks

July 13-15, 2012 Spend time and explore the natural and man-made landscapes that lead from the top of the watershed to the Bronx River. You will play games, dance, draw, write, envision and interact with the communities that call East Tremont home. There will be walking, building, gardening, story-gathering and dancing! The plan is to [...]

Be a gathering! The Natural Circus trainings, Spring 2012

‘I am movement and stillness at the same time’ The Natural Circus trainings are a body and movement practice (and maybe a bit more), embedded in an understanding that ‘nothing lasts, nothing is finished, nothing is perfect’. Situated in a powerful natural environment, they are playful gatherings beyond the human(-centered) perspective that may help realize [...]

2012 iLAND Symposium

New-York, USA, March 23-24, 2012 Wollman Hall at The New School | 65 West 11th Street, 5th Floor Tickets: $5 – $25 (Sliding Scale) The 2012 iLAND Symposium will be entitled: Moving Into the Out There: Indeterminacy and Improvisation in Performance and Environmental Practice. This event is an open forum for exploring new methods of [...]

4X4 Dance Body And The Environment

18th – 29th April 2010 With Guest Artists: Jennifer Monson, Simon Whitehead and Angus Balbernie 4×4 is an eleven-day event on the theme of dance, body and the environment for dance or movement artists, choreographers and artists working in related art-forms. “Somewhere in the midst of ‘sustainability’ lies an inspiring vision of transformation. As movement [...]

Slow Networks – iLAND’s Third Annual Symposium

March 25-26, 2011, hosted by the Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts Slow Networks: Discovering the urban Environment Through Collaborations in Dance and Ecology Slow Networks is an open forum exploring new methods of understanding urban ecosystems through innovative collaborations between practitioners of movement, science, and environmental management. iLAND cultivates a deeper [...]

iLAB Residencies Call for Proposals

iLAND is now accepting applications for the 2011 round of iLAB Residencies. The deadline to apply is March 18, 2011. iLAB is a collaborative residency program between movement based artists and scientists, environmentalists, urban designers/landscape architects, architects and others that integrate creative practice within the different fields/disciplines through an engagement with the ecology of New [...]