Some video of Movementpants performing 3D -) MANIFEST at Zinc Bar at a poetry reading hosted by Rebecca's friend Dotty. It was interesting to share a stage with poets for an audience of...poets. Their sensitivity to imagery makes them wonderfully receptive participants. For anyone who is interested, I highly recommend dancing for poets.
It's been a long time
We shouldn't have left you, without some dope beats we step to. I don't know about you, but I am in full and total support of this Balkan beat movement, epitomized by the music of Zach Condon and his band Beirut. Here is a clip from the latest version (2.0) of La Spectra where Movementpants simultaneously embraces his music and ourselves as fools. And if the below is not enough, here's pt.II, III, and IV.
Nasty Nas in her area
Welcome to the latest edition of Movementpants' spotlight on talent! Nasim is a Movementpants collaborator. She is half Iranian and half Polish and plays the guitar. She also, until recently, had a wonderfully mysterious apartment in Crown Heights. It was the type of place where one could get lost in spacetime and yet feel completely at home in two places at the same time. Also, she had wonderful furniture, including some fabulous antique Persian rugs, that she displayed without any shame whatsoever. Here is a video that seeks to simultaneously capture the captivating disorientation of Nasim's former apartment and her shameless enjoyment of it's manipulation. Bon Apetit!
SO Lucky
Movementpants has been performing on fairly consistent basis these days. However, with fans all over the world, and the nature of live performance being such that unless you are there the moment it is happening, you can't see it, many of our fans have been unable to see our performances. Many other live performance companies and artists have the same problem, so they document, or live-stream it or come up with other ways to engage their audience (as I've mentioned in a previous post...remember, only 80% of what you read here is bullsh*t). These efforts, while mildly engaging, never really seem to capture the feeling of actually BEING there, experiencing the event live, watching us respond to music in real time. You know, dance. That dance performance thing. Well, it turns out we, Movementpants, and our fans, are extremely lucky, because we have Anne. Anne is extremely talented. One of her talents is cinematography. Another is live Foley effects. Check out some of her work below, and feel what it's like to be....IN Movementpants! Oh, and don't worry if you don't get it...you kind of had to be there.
WILM 690
Coming this summer to the Brick Theater's "Antidepressant Festival", WILM 690, Pirate Radio.
Music by Chris Becker off his cd "Saints and Devils".
Music by Chris Becker off his cd "Saints and Devils".
Upcoming...get involved
Movementpants will be performing "La Spectra" at the the Tank on April 23rd and 24th at 9:30 pm. We've been working on this piece for over a year, experimenting, researching, playing and performing, and are very excited to be able to finally premiere it in NY this spring. But, we're not there yet. Indeed, we are still working days and nights. If you don't know, the new thing with dance companies is for them to post video of their rehearsals. Well, we are, according to ourselves, a dance company, and who are we go against the flock. So here's some of our last rehearsal where we hyped up what used to be a duet and made it a trio.
Another new thing with dance comapnies is to engage their audience in new ways. Why? Since they are a part of theater,and theater is dead (that's what they say anyway...if you don't believe me go check out "Really Bad Plays: 1 night, 8 awful plays" at New York Theater Workshop this Thursday night (3/5/09)), everybody is scrambling to keep they're loyal audiences engaged in between performances. Hence, blogs...rehearsal footage...remixing dances...and this. So, for our upcoming show, we are taking suggestions for songs for warm up numbers. You know, dance numbers to get your audience juices flowing. Just e-mail us your suggestion, or include it in a comment on this post. All entries received by March 21st will be entered into a lottery drawing and the first song chosen will have a dance made for our show in late April. There's only one criteria for your entry. It must be 3-5 minutes in length. And it must be a song...no soundscapes of you going to the bathroom like we received last time. So holler at us!!
Another new thing with dance comapnies is to engage their audience in new ways. Why? Since they are a part of theater,and theater is dead (that's what they say anyway...if you don't believe me go check out "Really Bad Plays: 1 night, 8 awful plays" at New York Theater Workshop this Thursday night (3/5/09)), everybody is scrambling to keep they're loyal audiences engaged in between performances. Hence, blogs...rehearsal footage...remixing dances...and this. So, for our upcoming show, we are taking suggestions for songs for warm up numbers. You know, dance numbers to get your audience juices flowing. Just e-mail us your suggestion, or include it in a comment on this post. All entries received by March 21st will be entered into a lottery drawing and the first song chosen will have a dance made for our show in late April. There's only one criteria for your entry. It must be 3-5 minutes in length. And it must be a song...no soundscapes of you going to the bathroom like we received last time. So holler at us!!
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