Movement Matters: Drop In/Moving Perspectives, documentation (2016)

Drop In/Moving Perspectives, documentation (2016)
Middlebury College Bi Hall
Middlebury, VT
April 12, 2016
Maree ReMalia invites her Pittsburgh-based collaborators to Middlebury College to meld their creative fields spanning dance, sound, visual art, photography, and film to develop movement scores and interactive installations that are inclusive for a wide range of participants to “drop in” and participate in playful, creative ways through interactive events in public locations on campus, while actively engaging questions of resiliency, connectivity, and sustainable well-being.
The Drop In/Moving Perspectives event invited the college and local community to participate in ReMalia and her collaborators facilitation of improvisational explorations with a dance course and then dance in an hour-long open improvisation that was open to public viewing in the Great Hall of Bicentennial Hall (science building). Movers spanning ages 18-80 from fields reaching across arts, arts administration, dance, biology, global health, and more interacted with each other through movement scores written by the artists-in-residence and local community, original sound scores created by David Bernabo from local soundscapes, and installation objects arranged by Blaine Siegel. Occasionally, passersby would join the activity.
The Looking In/Seeing Out performance inhabited an unused greenhouse on campus with a cast that included the artists-in-residence and students, faculty, staff, and members of the local community spanning fields such as architecture, environmental studies, visual art, writing and experience levels ranging from newcomers to dance and seasoned professionals.
Andrew W. Mellon Interdisciplinary Choreographer and Residency Director: Maree ReMalia
Artists-in-Residence: David Bernabo, David Cherry, Blaine Siegel, Jil Stifel
Participants: Katie Martin's Improvisation course and Middlebury College students, faculty, and staff; and members of the local community
Movement Matters Administrator: Shannon Bohler
Movement Matters Research Assistants: Amanda Kimm and Andrew Pester
Art Installations: Blaine Siegel
Sound Design: David Bernabo and Sean Nealon
Videography: David Cherry
Movement Scores: David Bernabo, Maree ReMalia, Blaine Siegel, Jil Stifel, members of the college and local community
This project is sponsored by the Middlebury College Movement Matters Residency, COTA Discretionary Funds, Director of the Arts Gift Fund, and Environmental Council.
Special thank you to Claire Adams, Ann Baker, Carey Bass, Mez Baker-Médard, Shannon Bohler, Colin Boyd, Pieter Broucke, Christal Brown, Taunia Cantin, Chad Conant, Allison Coyne Carroll, Christa Clifford, Michaela Davico, Cathy Ekstrom, Stevon Felton, Dan Frostman, Maria Hatjigeorgiou, Amanda Kimm, Hedya Klein, Stewart Lane, Katie Martin and Introduction to Improvisation Course Participants, Nau Nau Médard, Ethan Murphy, Sean Nealon, Jennifer Ponder, Liza Sacheli, #silentdiscovt, Luther Tenney, Trinh Tran, Diego Thompson, and the Middlebury College Communications Team, Dance Program, and community participants.
Learn more about the scope and focus of Maree’s work during the two-year Movement Matters Residency here: mareeremalia.c...