Issue #08

Spring 1994

a travel issue

Cover of Issue #08

As artists pass through our tiny office on the way to somewhere, or on their way back from somewhere, we think about TRAVEL: what it means to take a journey, and what issues are implicit in the ways that culture travels. While Movement Research is a "homebase" for many artists, we are also searching for ways in which we can impact dance and performance in the world beyond Avenue A. We want to participate in a dialogue about the current state of the arts, a dialogue that should span the neighborhoods of this city, the regions of this country and continent, and reach across the oceans that surround us. Projects for this year—and future years—include exchange residencies in Nebraska. Mexico, Sweden, Denmark, and Venezuela; participation in the biannual Rencontres Choregraphiques de Bagnolet in France; and an increased distribution of the Performance Journal, so that artists from around the world can share in the discussion of work that is ongoing at Movement Research. We hope you enjoy this issue, and we welcome letters to the editor, and other commentary.

Editorial team

Editor-In-Chief

Cathy Edwards

Design

Guy Yarden

Ad Layout

Audrey Kindred

Articles

4-4

Touring the U.S. On the Cheap

In August 1987, stuck in a one-bedroom East Village apartment with a three-year-old, not having the money to go anywhere, I thought incessantly about traveling. At least somewhere beyond Coney...

7-7

Asian Americans Are Not Exotic!

The cooptation of “multiculturalism” is in full gestation. U.S. mainstream (i.e. white-dominated) performing-arts venues import and present traditional and some contemporary dance troupes, music ensembles, and theater companies from Asia...

8-8

Travel

I travel quite a lot while in my bathtub. Something about the hot water renders membranes more permeable. Things previously walled off from one another migrate and merge, overlappings occur...

8-9

A Letter to Florence Fung

Dear Florence, Many greetings. I sit here today writing and reflecting on my travels and teaching experiences in Hong Kong, Taipei, and most recently Prague, for an interesting journal we...

10-10

traveling tips

in what sense of travel? movement trips, an awkward gait, how do you arrange forward? . . . there was in this contemplation something [playful] which resembled the manifestations of...

16-17

Mexico

August 10, 1993 Santa Clara de Cobre, Michoacán We’re lucky. It’s the season (summer) and the time of day (late afternoon) for amazingly loud claps of thunder, crackling long snakes...

18-18

Dutch Dance on American Soil

Looking for a way to give theater touring a chance to mean more than just an evening’s entertainment, the U.S./Netherlands Touring and Exchange Project 1992-1995 was initiated by the Dutch...

19-19

Windows

This is an improvisation on improvisation. This is a metaphor for improvisation. I am a traveler. I ride in many kinds of vehicles. I go from one place to another....