Ralph Lemon (NY) Living Legacy / March 28 - April 18, 2010 Lemon and his distinguished group of performers mined materials for Wall/Hole, a section of his newest work How Can You Stay In The House All Day And Not Go Anywhere?. Performed by the dancers from Lemon’s 2004 work Come home Charlie Patton – Darrell Jones (FSU alumnus), David Thomson, Djédjé Djédjé Gervais, Gesel Mason and Okwui Okpokwasili as well as dancer Omagbitse Omagbmi -- the work extended their choreographic explorations together through extreme physicality, exhaustion, vulnerability and release. Shinichi Iova-Koga (CA) San Francisco International Arts Festival Partnership / April 18 - May 16, 2010 Iova-Koga and his collaborators met with members of the Tallahassee Buddhist Community to dialogue about modern versus traditional Buddhist teachings and practices as part of the research for the development of The Crazy Cloud Collection, a collaboration with famed Butoh choreographer Ko Murobushi. These dueling perspectives gave him a better sense of what Ikkyu Sojun, the Buddhist monk who is the inspiration for this work, may have battled during his mischievous life.
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Reggie Wilson (NY) November 30 - December 13, 2009 Wilson and Congolese co-choreographer Andréya Ouamba returned to MANCC to refine The Good Dance: Dakar/Brooklyn in preparation for the NY premiere at the BAM Opera House. They spent the time coaching the six dancers of both companies by probing them to ask more questions about the overall sense of the work enabling a deeper investment in the work prior to the full tour.
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Dance Theater Workshop Partnership / October 25 - November 7, 2009 For the first time since conceiving Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image and Algorithm, Koosil-ja and project collaborators mounted and tested all of the technological components as a cohesive unit. Koosil-ja made daily shifts in the dancers and avatars’ choreography due to her ongoing observation of the work and as a result of the feedback from community members after multiple, consecutive viewings.
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MANCC 2009 FORUM Choreographic Research and Development / Advancing the National Dialogue Last August, eighty dance presenters, dance department chairs, residency and retreat center coordinators, funders, representatives from national service organizations and MANCC artist alum from across the country met at MANCC to advance the national dialogue about how we make research and development a more vital cornerstone of what we value and achieve as a field. We came with the same premise -- the understanding that artists need time, space and resources to develop work. We met at FSU in the studios, theater and halls of Montgomery, which were filled with artists in residence developing new work. Our intention through the event and follow up activities was to take stock of what resources we have access to and explore, through individual and collective efforts, how we might help one another build a stronger, more impactful dance ecology. Conversations are ongoing and a multitude of pilot initiatives are now under way by our colleagues including the Alliance for Artist Communities, National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts, National Performance Network, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Through this initiative, we are pleased to announce we have received major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to deepen our relationship with artists by making two-year commitments to a select number of past MANCC artists for the development of new work. We will also be hiring Administrative and Media Fellows through this opportunity to help advance our work. For more information including videos, photographs and audio podcasts from artist residencies and the MANCC FORUM, please visit
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