On Saturday February 7, the participants of New Museum Seminars: (Temporary) Collections of Ideas will host a multipart public program featuring Jmy James Kidd, growing out of the group’s twelve-week long investigation into the Fall 2014 R&D Season’s thematic, CHOREOGRAPHY.

The Seminars operate as a peer-led initiative, gathering approximately fifteen multidisciplinary thinkers together on a weekly basis at the New Museum to investigate seasonal topics developed over multiple platforms (performances, exhibitions, educational programs, etc.) by the Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement. The course of study for the Fall 2014 Season was devoted to CHOREOGRAPHY in all its valences, from inquiries into the current role of dance within the visual arts, to attendant questions of labor, embodiment, economy, pleasure, affect, and modes of exchange. Brought together by mutual, if not always compatible, interests in CHOREOGRAPHY, this Season’s group of participants was made up of artists, scholars, curators, educators, students, dancers, choreographers, activists, and others. This event marks the culmination of the semester by opening up some of its investigations in a wider public forum developed by the Seminar participants.

For the first part of the event, curators, scholars, dancers, and choreographers who think about CHOREOGRAPHY in various ways have been invited to define the term vis-à-vis their own work and experience in short public presentations. They have been encouraged to develop responses that are either direct or elliptical, varying from straightforward position papers to movement-based interpretations. This series of presentations by Shana Keller, Cori Kresge, Thomas J. Lax, Heather Love, Eve Meltzer, and Mariana Valencia will be accompanied by short texts that will be shared among the presenters in advance and published on the Museum’s online publication, Six Degrees, after the event in February.

For the second part of the event, the Seminar participants have invited choreographerJmy James Kidd to perform Gateway, a solo dance piece currently in process. Gatewaytraces Kidd’s dance lineage from her early training in ballet to, most recently, a residency at the Khmer Arts Academy, where the work was first performed in December 2014. InGateway, Kidd explores the possibility of departing from forms instilled by technique through the daily enactment of dance as a spiritual search that is both personal and intersubjective, while investigating the shaping of an individual body over time and the transfer of knowledge from one body to the next. This iteration of Gateway will be developed during a weeklong residency at the New Museum supported by the Seminars and will include a live music composition by Tara Jane ONeil.

After a short break, the day’s proceedings will end in a public discussion between the presenters, the Seminar participants, and the audience.

SCHEDULE:

1–2 PM: Presentations by Cori Kresge, Thomas J. Lax, Heather Love, Eve Meltzer, and Mariana Valencia
2–2:30 PM: Break
2:30–3:30 PM: Jmy James Kidd performs Gateway, with live musical composition by Tara Jane ONeil
3:30–5 PM: Conversation

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