The Moving Company
With the onset of COVID-19, The Moving Company relaunched as a platform for artists, performers, and healers to create social spaces and temporary communities where people can interact and connect to one another on an immediate human level. In this time, when people are exploring various ways to care for themselves and others, The Moving Company is highlighting artists who create exciting and experimental works around themes like healing, slowness, and emergence. Some of the pieces are humorous, and some are poetic, but all offer a unique perspective on moving from shadow to light.
PAST PERFORMANCES
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PAST PERFORMANCES
HISTORY
SOCIAL PROJECT
Summer Showers at Essex Flowers
After a year away from public gatherings, we are thrilled to bring back Essex Flowers' annual New York Flower Festival. This vanguard live performance series will take place over two weekends in August and feature experiments in light, sound, movement, meditation, performative lectures and more!
Summer Showers is: Andrew Lampert, Annabel Paran, Annie Chen, David B. Smith, ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES, Fan Wu, Ivan Sikic, Jemila MacEwan, Laura Bernstein, Lathan Hardy, Lindsay Packer, Lydia McCarthy, Matt Evans, Samuel Budin, Susannah Simpson, Tamar Ettun, Tanya Marquardt
Hosted by Laura Bernstein and Rebecca Pristoop
Thanks to: Rufus Tureen, Jamie Chan, Tamar Ettun
Intern: Yuli Aloni Primor
*Masks are required for all visitors to the gallery
Saturday August 14th
6p Ivan Sikic - How High?
6:30p Laura Bernstein - Miracle Tapestries
7:30p Lydia McCarthy - That’s Facts Live
Friday August 27th
6p ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES - Jala Mudra Meditation
6:30p Annabel Paran + Fan Wu + Annie Chen - Butoh
7p David B. Smith + Tanya Marquardt - Collective Scream
8p Samuel Budin - The Great Fondini
Saturday August 28th
6p Susannah Simpson - Ophelia
6:30p Tamar Ettun - Lilit the Empathic Demon Summon her Friends
7p Andrew Lampert - A suite of spontaneously composed murder ballads about Archie comics
7:30p Jemila MacEwan + Matt Evans - Mollusk Meditation
8:30p Lindsay Packer + Lathan Hardy - Viewfinder
Summer Showers is: Andrew Lampert, Annabel Paran, Annie Chen, David B. Smith, ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES, Fan Wu, Ivan Sikic, Jemila MacEwan, Laura Bernstein, Lathan Hardy, Lindsay Packer, Lydia McCarthy, Matt Evans, Samuel Budin, Susannah Simpson, Tamar Ettun, Tanya Marquardt
Hosted by Laura Bernstein and Rebecca Pristoop
Thanks to: Rufus Tureen, Jamie Chan, Tamar Ettun
Intern: Yuli Aloni Primor
*Masks are required for all visitors to the gallery
Saturday August 14th
6p Ivan Sikic - How High?
6:30p Laura Bernstein - Miracle Tapestries
7:30p Lydia McCarthy - That’s Facts Live
Friday August 27th
6p ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES - Jala Mudra Meditation
6:30p Annabel Paran + Fan Wu + Annie Chen - Butoh
7p David B. Smith + Tanya Marquardt - Collective Scream
8p Samuel Budin - The Great Fondini
Saturday August 28th
6p Susannah Simpson - Ophelia
6:30p Tamar Ettun - Lilit the Empathic Demon Summon her Friends
7p Andrew Lampert - A suite of spontaneously composed murder ballads about Archie comics
7:30p Jemila MacEwan + Matt Evans - Mollusk Meditation
8:30p Lindsay Packer + Lathan Hardy - Viewfinder
The Moving Company and Friends: Laura Bernstein's Miracle Tapestries
Miracle Tapestries: A Stage for Imagination and Invention in a New Age, is a meditation on our current moment of climate crisis - the wonder, disbelief and inability to fully comprehend the scale and speed of catastrophes.
Conceived and materialized by Laura Bernstein and presented in collaboration with Rebecca Pristoop and The Moving Company and Friends, Miracle Tapestries has become a calendar of symbols, reflecting on the year 2020.
The swathes of hand sewn fabrics adorned with dragons, comets, wildfires, bears and other real and imagined creatures and elemental phenomena, was explored through movement by a group of artists, collaborators, friends and performers as they make a procession through Fort Greene Park. The event took place May 1st, 3-5pm.
Once within Fort Greene Park the tapestries were unfurled creating a container for miracles. The tapestries set the stage for various offerings, poetry readings, movement experiments, games and meditation, lead by collaborators to alleviate the grief and solitude experienced collectively and independently over the past year.
Collaborators included: ESHÉ All Day Hues, Nathan Albright, Georgina Arroyo, Krysta Brayer, Joey De Jesus, Shaun Ellison, Matt Evans, Adam Fitzgerald, Amanda Friedman, Lexy Ho-Tai, Maia Karo, Simone Kearney, Gabriel Kruis, Jemila MacEwan, Annabel Paran, Rachel Rabhan, Emily Reilly, David Sherman, Andrea Solstad, Leah Wishnia
This event is was presented as part of Part of SHOW UP a day of radical joy throughout Brooklyn Parks! Conceived by curator Regine Basha and artist Birgit Rathsmann.
THE MOVING COMPANY AND FRIENDS: PANDEMIC ERA VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING
Vernal Equinox | March 21, 2021
ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES, Nikki Calonge, Eva Davidova, Lindsay Packer, Julian Louis Phillips, Ivan Sikic
The March show focused on the theme emergence and was presented in collaboration with Essex Flowers
Vernal Equinox | March 21, 2021
ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES, Nikki Calonge, Eva Davidova, Lindsay Packer, Julian Louis Phillips, Ivan Sikic
The March show focused on the theme emergence and was presented in collaboration with Essex Flowers
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Poster design: Rebecca Pristoop
Images compilation: Laura Bernstein |
L to R, top to bottom: ESHÉ ALL DAY HUES; Eva Davidova, Global Mode >, 2020; Ivan Sikic; Julian Louis Phillips, image credit: Sean Pressley; Nikki Calonge, image credit: Maria Baranova; Lindsay Packer, performance still from light work. Zoom screenshot. 2020.All images courtesy the artists.
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DEEP WINTER HEALING | 1.24.21
Damali Abrams, Aika Akhmetova, Jana Benitez, Zehra Khan, Le'Andra LeSeur, Lydia McCarthy, Annabel Paran, David B. Smith
The January show focused on the theme healing and was presented by Essex Flowers and Collective_View
Damali Abrams, Aika Akhmetova, Jana Benitez, Zehra Khan, Le'Andra LeSeur, Lydia McCarthy, Annabel Paran, David B. Smith
The January show focused on the theme healing and was presented by Essex Flowers and Collective_View
Poster by Tamar Ettun
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CELEBRATING SLOWNESS | 12.6.20
ruby amanze, Laura Bernstein, Tamar Ettun, Ayana Evans, Tali Hinkis, Sara Jimenez, Maia Karo, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Rebecca Pristoop, Tina Wang
The December show was an informal and experimental celebration of slowness, co-presented by PS122 Gallery and CCollective_View
ruby amanze, Laura Bernstein, Tamar Ettun, Ayana Evans, Tali Hinkis, Sara Jimenez, Maia Karo, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Rebecca Pristoop, Tina Wang
The December show was an informal and experimental celebration of slowness, co-presented by PS122 Gallery and CCollective_View
Poster by Tamar Ettun
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