Marissa Harumi Moses - Goings On.

Marissa Harumi Moses

Intuitive Arts Circle on PATREON - Coming Soon!

4/10/2021

Join me within my new cozy virtual space designed to serve as a community of sensitive recovering performing artists, and persons who align with the core values of creative craft and intuitive experiences.

This is a space where I will share some of my own personal practice and insights into healing from performance abuse and the complex trauma from living and working with part(s) of myself suppressed, oppressed, or cut off completely from my experience to show up 'acceptably'.

If you are done playing the part of who other people want you to be, and you feel yourself needing a self-paced way to access now and ancestral resources to connect deeper with yourself then I want to welcome you with an open heart into my safe space for recovery and restoration. This virtual community is a place where to connect, attune, and practice integrating your full self and inner wisdom without feeling the pressures of the outside world.

My intention is to cultivate an inclusive practice for easy living and fulfilling creative care. Intentionally guiding a sense of secure self-attachment rooted in trustworthiness and reliable regulating resources.

Home Grown @ Mimoda: featuring new solo work by Marissa Moses

4/23/2018

New Solo by Marissa Moses

An improvisational embodiment of the stages of grief. Moses dives into the aftermath of trauma using inspiration from Butoh, a form of Japanese dance theater that arose post WWII.
Finding beauty and transcendence through the grotesque, dark, and twisted.

“When one considers the body in relation to dance, it is then that one truly realizes what suffering is: it is a part of our lives. No matter how much we search for it from the outside there is no way we can find it without delving into ourselves.”– Tatsumi Hijikata

You're Invited to Home Grown @ MiModa on April 28th!
After a 5-week choreographic residency intensive with Rosanna Gamson/ World Wide, Dance Resource Center invites you to experience new, original works by a small but mighty group of LA based choreographers!

LOCATION:
MiModa Studio (Entrance through Paper or Plastik Café)
5774 W Pico Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90019

WHEN:
Saturday, April 28, 2018
7-9pm

Join us for a hearty evening or performance + conversation.
Guest speakers include Ben Johnson, Performing Arts Division Director, Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles and Rosanna Gamson, Artistic Director of Rosanna Gamson/World Wide.

This event would not be possible without the partnership between Dance Resource Center, Rosanna Gamson/World Wide, and MiModa Studio; as well as support from the Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles and Los Angeles Arts Commission.

Residency Artists Include
Mallory Fabian
Vannia Ibarguen
Adam Kerbel
Marissa Moses
Andrew Pearson
Cody Potter

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“Even your own arms, deep inside your body feel foriegn to you, feel that they do not belong to you. Here lies an important secret. Butoh’s radical essence is hidden here.”– Tatsumi Hijikata

*Photos by: MG Tasker

“Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet”– Tatsumi Hijikata

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Marissa's November Performances

11/10/2017

Marissa's Upcoming
Performance Dates

Dance/BACK - THIS Sunday
November 12, 6pm
An experiment on chance and disparity,
Choreographed by Andrew Pearson
Donations support Doctors Without Boarders.
Your donation is your ticket.
CLICK HERE

LA Road Concerts - THIS Saturday
November 11, 3:30-4pm
Los Angeles Road Concerts presents site-specific projects from Los Angeles artists in unused public outdoor spaces. This installment will take place in Culver City near the intersection of National and Washington and I will be performing in a short improvisational movement for four dancers directed by Andrew Pearson on the corners of this intersection.
For map and details on the full programming
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Macbeth x 5 @ The Odyssey Theatre: Movement Director, Marissa Moses

10/5/2017

ABOUT MACBETH x 5
Macbeth x 5 is a modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s politically-charged masterpiece about ambition, retribution, and fate. Told in one 80-minute act by five actors playing multiple roles, “Macbeth x 5” tells the story using a seamless interchange of spoken word and physical movement.

OCTOBER 21 - NOVEMBER 19,2017
Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 2pm

Tickets: $18-$36
Buy Tickets online
Box office: 310-477-2055

A Visiting production at The Odyssey Theatre
2055 S. Sepulveda Blvd. LA, CA 90025

Visit macbethx5 website

The Joel Asher Studio in association with PlayMakersLA present “Macbeth x 5,” a modern reconstruction of Shakespeare’s politically-charged masterpiece about ambition, retribution, and fate. Told in one 90-minute act by five actors playing multiple roles, “Macbeth by 5” tells the story using a seamless interchange of spoken word and physical movement. “Macbeth x 5” is adapted and directed by Joel Asher (LA Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Twelfth Night, Merry Wives), with movement by Marissa Moses (Getty Villa and Broad Stage with Helios Dance Theater). “Macbeth x 5 is a visiting production at West LA’s Odyssey Theatre, opening October 21, 2017.

In Macbeth x 5, ambitious General Macbeth, fresh off a military victory, is confronted by three witches who foretell his rise to power. Together with his wife, Macbeth murders his way to the throne - only to descend into insecurity, paranoia and tyranny.

Macbeth x 5 is a 90-minute scaled-down reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, using an intersection of language and movement to illuminate the story.

Says Joel Asher: “Macbeth is a political play, from the original production which catered to King James’ fascination with witches - down through 400 years of ambition and retribution. We have found a physical language that illuminates the subtext and makes it modern. While this production will not imitate current political figures, audiences will find it relevant to the world we’re in now. “

Image and Movement by Marissa Moses. Pictured: Alex Wright, Nate Ruleaux, Rosie Moss

Award-Winning Design Team:
Scenic design for Macbeth x 5 is by John Iocavelli (Emmy Award for Peter Pan w/Cathy Rigby, Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Career Achievement); lighting design is by Bosco Flanagan (2016 Stage Raw award for Odyssey Theatre / New American Theatre’s Tempest Redux); sound design is by Christopher Moscatiello (composer for AMC’s The Walking Dead, 2015 Stage Raw Award for Sound Design for Rogue Machine’s Penelope) and costume design is by Denise Blasor (2016 Stage Raw Award nomination for Odyssey Theatre / New American Theatre’s Tempest Redux).

Cast:
Stephen Tyler Howell (RII at Boston Court, Disinherit the Wind, Hot 'N' Throbbing with Illyrian Players, Angel: A Nightmare at Crown City Theater) is Macbeth and Alexandra Wright (Rosalind in As You Like It at American Repertory Theater at Harvard, Lady Percy at Shakespeare OC,) is Lady Macbeth. Rounding out the ensemble playing over 20 characters are Chase Cargill (Son of Semele Ensemble’s If You Can Get to Buffalo) Rosie Moss (Lifetime/A&E's miniseries The Rookie, FUGU at West Coast Jewish Theatre) and Nate Ruleaux (The Tempest, Henry IV Part 1 at Shakespeare Orange County).

Director Joel Asher's connection to Shakespeare goes back to the 60s when he acted in Twelfth Night starring Faye Dunaway and As You Like It starring Jane Alexander. He went on to found the New Hampshire Shakespeare Festival and later became Producing Director of the Los Angeles Shakespeare Company directing productions of Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV, Othello and Twelfth Night. As a film actor, he has been in Bard Productions' Merry Wives of Windsor and Othello. Beside Shakespeare, Joel has been a director in Los Angeles for over thirty years, recently at 2Cents' ActOut Festivals directing two originals and at The Fountain Theatre directing The Lady's Not for Burning. Joel has also produced documentaries including his 4-part Actors at Work instructional DVDs and a series of Period Movement for Actors plus a series on Great Acting Teachers and Their Methods. Joel also teaches Acting for Film and Television at his Studio.

Marissa Moses teaches Voice & Movement at The Huntington Library's Summer Shakespeare Institute

7/13/2017

Marissa Moses recently taught Voice and Movement at this Summer's Shakespeare at the Huntington: Alumni Workshop.
Workshop Directed/Curated by Louis Fantasia.

The one-week workshop focus on the problems inherent in staging Shakespeare’s plays, including blocking, scene and character analysis, and verse. The course also includes best practices in curriculum development resulting from previous Huntington summer Shakespeare institutes, as well as work in voice, movement and relaxation techniques. Prerequisite: successful completion of "Shakespeare at the Huntington" summer institute.

Education Center at the Huntington Library

Marissa Moses performs solo work at Electric Lodge

7/13/2017

"Shakespeare's Inhabitants"
by Marissa Moses was performed at...

High Voltage
at Electric Lodge

June 2, 2017
8:30-10:00pm

Marissa Moses' latest solo work "Shakespeare's Inhabitants" (working title) is an improvised mash-up of texts from 3 of Shakespeare's iconic female characters: Joan la Pucelle (Joan of Arc), Juliet, and Lady Macbeth - you never know what you're gonna get!

New Talent Manager for Marissa Moses - Monroe Talent Management

3/10/2017

Marissa Moses is excited to be joining Monroe Talent Management - Spring 2017

Performance by Marissa Moses @ Lula Washington's Day of Dance Festival

3/9/2017

PC: Jim Senti

Finding Juliet
Created & Performed by Marissa Moses
Live Sound by Salas Artworks

Saturday October 15, 2016 @ 4:30pm
3773 Crenshaw Blvd Los Angeles, CA

For this showing, Marissa Moses collaborated with sound artist, Ray Salas of Salas Artworks. Using excerpts from one of Juliet's monologues from Shakespeare's R&J, and Maya Angelou's poem In All Ways A Woman, Salas and Moses use improvisation to weave these two iconic female voices into a conversation around the feminist struggle and the current discomfort of the moment.

Performance Footage
Rehearsal Footage

Rehearsals were made possible through the support of Carol Katz of Paloma Street Studio.
This performance was presented as a part of
Dance Resource Center's Home Grown @ Dance All Day festival,
presented by Lula Washington Dance Theatre
during
Taste of Soul Family Festival 2016

If you'd like to support Marissa Moses' work, you can pick from a whole bunch of ways! Become a donor and contribute any amount of funding to help make her vision a reality by following the link below. Send a message of encouragement, come to a show, read some of the blog posts on this website and share how they make you feel/think, or something entirely unique that you might dream up! Hope to hear from you soon - xoxo

Featured by Rosanna Gamson/World Wide

7/31/2016

Marissa Moses' experience in the Terra Nova Residency highlighted on Rosanna Gamson/World Wide's website. Read more...

PC: Mara Tasker

"Working with Rosanna Gamson during the Terra Nova Choreographic Residency was just the artistic kick in the pants that I needed! For two years I have been journaling, considering, and envisioning a solo project inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet. This project has been stuck inside of me wanting but not willing to come out in physical form." -Marissa Moses

Link to Featured Page on RGWW's site

Marissa Moses showing work-in-progress @ Mimoda (The Juliet Project)

3/9/2016

UPCOMING: MARCH 19TH, 2016 - Performance Showing of Marissa Moses' "The Juliet Project"

DRC's Homegrown @
Mimoda: Choreography + Conversation

Featuring work performed and created by Marissa Moses

WHEN
Saturday, March 19, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT) - Add to Calendar

WHERE
5772 W Pico Blvd - 5772 West Pico Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90019 - View Map

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ABOUT THE JULIET PROJECT - Performed and Created by Marissa Moses
Read more - The Juliet Project Blog

The Juliet Project is an improvisational exploration of the space between acting and dance. Marissa dives into her own self-identity using the veil of the iconic character, William Shakespeare's Juliet. The evolving look, feel, and shape of this project are being explored with an openness to discovery. This showing is a serving as a bridge to begin a wider sharing process for Marissa's creative practice and work.

Marissa would like to express how grateful she is to have had the opportunity to share in such a safe creative space. With her fellow residency choreographers and through the guidance and support of Rosanna Gamson Marissa has found a herself flooded with a fulfilling and rich sense of community.

WORDS FROM MARISSA - About the Juliet Project

I am trying to hook into something bigger than myself, while I am myself, through the archetype of Juliet.
Romeo and Juliet both live within me - I am using the voice and agency of Juliet to get my inner Romeo to be direct, concrete, and truthful.
Though I anticipate it diving into many iterations of The Juliet Project throughout the course of my life, both for film and live performance, for this upcoming showing I aim to continue leaning into the space where acting and dance are one for me as a performer.

See you soon! - Purchase Tickets Here

*The Terra Nova Residency and DRC's Homegrown @ Mimoda: Choreography + Conversation have been made possible with the support and generosity of MiModa Studio, Yasha J. Michelson, Theater Jazzo, the Department of Cultural Affairs, and Rosanna Gamson/World Wide.