 New Solo by Marissa MosesAn 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 “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 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
"Shakespeare's Inhabitants"
by Marissa Moses was performed at...
High Voltage
at Electric Lodge
June 2, 2017
8:30-10:00pm
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!
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
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
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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
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
Saturday, March 19, 2016 from 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PDT) - Add to Calendar
ABOUT THE JULIET PROJECT - Performed and Created by Marissa Moses
Read more - The Juliet Project Blog
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
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*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.
Marissa Moses takes part in Choreographic ResidencyMarissa Moses will be exploring her new venture, The Juliet Project, during participation as in the Dance Resource Center's Terra Nova: A Home Grown Choreographic Residency. This residency is 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. |  |
About Terra Nova
In this residency Marissa will be working with Rosanna Gamson, a world re-known choreographer and respected teacher. This residency aims to reboot creative processes, through immersion into a rigorous and constructive setting. Finding new strategies to strengthen artistic voice and develop original body-based movement explorations through intensive creative re-examination, risk-taking, and growth. This residency provides a space to receive feedback from expert arts professionals, shared experience in a studio performance, and a conversation with the public, led by key community dance stakeholders.
About The Juliet Project
The Juliet Project begins with the iconic character Juliet and her words. Using Shakespeare’s text as a catalyst to explore the universality of Juliet's emotional journey. Disembodying Romeo to take a look at what Juliet finds within herself throughout the course of the play.
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