The Moving Memory project: SENSE MEMORY
a festival devoted to memory and forgetting
SENSE MEMORY
Friday, February 10, 2023, 7:30 pm
Broadway Presbyterian Church
601 W 114th St, New York, NY 10025
Opening remarks by Meredith Wong, director of Caring Kind’s Connect2Culture® program
Dance performances
Bunker + Vault (excerpt), Rebecca Margolick
Choir, Kayla Farrish/Decent Structures Arts
Paradox in Translation (excerpt), Mignolo Dance
Live Music by Erez Kreitner & Davison Paull
Post-show discussion and reception
Light design: Lauren Parish
FREE Admission/Donation
Launched in 2019, The Moving Memory Project embodies its founders’ vision of bringing together artists, caregivers, and seniors to create a community of care surrounding issues connected to memory loss and destigmatizing the diagnosis of dementia, with the ultimate goal of raising awareness to increase funding until a cure is found. “Works like this can help the world think and talk about Alzheimer's in important new ways,” says co-producer David Shenk whose writings on Alzheimer's and dementia garnered him international acclaim as an authority on the subject.
The Moving Memory Project is made possible in part with funding from the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC); in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council; and the West Harlem Development Corporation.
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Rebecca Margolick, Solo
Bunker + Vault
(25 min of 37 min piece)
Bunker + Vault is about how memory is experienced through the body and generations. This solo was influenced by archival research on the women who resided at the 92nd Y Residence and The Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls from 1899-1950. Rebecca’s practice grew from this research, embodying and visualizing memories of these women, as well as her own, approaching time in a non-linear fashion, reflecting the parallels, struggles and shared history through generations of working-class women. This relentless solo plays with rigor and rhythm as a grounding force in a chaotic mind.
Bunker + Vault won the Jury Prize for “best indoor choreographic work” at the 2019 Festival Quartiers Danses in Montreal Canada. The full-length version has been presented in Montreal, Canada (Festival Quartiers Danses, 2019 & 2022), Nashville TN (Kindling Arts Festival 2022), Vancouver B.C. (Dancing On The Edge Festival 2022), San José, Costa Rica (Grafica Genesis 2022, and Solos Hecho a Mano 2021).
Acknowledgments: Conney Conference 2019 and Bernard Schwartz at the 92nd Y Archives
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Excerpts from Paradox in Translation
Mignolo Dance
Choreography: Charly Santagado
Text - Matthew Menchaca and Charly Santagado
Music - Emory Campbell, Steve Reich (Alex Smoke Remix)
Dancers - Charly Santagado & Eriel Santagado
Paradox in Translation embodies two poems, creating a vocabulary that maps to the spoken/sung text, complemented by increasingly disjointed translations which culminate in a dreamscape that explores contradictions inherent in memory, love, and loss.
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Choir
Choreography, Performance, and Music Mixing: Kayla Farrish
Originally commissioned for Carrie Mae Weems Exhibit "The Shape of Things" for the - "The Land of Broken Dreams" Convening" (December 2021)
-Curated by Kenyon Adams for a Performance in Drill Hall
Music Credits: Walter Hawkins, Julius Eastman, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Kendrick Lamar, Big Joe Turner, Ella Fitzgerald, SHXCXCHCXSH, Aaron Dilloway and Lucrecia Dalt, Nina Simone, Sam Cooke, 7038634357
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Kayla Farrish (Choreographer/Performer) is an award-winning choreographer, performer, filmmaker, and photographer, producing multidisciplinary work with her ensemble Decent Structures Arts, an emerging company combining filmmaking, storytelling, dance theater performance, and sound score. The company has been commissioned by such venues as Joe’s Pub, Gibney, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Danspace Project, Pepatian, Triskelion Arts, and BAAD!, among others. Projects produced with Decent Structures Arts include films Black Bodies Sonata, The New Frontier (my dear America), With grit From, Grace, and the 2022 hybrid work Martyr's Fiction that continues to push boundaries of form, voice, scene, and narrative in an array of cinematic mediums. In recent years, Farrish engaged in a number of high-profile collaborations, including performing in the Bessie Award-winning production of The Motherboard Suites, directed by Bill T. Jones, and sharing her work with Kyle Abraham/AIM Reunion Concert at the Lincoln Center, and choreographing for the critically acclaimed project Little Amal, directed by Tea Alagic. Her numerous freelance projects include works with such dancemakers as In addition, Farrish has freelanced with companies including Sleep No More NYC, Marjani Forte/7NMS, Kate Weare Company, Helen Simoneau Danse, Company SBB, Dendy/Donovan Projects, Arthur Aviles, Rashaun Mitchell/Silas Reiner, Nicole Von Arx, Danielle Russo, and many others. She has taught and rehearsal directed at Juilliard, University of the Arts, NYU, Marymount College, University of NC School of the Arts, Alonzo King Lines Training Program, New Dialect, and others. www.kaylafarrish.com
Rebecca Margolick (Choreographer/Performer) is a Canadian-born choreographer and dancer based in New York. Her multidisciplinary group and solo works have been presented across the US and Canada as well as internationally in Costa Rica, France, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Mexico, and Israel. She was named one of Dance Magazine’s Top 25 to Watch in 2021, and has received multiple awards for her solo work. Rebecca has received numerous fellowships (including the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation’s New Directions Choreography Lab under the mentorship of Gus Solomons Jr) and awarded many residencies from leading art centers such as the Banff Centre for the Arts, BC Movement Arts Society, Dance Deck Vancouver, La Galerie Chorégraphique (France), and the GPS Fund Movement Research Artist in Residence at Derida Dance Center (Bulgaria). Rebecca is currently a company member and a rehearsal director of Chuck Wilt’s UNA Productions. She has worked with dancemakers Sidra Bell, Belinda McGuire, Jerome Bel, Kayla Farrish, Allen Kaeja, Patricia Norowol, Maya Orchin, Derrick Belcham, Emily Terndrup, Shay Kuebler, and Barak Marshall. Rebecca trained at Arts Umbrella in Vancouver and graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. www.rebeccamargolick.com
Charly Santagado (Choreographer/Performer) is a dancer, choreographer, writer, and curator as well as co-founder and artistic director of Mignolo Dance. Originally from Florida and based in the NJ/NY area, she graduated with the highest honors from Rutgers University in 2017 with a major in philosophy and minors in dance, music, and creative writing. Charly has danced with several companies and choreographers including Heidi Latsky Dance, VALLETO Dance, ReFrame Dance Theatre, Katelyn Halpern and Dancers, Yu.S. Artistry, and Monteleone Dance Collective. She also regularly performs in her own work, which has been presented at numerous venues, including Ailey Citigroup Theater, Peridance, Triskelion Arts, Suzanne Roberts Theater, and The Berrie Center. In recent years, she’s been selected for coLAB Arts’ new choreography commission, Dance Canvas’s Choreographic Initiative, an Urbanity Dance NEXT Residency, Norte Maar’s CounterPointe9, One Day Dance’s third season, and a Kulturfactory Residency in Domicella, Italy. She has won screendance awards at several international film festivals, as well as Ramapo College’s Leaning into the Unknown Competition, Spoke The Hub’s Winter Follies (Director’s Choice), Palm Springs International Dance Festival’s film competition, KoDaFe in NYC, and International Online Dance Competition’s Choreography Division. www.charlysantagado.com
photo credits: Vanessa Fortin, Sarah Annie Navarrete, Contigo Photos & Films, Ty Lyons Graynor Photography
