iLand:
SIP/Watershed

jennifer monson
october 1, 2010

SIP/Watershed Event
8:30 and 9:30am
59th Street and 12th Avenue
New York
Participation free but reservations required
Event length: about 60 minutes

Note: iLand has become a partner of EMF. In exploring movement to define space and foster engagement with an environment, their SIP/watershed event is in such consonance with the thoughts behind the Ear to the Earth festival that we include it as part of the festival and look forward to closer collaborations. The following words are extracted from various emails and fliers written by Jennifer Monson. The photos are by Joel Chadabe.

I am writing to invite you to a public event for my latest work, SIP(Sustained Immersive Process)/watershed, coming up October 1-3 and 7-10. This is the first phase of a year- long project and we are experimenting with inviting the audience into elements of our process. The performances are scheduled for the beginning and end of the day and are located at sites along the waterfront that foreground the interactions between the built and natural functions of our regional watershed. The audience at each event is limited to 8 people.

We hope to generate a lively conversation about the ability of dance to communicate an experience of the intricate relationships within the watershed system. This information will inform the on-going development of our process and public events.

 

iLAND (interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance) presents SIP/watershed, an investigation into the NYC Regional watershed viewed as a meta-choreography of the historical, geological, and cultural layers of the interaction of built and natural phenomena of water in the region.

Choreographer and iLAND artistic director Jennifer Monson, sound artist, Chris Cogburn, costume designer Katrin Schnabl, architect Kate Cahill, and choreographer/dancer Maggie Bennett, will create a process that interweaves their forms through listening, observing, moving in and with water along the edges of NYC’s shoreline.

Each event builds a system of listening, observing and moving that creates a porous and fluid experience reflecting the dynamics of the watershed. The intimacy of the performance is designed to sustain an immersive experience for both the public and the artists within the sound and movement environments created within each performance location. 

The final presentation of SIP/watershed is scheduled for July 2011. This will include panels, workshops and performances inspired by the watershed.

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