Photo by Sydney Allen
Excited to share the new release from the 2023 Move Move Collaborative cohort -
Love Alien live @ 2640 Space
Bandcamp Friday is February 2nd - buy then and support Move Move!
Grateful for the experience at 2640 Space
It is already July, wow, I have been transported by a series of beautiful events. Thank you to everyone who came out and supported this year’s Move Move Collaborative gathering. It could not happen without you!
photo by Sydney Allen
From left to right - Lucifer, Ariel Foster, Peter Redgrave, Talbolt Johnson, Majid Araim, Emmett Wilson, Ashley Shey, Oreolúwa Akinsanmi, and Jake Freeman.
It has been a nourishing and robust experience so far this year. This year’s cohort is Oreolúwa Akinsanmi, Majid Araim, Ariel C. Foster, Jake Freeman, Talbolt Johnson, Lucifer, Peter Redgrave, Ashley Shey, Ọmọlará Williams-McAllister, and Emmett Wilson. It was invigorating to be back in Baltimore and moving with so many dynamic and visionary thinkers. We worked in a new space - Michele Blu’s Yoga Studio. We hosted some public facing workshops. We created a score together in six days, performed it on the seventh, and chilled on the eighth.
Photo by Sydney Allen
Lucifer, Talbolt and Emmett in performance.
This year we slowed down and dug in. Shey reflected back a nugget that I am going to think with for a minute - “At Move Move, the rigor is in the communication.” That is true. It is a different kind of training, a different listening. It brings a different set of rewards.
Photo by Sydney Allen
Ashley Shey plays while Talbolt, Emmett, Ariel, and Majid move.
Photo by Sydney Allen
Ashley Shey and Emmett Wilson in duet.
Photo by Sydney Allen
Ariel Foster, Oreolúwa Akinsanmi and Lucifer in performance.
Photographer Sydney Allen joined us for the performance. Check her work on IG - @_abaltimoregriot_ . Majid set up a video camera and I set up a recorder. There will be more documentation to follow. The sound recording will get a spotlight of its own. It was a transporting evening in large part to the incredible listening of Michele Blu, Che Davis, Orlando Johnson, and Bonnie Lander as they were joined by Ariel Foster, Jake Freeman, and Majid Araim. Stay tuned - it is really something to listen to!
Ariel Foster, Che Davis, Bonnie Lander, Michele Blu, and Orlando Johnson listening and playing together.
Looking forward to all that the future holds for this project.
More soon
<3
Peter Redgrave
¡Join us on June 26th!
The 2023 gathering
Hello everyone
There is an incredible group of people making there way towards Baltimore to begin crafting a score for performance. The people this year will be coming and going - so not everyone will be at the performance or at all the workshops. Here is this year’s cohort:
Oreolúwa Akinsanmi, Majid Araim (ATL), Lucifer (ATL), Ariel Foster, Jake Freeman, Talbolt Johnson, JAM, Peter Redgrave, Ashley Shey (MA), Matt Williams, Ọmọlará Williams McCallister & Emmett Wilson (PA)
They will be developing the score - we have invited Michelle Blu, Che Davis, Orlando Johnson, and Bonnie Lander to be musical guests. The performance is going to be an incredible experience. Please join us.
Please be prepared to wear a mask and make a donation.
To reserve space in the workshops or tickets for the 26th - please email
WORKSHOPS
2:30 - 5:00 PM on Tuesday, June 20th
Ọmọlará Williams McAllister will facilitate an Introduction to Capoeira.
at Michele Blu's Yoga studio 526 Oldham St, Baltimore, MD 21224
This intro class will expose participants to the basic movement vocabulary of capoeira. Capoeira is an AfroBrasilian cultural system that includes rhythmic martial movements, music, sung oral histories, and a variety of other cultural practices. Capoeira is unique in that it does not have age, weight, gender, ability, or other classes of any kind. Everyone is welcome to come train and play with everyone else!
7:00 - 9:00 PM on Wednesday, June 21st
Luciana Lucifer Arias will facilitate a Butoh and Improvisation class
at Michele Blu's Yoga studio 526 Oldham St, Baltimore, MD 21224
This class will share how to use tools from Butoh - the dance of darkness - in improvisational performance. Lucifer will facilitate an experience that offers music and movement. No experience necessary.
Please join us for this unique opportunity to take class with Lucifer, an Atlanta based performer.
2:30 - 5:00 PM on Thursday, June 22nd
Emmett Wilson will facilitate a workshop called Body Drama:
at Michele Blu's Yoga studio 526 Oldham St, Baltimore, MD 21224
Calling your inner diva to revel in BODY DRAMA: a class compiled of contemporary/lyrical/jazz dance class exercises that have informed Emmett’s ideas of love and its expression. Imagine you are center-stage, but the stage is a petri-dish, and you are looking at yourself through the microscope, but it’s no big deal- it’s just a play (on words, with yourself and others doing the same, only if y’all want to). This class is choose-your-own adventure, take it as you wish- that could mean super actively, or as more of a witness, or some secret third mode of engagement. Warning: Emmett will be sharing a variety of open-ended movement prompts as well as some pre-structured movement to follow along and do (if you want) and at the end you will be invited to learn and form a relationship with A Phrase that we will repeat in unison and perform in smaller groups.
10:00 AM - 12:30 PM on Friday, June 23rd
Talbolt Johnson will facilitate a class on his Rhythm Body Culture Expression system
at Michele Blu's Yoga studio 526 Oldham St, Baltimore, MD 21224
Talbolt Johnson fuses street dance, mime, and performance art to tell stories. This workshop is an introduction to Talbolt’s current techniques and philosophies.
And Finally we will be performing in Baltimore on June 26th!
We will be presenting this year's score at 2640 space - a collectively run non-commercial space.
2640 St. Paul St. Baltimore, MD 2121
Doors will open at 7:00 PM and the performance will be fully underway at 8:00 PM.
This event will be sliding scale $10-25 NOTAFLOF
To reserve space in the workshops or tickets for the 26th - please email
peace,
Peter