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Created by Melinda Ring, Impossible Dance #2 (still life) is thirty-minute solo improvisation, situated in a three-walled room made of clamped together theater flats, that involves the accumulation of objects (furniture and found objects) and gestures in the space. Moments of slowing and pausing combine with physical disorientation, in which the improviser moves off-kilter through disorderly accumulation. The dance requires the splitting and layering of multiple kinds of attention and memory.

  • vanishing points: Movement Research Fall Festival
  • Impossible Dance #2 (still life)
  • Embodied Scores: Methods of Archiving
  • Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge
  • Danspace Project’s Platform 2011: Body Madness
  • Practices for Slow Encounters: A Festival for Camera & Body
  • Structural Frames: How Collections Are Built
  • Judson Dance Theater: The Work is Never Done
  • Archiving the Gesture
  • Desire Lines
  • Clown Therapy
  • Darkness Odyssey
  • Memory House
  • Embodiment: Practice as Research
  • Grandma performance tour
  • 2018 Next Wave Festival
  • Vault
  • Access as Creative Methodology
  • Gathering Space
  • Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum, Transmission & Understanding Symposium
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Living Archives

Mapping the Unruly: Melinda Ring’s Impossible Dances

Melinda Ring and Kai Kleinbard

Bennington College

2017

Curating

Impossible Dances: Past and Future

Melinda Ring and Kai Kleinbard

Movement Research at Danspace Project

2015