Melinda Ring

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an as-yet-untiltled workChoreographed by: Melinda Ring in collaboration with the performers
Performed by: Amelia Heintzelman, Ayano Elson, Laurel Atwell, Molly Ross, and Paul Hamilton
Rehearsal Director: Laurel AtwellWork-in- Progress showing
June 1, 2026 7pm
Movement Research at the Judson Church

Project Proposal
Video - Rehearsal ClipsAll types of support, individual and institutional, are needed now to make this work happen. Funds, residencies, and venues to present the work, are all necessary to match the ambitiousness of the project. If you’re able please support the work by DONATION, made possible with the generous assisstance of New York Live Arts’ fiscal sponsorship program.

Laurel Atwell has been performing and building performance-driven work since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College in 2008. Her work and collaborations have been presented at MoMA PS1, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, Movement Research at Judson Memorial Church, Center for Performance Research, Gibney Dance, Abrons Arts Center, Dixon Place; as part of Sundays on Broadway, Performa ’11, CATCH, Offerings; and have shown in Los Angeles, CA, Marfa, TX, Minneapolis, MN, and New Haven, CT. She has worked with luciana achugar, Phoebe Berglund, Kim Brandt, Camilla Carper, Barnett Cohen, Milka Djordjevich (for which Atwell received a 2018 Bessie nomination for her performance in ANTHEM), Beth Gill, Ursula Eagly, Nikima Jagudajev, Melanie Maar, and Melinda Ring, among others. Atwell participated in the 2022 Maumaus Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal, beginning corresponding live and video projects that attempt to decipher the new perceptions of reality, desire, and mortality thanks to the internet, as well as merge the necessities and benefits of the organized group (towards policy, agenda, legible accomplishment) with the disorganized group (towards intuition, pleasure, the self maintained). She is a qi gong facilitator and Reiki practitioner.
Ayano Elson is an Okinawan–American dancer and choreographer. Her choreography has been presented by the Kitchen, The Chocolate Factory, Danspace Project, Pageant, and Roulette, among others. She is currently dancing for Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, and Melinda Ring, and has danced for Milka Djordjevich, Simone Forti, Niall Jones, Gwendolyn Knapp, Ella Dawn W-S, Juli Brandano, and Alexa West at museums, galleries, and theaters in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City.
Paul Hamilton is a Jamaican-born, Bessie Award-winning dancer/choreographer who has collaborated with a wide range of choreographers. His longest ongoing collaboration, with Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group since 2000, has yielded five original works: Black Burlesque (revisited) 2003, the Bessie-winning Big Brick 2004, The Good Dance dakar/brooklyn 2009, the duet 2012, and Moses(es) 2014. With Keely Garfield: Scent of Mental Love 2005, Telling the Bees 2013, Wow 2014, and Pow 2016. With National Medal of Arts winner Ralph Lemon: Scaffold Room and Chirus 2015. For the MoMA, he has restaged Bruce Nauman’s Wall Floor Position in the largest-ever retrospective of the artist’s work and performed in works by David Gordon and Deborah Hay. Other notable performances include two Bessie-winning productions—Jane Comfort’s 40th Anniversary Retrospective and David Thomson’s He his own mythical beast—and works by Melinda Ring and Neil Greenberg. He has toured and lectured internationally. His work as a choreographer was most recently seen in Kevin Beasley’s Sound of Morning, Performa 2021.
Amelia Heintzelman is a dancer. She has shown work at Center for Performance Research, Draftwork at Danspace Project, Issue Project Room, Movement Research at Judson Church, Pageant, and Snug Harbor. She has performed for Kim Brandt, Jesi Cook, Ayano Elson, Deborah Hay, Melinda Ring, evan ray suzuki, and Alexa West. She teaches at Movement Research and Pageant, and rarely/sometimes teaches Comedy Pilates.
Molly Ross is a dancer and choreographer from Michigan. She has been based in NYC since 2017. Her solo projects have been presented at Grace Exhibition Space, PAGEANT, Essex Flowers, FourOneOne, and the Wild Project. She is also in an ongoing collaboration with Nola Sporn Smith. As a performer, she has recently worked with Melinda Ring, Laurel Atwell, Juliana May, Alexa West, Peter BD, and others. When not dancing, Molly works as a bookkeeper.


Funding Credits

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		<title>Strange Engagements</title>
				
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	Strange Engagements, 2020, Danspace Project, New York
	photographs: ©Paula Court


Strange Engagements is a highly physical, exuberant, and uninhibited work made for, and in collaboration with, an extraordinary group of dancers: Laurel Atwell, Talya Epstein, Paul Hamilton, Sam Kim, and Rainey White. Constructed from the dancers’ improvisations — research in which Ring asked them to act as a conduit channeling complex shared rhythms and inner music — this work is driven from within.


The dancers plunge into private combinations, often with separate agendas, while flashes of form and pattern illuminate the deliberateness of the polyrhythmic chaos. Like Ring’s X (2010), which premiered 10 years ago at Danspace Project, Strange Engagements is deeply musical, yet danced almost completely in silence — its unheard anthem loud and driving. The thrill of Strange Engagements is in watching the performers navigate its considerable performative demands. This dance is&#38;nbsp; monstrously intricate.


Danspace Project, January 30 - February 1, 2020

Lighting Design: Kathy Kaufman
Costumes: Melinda Ring


Review - Dance Enthusiast

Preview - New York Times Instagram

21 Questions about Strange Engagements
Video - Excerpt


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		<title>Forgetful Snow</title>
				
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	Forgetful Snow, The Landscape, 2014, The Kitchen, New York&#38;nbsp;
	photographs: © Paula Court
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	Forgetful Snow, 2014, The Box, Los Angeles
	 
	photographs: Naotaka Hiro

Forgetful Snow


A triptych composed of two durational performances and an evening-length dance, Forgetful Snow investigates the transcendent possibilities of body and mind. By day, performers in the installations The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) Machine&#38;nbsp;labor at searching for landscapes, retrieving lost moments of time and archiving the accumulating results. These simple tasks involving the body, video, and language are quietly focused and mysterious. In the evening, the dance is performed without clothing and accompaniment to strip it of layered-on meaning and emotion. Presented instead is an intimate and formally complex choreography with elusive performative demands and textures. 

Choreography and concept: Melinda Ring, in collaboration with Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones and Molly Lieber


The Kitchen, May 8–17, 2014
Curator: Matthew Lyons

The dancePerformers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber


The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) Machine

Performers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Luke George, Federico Hewson, K.J. Holmes, Maggie Jones, Macklin Kowal, Molly Lieber
The Box, July 11–20, 2014
Curator, Mara McCarthy

The dancePerformers: Lorene Bouboushian, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber

The Landscape and Memory (of Snow) MachineLorene Bouboushian, Dorothy&#38;nbsp;Dubrule, Talya Epstein,&#38;nbsp;Maggie Jones,&#38;nbsp;Jmy James Kidd,&#38;nbsp;Molly Lieber,&#38;nbsp;Jos&#38;nbsp;McKain, Betty&#38;nbsp;Nguyen, Melinda Ring,&#38;nbsp;Allison Wyper

Lighting Design: Paul ClayVideo Consultant: Howard SilverAudio Consultant: Paul Chavez

Chapbook - Contact Quarterly
excerpt -&#38;nbsp;White On White, Melinda Buckwalter

Review - New York Times
Preview - Bomb Magazine

Preview - Art in AmericaVideo - Rehearsal Clip

Forgetful Snow Reading (viewing) List:
Oscar Niemeyer: Architecte de Brasilia
Notes on the Cinematographer, Robert Bresson
The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard
Marcel Duchamp, Anne D’harnoncourt, Kynaston McShine
Moominland Midwinter, Tove Jansson
Snow, Orhan Pamuk

Funding Credits


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		<dc:creator>Melinda Ring</dc:creator>

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c lo &#38;nbsp;u &#38;nbsp; d, 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
	photographs: ©Paula Court
c lo &#38;nbsp;u &#38;nbsp; d


Meant for an intimate audience, this evening-length dance takes place in an imagined room — which is continually expanding, contracting, shifting directions, refracted within the actual room. Morphing like clouds, performers and space share a swirling energy. Sometimes the dancers mirror each other; sometimes they are “ordinary people” (under a dark cloud) whose frustration, anger, and sadness propel them toward destructive behavior. Delicate structures often slip out of sync into unruliness, reconfigured through the nudge of a current. These unseen forces extend to the viewers, guiding their physical proximity in relationship to this de-centered work as it progresses…with a heightened sense of sharing the experience.


April 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
July 8, 2018, 4pm, Summit Rock, Central Park, New York

Performers: Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Melinda Ring, and Rainey White

Through a collaborative process, Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber, Kayvon Pourazar and Rainey White's improvisations and impulses are woven into the structure of c lo&#38;nbsp; u &#38;nbsp; d.Lighting design: Paul ClayProduction Management: Lillie DeCostumes: Melinda RingStudio Assistant: Rainey White


read A Code of Clouds, Cori OlinghouseVideo - Gibney DiP Residency Profile
Video - c lo &#38;nbsp;u &#38;nbsp; d excerpt


Funding Credits</description>
		
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		<title>Shiny Angles in Angular Time</title>
				
		<link>https://melindaring.com/Shiny-Angles-in-Angular-Time</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 00:55:51 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Melinda Ring</dc:creator>

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	Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR
	photographs: Linda Austin
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Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
	photograph: Brian Rogers&#60;img width="1800" height="1200" width_o="1800" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/617a6787afbe4835d69de26cd39f1fb3733b1abff442cabced0cacb8c779d5b1/shiny_angles_in_angular_time_29_ring_archibald_c_court.JPG" data-mid="144480854" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/617a6787afbe4835d69de26cd39f1fb3733b1abff442cabced0cacb8c779d5b1/shiny_angles_in_angular_time_29_ring_archibald_c_court.JPG" /&#62;
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Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
	photographs: ©Paula Court

Shiny Angles in Angular Time — a full-length solo danced by Renée Archibald, made in collaboration with choreographer Melinda Ring—is a dialogue with seen and unseen forces.


The audience is seated at one end of a transparent room within a room, for this work in four reciprocal parts. In each part, in different ways, the performer is in dialogue with the room (the main seen force).


Part two is a fanciful minimalistic reexamination of some of the basic rules of theatrical perspective in which Archibald and Ring ask “how can I act on the space and can the space in turn act upon me?”


If part two is a kind of laboratory, part four is its findings put into action. It is an understatedly virtuosic choreography—that acts to describe shifting parameters, again, in relationship to the volume of the room. Danced without musical accompaniment, the work still attends exquisitely to musicality, as it also attempts to describe the elusive “angular time”.


Parts one and three utilize an inflatable rectangular object and projected video.


April 2018, Chocolate Factory Theater, Queens, NY
October 2018, Performance Works NW, Portland, OR

Choreography, Setting and Video: Melinda Ring and Renée Archibald

Performer: Renée Archibald

Lighting: Paul Clay

Costumes: Melinda Ring

Production Management: Lillie De

Funding Credits

video element, Shiny Angles in Angular Time, 2018</description>
		
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		<title>YOU ME ME YOU</title>
				
		<link>https://melindaring.com/YOU-ME-ME-YOU</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 00:56:39 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Melinda Ring</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://melindaring.com/YOU-ME-ME-YOU</guid>

		<description>
	&#60;img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f2b989d2905142f20c6cf9a44385f300a5223171b02ed715be9bad429af7a8c/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_00_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" data-mid="144484469" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8f2b989d2905142f20c6cf9a44385f300a5223171b02ed715be9bad429af7a8c/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_00_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" /&#62;

	
&#60;img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84d99f7e2c1c9230626ce1209f1e1a20c48cf0bbf968c7891109c4df9a8038d3/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_01_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" data-mid="144484470" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84d99f7e2c1c9230626ce1209f1e1a20c48cf0bbf968c7891109c4df9a8038d3/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_01_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" /&#62;
&#60;img width="1800" height="1800" width_o="1800" height_o="1800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0fcc63dde9ab821af37e81581fe89fb8a6c96ce08d65e2e6789a0f7ca0382006/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_02_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" data-mid="144484471" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0fcc63dde9ab821af37e81581fe89fb8a6c96ce08d65e2e6789a0f7ca0382006/YOU_ME_ME_YOU_02_Ring_c_Ring.JPG" /&#62;
promo &#38;amp; photographs: Melinda Ring


YOU &#38;nbsp;ME &#38;nbsp;ME &#38;nbsp;YOU, &#38;nbsp;2021
a participatory act of mind-melding — seeing and being each other’s mirror image

1.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Feel the connection between the soles your feet and the ground beneath you.2.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Attend to your breathing…….then your partner’s breathing as well.3.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; Merge your partner’s with your own, until their breathing becomes your breathing.4.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; And a vibratory forcefield connects the two of you.5.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; The movement that arises from this situation might be subtle or bold.6.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; No one leads and no one follows.7.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; You are a Rorschach, a butterfly, two halves of one body...8.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp; ...you me me you you me me you...


Chocolate Factory Theater, June 2021

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		<title>for the birds</title>
				
		<link>https://melindaring.com/for-the-birds</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 01:04:36 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Melinda Ring</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://melindaring.com/for-the-birds</guid>

		<description>&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c9bf85d3b848b3db3c1b15b869775c95cf273c56e741652c7551df1234a2d249/for_the_birds_00_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" data-mid="144611620" border="0" data-scale="100" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/c9bf85d3b848b3db3c1b15b869775c95cf273c56e741652c7551df1234a2d249/for_the_birds_00_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" /&#62;&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/14589414684d1803401ed055891fca998a8d5ad940be8aff24d86acc7ab7c7d2/for_the_birds_06_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" data-mid="144611632" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/14589414684d1803401ed055891fca998a8d5ad940be8aff24d86acc7ab7c7d2/for_the_birds_06_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" /&#62;&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e85e3dbdac8032fa5401c456206d902e17ad2c477377981b285c47b61f2e1141/for_the_birds_04_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" data-mid="144611630" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/e85e3dbdac8032fa5401c456206d902e17ad2c477377981b285c47b61f2e1141/for_the_birds_04_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" /&#62;&#38;nbsp;
cloud roost&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb99a1eea327de7e3f03885c43ba76ffea7b741e07e265f29f15209ec4b9f99f/for_the_birds_01_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" data-mid="144611623" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/cb99a1eea327de7e3f03885c43ba76ffea7b741e07e265f29f15209ec4b9f99f/for_the_birds_01_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" /&#62;
for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angelesphotographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle&#60;img width="540" height="405" width_o="540" height_o="405" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c93b6f5d61cbadd5b8de649128c77169e982ef068d80caa5a138461dce6468a5/for_the_birds_04_ring_nelson_c_ring.JPG" data-mid="144611629" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/c93b6f5d61cbadd5b8de649128c77169e982ef068d80caa5a138461dce6468a5/for_the_birds_04_ring_nelson_c_ring.JPG" /&#62;for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angelesphotograph: Melinda Ring&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f9516222eb57172fdfca4707417ee558f56756e1b3c37e2c63580e401aade747/for_the_birds_03_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" data-mid="144611628" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/f9516222eb57172fdfca4707417ee558f56756e1b3c37e2c63580e401aade747/for_the_birds_03_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" /&#62;&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/45279d888b10791134c1fc61ccda4fc1c554af674d2200122eed87eb3c379030/for_the_birds_02_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" data-mid="144611625" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/45279d888b10791134c1fc61ccda4fc1c554af674d2200122eed87eb3c379030/for_the_birds_02_ring_nelson_rounkle.JPG" /&#62;
for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angelesphotographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/353620c1f834c1fd7252677c85cccd245db45397fae6e66f3f37b2973379fd29/for_the_birds_06_ring_nelson_Sarabeth_Puusemp.JPG" data-mid="144611633" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/353620c1f834c1fd7252677c85cccd245db45397fae6e66f3f37b2973379fd29/for_the_birds_06_ring_nelson_Sarabeth_Puusemp.JPG" /&#62;
for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angelesphotograph: Sarabeth Puusemp&#60;img width="540" height="405" width_o="540" height_o="405" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b520c6f8f9117bbd65d0ea4f6f818108ed13994d5f68c8f22a5ff8add2208a6e/for_the_birds_00_ring_nelson_c_Branaman.jpg" data-mid="144611619" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/b520c6f8f9117bbd65d0ea4f6f818108ed13994d5f68c8f22a5ff8add2208a6e/for_the_birds_00_ring_nelson_c_Branaman.jpg" /&#62;
for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angelesphotograph: Bob&#38;nbsp;Branaman&#60;img width="540" height="360" width_o="540" height_o="360" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9fa3c33fc80512ba90cc7343e26c5855035a7211a28dabd4eaf663be859b8a15/for_the_birds_08_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" data-mid="144611635" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/9fa3c33fc80512ba90cc7343e26c5855035a7211a28dabd4eaf663be859b8a15/for_the_birds_08_ring_nelson_rounkle.jpg" /&#62;
day #4 Elementary Psychedelia,&#38;nbsp;for the birds, 2009, Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Ann-Marie Rounkle&#60;img width="540" height="353" width_o="540" height_o="353" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ea0209f7979f44eed008ea0979025d6a625bcba142d86e83be6b0a5810ee790/for_the_birds_03_ring_nelson_c_ring.jpg" data-mid="144611627" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/3ea0209f7979f44eed008ea0979025d6a625bcba142d86e83be6b0a5810ee790/for_the_birds_03_ring_nelson_c_ring.jpg" /&#62;
day #12 do geese see god, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
&#60;img width="540" height="350" width_o="540" height_o="350" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/57834be0976f057114696698e7ac44ef1aa934ebaf0fef6bcc96836a7ef2456b/for_the_birds_01_ring_nelson.jpg" data-mid="144611622" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/57834be0976f057114696698e7ac44ef1aa934ebaf0fef6bcc96836a7ef2456b/for_the_birds_01_ring_nelson.jpg" /&#62;video still, day #3 wherein the birds enjoy Aretha Franklin, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles&#60;img width="540" height="405" width_o="540" height_o="405" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c22cb34f566134a9356dd86e4f8f613114fc9f1d319e6b0e910f4614ae7a42d1/for_the_birds_05_ring_nelson_c_ring.JPG" data-mid="144617977" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/540/i/c22cb34f566134a9356dd86e4f8f613114fc9f1d319e6b0e910f4614ae7a42d1/for_the_birds_05_ring_nelson_c_ring.JPG" /&#62;
day #21 Farewell Lunch Party, for the birds, 2009,
Melinda Ring Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photograph: Melinda Ring
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day #21 Farewell Lunch Party, for the birds, 2009
Melinda Ring, Jennifer Nelson, The Box, Los Angeles
photographs: Sarabeth Puusemp


for the birds is the first collaborative work of choreographer Melinda Ring and artist Jennifer Nelson. The artists lived in the gallery with twenty-one birds for twenty-one days, and attempted with all sincerity, to create art and choreography that is “for the birds.”


January 18 - February 7, 2009
Opening Orientation: January 18
Farewell Lunch Party: February 7
Daily Feedings 1:30pm


The Box
Los Angeles, CA 
Mara McCarthy, director
Hilary Graves, gallery assistant

With the participation of: Brian Getnick, David Auerbach,&#38;nbsp;Hilary Graves, Joanne Yee,&#38;nbsp;Kira Vollman,&#38;nbsp;Mara McCarthy,&#38;nbsp;Penny Folger, Suzan Averitt


Press ReleaseProject Page - Movement Research Performance Journal #35 Fall 2009
Review - Artillery

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	X, 2010, Danspace Project, New York
	photographs: ©Paula Court


	X
 
Inspired by conceptual artist Dan Graham's film "Rock My Religion, which connects the ecstatic dances of groups like the Shakers with rock and roll. Channeling raw attitude and rapturous energy, X pushes toward a communal catharsis, merging the formal and the ecstatic.


For X, artist Martin Kersels transformed St. Mark's Church, capitalizing on the verticality of the space by suspending a kinetic chandelier (or as he calls it, "a charm") above its center. Kersels' labors in the balcony to create an incidental soundscore, turning the legendarily acoustically live sanctuary into a single enormous sound machine; while below dancers Talya Epstein, Maggie Jones, Molly Lieber, Marilyn Maywald, and Antonietta Vicario boldly generate an equally dynamic physical force-field.


May 13—15, 2010, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, New York

August 13, 2011,&#38;nbsp;Mount Tremper Arts Summer Festival, Mount Tremper, NY

Lighting: Roderick MurrayCostumes: Melinda RingSound and stage assistance: Kimberly Hamlin and Enrico D. Wey


Review - Brooklyn RailReview - New York TimesPreview - The New YorkerPreview - Dance MagazinePreview - Time Out New York


“X took the path to salvation—or wholeness, or at least a better plane of existence than corporate monotony—through the most expansive, encompassing corporeal available…it was a shaggy beast…the show hangs in my mind’s eye now as a swagger, rough around the edges and wandering all over... like the Velvet Underground frenzy “Sister Ray” that is distortion and repetition and improvisation and chaotic simultaneous riffs.” - Mary Love Hodges, The Brooklyn Rail
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	Mouse Auditions, 2010, Whitney Museum, New York
	photographs: ©Paula Court

Mouse Auditions is a meta dance, where the process becomes the product, as Ring holds auditions for a fully imagined but never to be performed work based on Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis." 


Originally shown in the series Live on 5 Songs curated by 2010 Whitney Biennial artist Martin Kersels, whose sculpture, 5 Songs, led a double life as a stage for performance throughout the duration of the Biennial. Mouse Auditions was further developed through a commission from Headlands Center for the Arts for performances staged there.

In the interim — experimenting for a Judson showing — I focused on the very beginning of the story, the time just before, and just after, Gregor Samsa, the main character, wakes-up with an alien physicality.


March 5, 2010,&#38;nbsp;Whitney Museum, New York
April 2011,&#38;nbsp;Movement Research at Judson Church, New York
November 2012,&#38;nbsp;Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

Profile  - San Francisco Bay Guardian, Robert AvilaInterview -&#38;nbsp;The Off Center,&#38;nbsp;Jesse Hewit
Review - Hyperallergic,&#38;nbsp;Brian KarlReview - Hyperallergic,&#38;nbsp;Nancy Agabian


Script from Movement Research@Judson Church ExperimentAudition Questionnaire


Whitney Museum performers: Aaron Hodges, Ashley Wallace, Aston Kyle, Clyde Forth, Elle Erdman, Ellie Kusner,&#38;nbsp;Eva Schmidt,&#38;nbsp;Gale Turner,&#38;nbsp;George Venson,&#38;nbsp;Hilary Brown,&#38;nbsp;Inka Juslin,&#38;nbsp;Jen Harmon,&#38;nbsp;Jeremy Olson,&#38;nbsp;Jessica Cook,&#38;nbsp;Joey Kipp,&#38;nbsp;Katie Dorn,&#38;nbsp;Kristin Hatleberg,&#38;nbsp;Laura Diffenderfer,&#38;nbsp;Laura Lamp,&#38;nbsp;Maria Carlsson,&#38;nbsp;Marilyn Maywald,&#38;nbsp;Melinda Buckwalter,&#38;nbsp;Moa Hanssen,&#38;nbsp;Nancy Agabian,&#38;nbsp;Pedro Jimenez,&#38;nbsp;Pennylyn White,&#38;nbsp;Rebecca Wender,&#38;nbsp;Renée Archibald,&#38;nbsp;Robert Yahner,&#38;nbsp;Roland Schmidt,&#38;nbsp;Sarah Sadie Newett,&#38;nbsp;Siobhan Burke, Wanda Gala

Movement Research at Judson Church Performers:&#38;nbsp;Alexandra Albrecht,&#38;nbsp;Anna-Luella Zahner,&#38;nbsp;Brendan Drake, Elisabete Finger, Enrico Wey,&#38;nbsp;Inka Juslin, Joseph Kipp, Jeremy Olson, Robert Yahner

Headlands performers:&#38;nbsp;Brianna Skellie,&#38;nbsp;Cassie Thornton,&#38;nbsp;Chani Bockwinkel,&#38;nbsp;Christian Nagler,&#38;nbsp;David Wick,&#38;nbsp;Elyse Poppers, Emily Tareila, Esmeralda Kundanis-Grow,&#38;nbsp;Justin Morrison,&#38;nbsp;Kyra Rice,&#38;nbsp;Laurie Van Wieren,&#38;nbsp;Mara Poliak, Maryanna Lachman,&#38;nbsp;Olive Mckeon, Phoebe Osborne, Paul Rucker,&#38;nbsp;Sarah Pritchard,&#38;nbsp;Sophie Reiff,&#38;nbsp;Zoe Donnellycolt


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Page in-progress - Stay Tuned

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	Huh?, 2010, The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY&#38;nbsp;
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