Critical Moves Contemporary Dance Series presents:

LOOPS - New Iterations

an evening of performance to kick off the opening of an exhibition inspired by Merce Cunningham's LOOPS and OpenEndedGroup's digital art work LOOPS

performance featuring
Jonah Bokaer – dance performance
Marjorie Morgan – dance performance
Marc Downie (OpenEnded Group) – Keynote talk

Reservations via this website or at the door.

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BIOS / Descriptions

Jonah Bokaer (NYC)
is an award-winning choreographer and media artist. He has dedicated a short lifetime to expanding possibilities for live performance through choreography, digital media, crossdisciplinary collaborations, and social enterprise, in the United States and internationally. Bokaer has worked with Merce Cunningham (2000-2007), John Jasperse (2004-2005), David Gordon (2005-2006), Deborah Hay (2005), Tino Sehgal (2008), and many others. His work has been presented widely throughout venues in the United States and abroad, including Cornell University, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dixon Place, La Mama ETC, P.S. 122, Symphony Space, the ISB (Bangkok), Naxos Bobine, Studio Théâtre de Vitry, and La Générale (Paris) to name a few. Bokaer has been honored with a Human Rights Award (Public Volunteerism, 2000), a fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Dance & Media, 2005-2006), the inaugural Gallery Installation Fellowship from Dance Theater Workshop (2007), and one of four national Dance Access Scholarships from Dance/USA, with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2007)

Marjorie Morgan (Boston)
is a Boston-area choreographer, composer, dancer and singer whose work often combines elements of movement, live sound, music and text. She is particularly fascinated with the territory between composition and improvisation and between narrative and abstraction. She has trained in voice and movement with members of the Roy Hart Theater and is currently exploring vocal work with Jonathan Hart Makwaia. Ms. Morgan’s original works have won her two awards for outstanding achievement in the arts (The Louis Sudler Award and the Tanne Foundation Award) and repeated Best of Boston Awards from The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald and The Boston Phoenix. Ms. Morgan’s website is www.marjoriemorgan.org. Marjorie has worked in collaboration with trombonist Tom Plsek, Croatian printmaker Boris Kajmak, lute player and singer Christopher Schaub, and visual artist Whitney Robbins. She has performed and toured nationally and internationally with the companies of Pooh Kaye, Paula ( Josa-Jones, Caitlin Corbett, Brian Crabtree, Snappy Dance Theater, and the Mobius Artists Group. Marjorie is a professor in the Theater Department at the Boston Conservatory.

Jed Speare - Sound & Video
is a crossover artist working in a variety of media and settings. Initially trained in music composition, he has presented sound, performance, video, installation, conceptual, and community-based works locally, nationally, and internationally for over thirty years.
In Boston, he has been known primarily as a member of the Mobius Artists Group since 1995 and as the Co-Director and Director of Mobius from 1996 through 2004. He has recently been Director of Studio Soto, a space for ideas, since 2006. In March 2008, writing about his album 'Sound Works 1982-1987' and his career, Wire magazine stated, "this unsung composer is a pioneer of multimedia presentation."