Jennifer Monson: Live Dancing Archive

For over a decade, choreographer Jennifer Monson focused her research on the migratory patterns of birds and whales in her project BIRD BRAIN. In 2002, she and three other dancers followed osprey along the coast of the eastern United States to Venezuela. More recently, Monson has returned to the theatrical stage as a soloist, proposing that dancing itself has the potential to archive ecological systems. In this program, Monson uses dance, video, and conversation to reveal the ways her research informs her dance making and how the animal migration patterns she observed continue to provide compositional and metaphorical inspiration for her performed improvisations. Dance and culture writer Zachary Whittenburg joins Monson to talk about the ongoing evolution of her work.

This program is generously underwritten by Elizabeth A. Liebman.