Stills.
LAB-L research, creation, visioning residency at Mas Nyamnyam in Mieres, 1-10 April 2024.
9 june 2024 : Public performance restitution, in “Si no vols pols no vinguis” festival ~ Mieres, Spain
With Anat Bosak (Montpellier/Marseille), Julia B. Laperriere (Berlin), and Mariana Viana (Montpellier). We go to Mas Nyamnyam in April to establish who we are as a choreographic platform, how we work, what’s our ethic, and what we will spin together for the next season 2024-2025 and beyond. LAB-L is a structure based in Occitanie, with Chargee d’administration Debora Carvalho. Check out our new website HEREEE and, as ever: www.instagram.com/lab.lplateforme.
More April news: For two weeks in April 2024 I will be in a cohort of 4 artists at the ” IN_prescindibles ” residency at La Poderosa in Barcelona. There I’ll be working out scores and dreaming choreographies for a new trio, DanceLandDayDream #3 : repères, repair. It is early, the thing is still young, and also the scores themselves are as old as time. PERFORMANCE 19 and 20 april, informations here.
Still from Atelier du lundi, Montpellier Danse workshop | November 2023
Updated Facilitation page is here.
Film still, Tucson, Arizona — Tohono O’odham
DanceLandDayDream #1 (desert wash) 32 experiments in wayfaring
DanceLandDayDream #1 ( desert wash ) : 32 experiments in wayfaring is an experimental documentary-style dance film in dialogue with what’s moving in the Sonoran desert wash in Spring. I do a prolonged “site visit”. As a choreographer returning to the land that inspired Every F*cking Thing that I Do ( since 2010, with a fateful dream at once choreographic & archetypal & prophetic & embodied & strange ), as a homesick expat returning to ritualize and memorialize her grandmother’s passing, as a no-longer-teenager coming back to where they went to school and had their heart & ankle broken, and more. I become, inevitably, mover & moved.
Welcome to the desert wash, where water goes to flood.
Contact me for the official “avant premiere” viewing incantation if you are burning to see this now.
~ Currently creating conditions to premiere. ~
Duration: 13 minutes
Concept, Direction & Performance: Marion Storm
Editor: Anat Bosak
Distribution: LAB-L
Recent
What’s in a Site Visit: On DanceLandDayDreaming
November 7, 2023
University Saint-Charles / Jardin des Plantes Montpellier / Gallerie Glassbox Sud
+ What’s in a Site Visit: On DanceLandDayDreaming
+ Hydrofeminist Walking Practice
Marion Storm will provide testimony of her site-responsive choreographic methodology, framing the site visit as an integral, strange, aberrant, unwieldy encounter between body and place. She will expound upon the live dancing moment that can arise from a highly sensitive reading of a given terrain and what is already moving there, using her series of performative experiments DanceLandDayDreams to ground her discussion—and to really envision together what could be at stake in such a highly sensitive visitation and encounter with place. Following the journée d’études, Storm will transport us to the botanical garden the way a cell transports fluid through the body. She will provide a loose container, a score, for reading, walking, and talking together until we reach a particular watery refuge. Sensing hydropoetic action along the way, we will spill into the city only to pool back together in the botanical garden, with her many mysteries, stories, entanglements and smells.
Untitled Parasiting
October 23-26, 2023
Master exerce, ICI-CCN Centre Choregraphique National Montpellier
Note: This is a closed offering for the Master exerce class.
For four days in October I will take part as participant-observer, interlocutor-shadow-sited-researcher, affectionate parasite ready to study, contribute, and absorb, in Jennifer Monson’s intervention at Master Exerce.
Être(s) situé(s), de la source aux confluences
October 13-18, 2023
Festival “Entre cour et jardins” at Jardins de Barbirey, Barbirey-sur-Ouche
From the laboratory organizers: Être(s) situé(s) est le 1er volet d’un laboratoire pensé autour du travail de Laurent Pichaud, adossé au festival. Temps de partage et d’explorations d’outils sensibles, il engage des étudiant··e·s, des habitant·e·s, des artistes et chercheur·euse·s, en amont, pendant et après le festival pour explorer des manières d’agir collectivement face à la “crise de la sensibilité” liée au vivant.
I look forward to convening in the context of this laboratory as one of ten transdisciplinary artist/researcher/practitioners working in the realm of sensation, remedial action, and the interrelationship between body and place.
“Ecopolis” at buda kunstencentrum, KORTRIJK
DanceLandDayDream #4 (Ecopolis) The Studio for Embodied Processing
September 30, 2023
Throughout the day of Ecopolis, Marion Storm will steward the place-score-space called DanceLandDayDream #4 (Ecopolis) : The Studio for Embodied Processing. This studio is a place for informal conversation amongst conference-goers; a score for embodied contemplation of the themes at stake today; and a space for respite and dreaming. Through individual appointments to the space as well as collective “warm up” occasions, Storm will administer traces of her eco-logical creative praxis to an anxiogene—or a pressing question—that visitors can bring with them into the studio throughout the day. The collective warm ups (and their inverse as the day wanes: cool downs) make space for critical themes proposed throughout the day by our guest philosophers and cultural actors to resonate & ripple. As choreographic mentor Neil Greenberg has said many times: Now fill it up with body
With this DanceLandDayDream #4, and as part of a larger corpus of in situ performance experiments that attempt to valorize and foment connections between our body/ies and land/s, Storm asks us to orient toward what is resource-full in embodied practices: in order to find meaning-full ways onward & otherwise.
More info here.
If You Look at Something It’s Always Moving
Subcircle Residency, BIDDEFORD | August 28 – September 6, 2023 | Performance Sunday September 3. More info here.
In Biddeford, Maine over a 10-day Fully Subsidized residency, with collaborating artist Londs Reuter:
If You Look at Something… is a performance practice, interview protocol, and way of arriving and responding to space that Londs and I began developing together in 2021 within the context of her residency at Center for Performance Research in Brooklyn. Last Fall — in 2022 — we premiered it, in a way, as a “listening installation” with Closed Captions, where we presented 10 recorded interviews of co-created (through dialogue!) Imaginary Dances we conducted with choreographers in our communities, including Luara Raio (France), stephanie acosta (New York), Kayla Hamilton (New York), and Pauline L. Boulba (France.) We did some interviews live with attendees of the installation and it has us aching for more.
We are now TAKING THIS PROJECT OUTDOORS, and in a new phase of the Covid-19 pandemic we no longer have the same constraints on GATHERING and LIVENESS as we did when this project began . . .
Water Ways
“Water Ways”, fashioned out of written and drawn materials for my master thesis, created in response to my 2020 solo performance In study with bodies who flood, has been published in the July 2023 “On Rivers” issue of About Place: Link to Water Ways here ~
Unnameable Books, Brooklyn | August 19, 2023 :
A Permanent Parliament by Cory Tamler: Book launch!
In conversation with the author on where the choreographic lives, and how it is transmitted, witnessed, developed, conjured, shared. In dialogue with collaborator Londs Reuter.
Black Hole Hollow, Vermont | August 17 – 18, 2023 :
Hungry Mothers Retreat & Festival
Public Festival on Thursday August 17 & Friday August 18
Hungry Mothers is a transdisciplinary performance collective that proposes, cultivates, and translates ecological relationships in their artistic projects. Together, members of the collective will be in residence at Black Hole Hollow from August 14 to 19. lisa nevada (Canarsie Lands of East Flatbush, Brooklyn), marion storm (Occitanie region of France), Tyler Rai (Nipmuc, Pocumtuc, Agawam territories), Elizabeth Weinstein (Lenni-Lenape Lands of West Philly), and jiordi rosales (Kashia Pomo territories) will begin the week with a silent walk offered by Black Hole Hollow’s Nicole Daunic. Over the course of the week, Hungry Mothers will continue to develop working principles of their collective research, share movement scores and readings, and offer their practices to the land at Black Hole Hollow. Their week in residence at Black Hole Hollow will spill into & conclude with two days of public offerings on Thursday August 17 and Friday August 18.
Check Black Hole Hollow’s website or Hungry Mothers for updated information, and follow @hungrymothers on Instagram for announcements, invitations, and scores for arrival.
Tucson | March 20-26, 2023 :
DanceLandDayDream #1 ( desert wash ) : 32 experiments in wayfaring
Movement research & filming grounded in/on/with the Sonoran desert, for the first iteration of the DanceLandDayDream series — a film revolving around the qualities, knowledge bodies, and states of being proposed by the desert wash.
2022
Fall 2022 ~ A Hot Pile of Compost *
September 19 – October 1, 2022
The Apparitions Method, or like-liquid ~~ ( gathering practices for 3+ )
With Alex & daniel, we write scores for moving together and we perform them in different ecologies: garden, theater, courtyards. incorporating past work experiences at the CCN Montpellier + 3 bis f Aix + now Buda Courtrai. incorporating what we know and what we long for for this project. a project that exists in body, in terrain, in archive, in the nature of the gathering itself (rassemblement). studio visits often, come by!
[creation residency]
[dance project]
October 9 – November 7, 2022
Solo choreographic research (click thru for rehearsal diaries!)
To research & rehearse this infinite transit: movement principles -> dancing states -> chain reactions produced in/by/with the site
or….how a space absorbs the dancing / how the place dialogues the dancing / how the dancing and the land make moves together
MORNING CLASS – REGISTER HERE – DESCRIPTION :
9h30 – 11h —-> fri. 10/21 + wed. 10/26 + wed. 11/2
Each of the residents takes a turn leading morning practice monday, wednesday, and fridays. mine will be “tools for rest & recovery”, and is less about flowing into an embodied state or a full comprehensive warm up, and more about me kind of demonstrating and downloading some tools from different somatic/sensing modalities that I find very helpful for a) arrival into the studio, b) a warm up, c) injury prevention/recovery. some comfort in a studio and movement context is a good idea but i wouldn’t say this is for Dancers only.
Please register or tell me you’re coming.
[research]
[morning class]
November 11 – 12, 2022
If You Look at Something It’s Always Moving
Collaging voice, caption, and fantasy, this installation features a dynamic system of questions that form an imaginary dance—free of constraints like budgets or gravity or scheduling… Collaborating with Londs Reuter, bringing these imaginary dances to Center for Performance Research this fall!
[ listening installation ]
November 17 & 19, 2022
Workshop series at Tinicum Wetlands + Headlong
Co-teaching with fellow member of The Hungry Mothers Collective, Elizabeth Weinstein in Philadelphia, PA for 2 days in November. Honoring & moving with the w e t l a n d s ~~
Image credit: Koofreh Umoren
[ listening installation ]
Ongoing
Association Practice (working title!)
As newcomers to this French ecology, we are knowledge-sharing & platform-ing one another’s choreographic research. Based in Montpellier. Haunting performances together. Giving feedback. Drop in, mise-en-reseau – write to join us!
[somatic labs]
[ knowledge shares]
* A Hot Pile of Compost, this season’s title, is a quote from Donna Haraway’s Staying with the Trouble. It feels tailored to how I am working and trying to work this year as an independent artist stirring and experimenting in shifting assemblages of incredible artists, circumstances, and Places. Grateful for that compost-y language and grateful to be creating pretexts for gathering thru dance-making! – msb
Soiree Astrale : Futurs possibles
14 juillet 2022 : Teaching a one hour movement x site class
3 bis f – lieu d’arts contemporains / Aix-en-Provence / 15h-16h
Reservations HERE.
The Chocolate Factory Queens NY –
In residence with The Hungry Mothers Collective for an emergent site x movement x sound performance & pedagogy. June 2022.
Ellis Beauregard Foundation Rockland ME-
in residence with Londs Reuter for our dialogic project The Interview (working title). June 2022.
2021 & earlier
Apparitions at the reef
dance performance / installation & choreographic protocol created with daniel luhmann & alex viteri arturo, premiered May 20, 2021 at ICI-CCN Montpellier. Visit our project page HERE.
Ouverture de residence, at Soiree Astrale no. 3 : Printemps, 26 Mars 2022 / 3 bis f, Aix-en-Provence.
Upcoming creation residency, BUDA Kunstencentrum / Courtrai / 19 sept – 1 oct 2022
Photo credit: Clarissa Baumann
Purchase Flood Drafts, a field guide to sensuous repair HERE.
co-edited by marion storm, Tyler Rai & Kate Weiner, co-written with the Hungry Mothers Collective. published by Loam Magazine, April 2021.
Update: Sold out! In talks for a reprint so message if interested.
Purchase the Collaborative Precarity Bodyhacking Work-Book
(currently printing 2nd edition) — HERE!
Co-written with Cory Tamler & Elae Lynne DaSilva-Johnson, published by The Operating System, January 2019.
A Lexique for G-Spot Island,
Qalqalah’s online editorial platform. Forthcoming Fall 2021!
co-written and collated with Luara Raio and Line Ajan, Winter/Spring 2021 forthcoming.
Update: This was sadly a project that never materialized due to Covid-19.
CONFERENCE CALL series in collaboration with Londs Reuter
hosted by Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY US
May 2021
~ We will experiment with turning off our screens & creating a collective transmission. A radio hour for the soul in these distanced / on-screen times. ~
Final memoire writing project for Master Exerce,
positions of meander: writing from within the floodplain. watch HERE.
September 2020
resistance fantasies: strategies for moving toward— and against—
a dance performance and a series of somatic experiments presented by Exponential Festival
Target Margin Theater, Brooklyn
6-9pm, $20 tickets, $15 Artist Rate (code= STORMY15 for this discount)
for tickets, CLICK HERE.
to support the rehearsal & production process CLICK HERE.
this project is supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergeny Grant, Materials for the Arts, Pentacle, and countless individuals.
January 23-26, 2019
November 26, 2018
The Cops Are Studying!
a civil resistance drag performance at CUNY Graduate Center, with lead artist Rina Espiritu and artists Cory Tamler, Alex Viteri Arturo, and Sierra Ortega.
2pm – 9pm, come and go as you wish. Bring cop costumes, come ready to study! A limited selection of costumes will be provided.
September 8, 2018
resistance fantasies (work in progress showing)
a showing at Fast Forward Labs’ office space in downtown Brooklyn.
July 9-13, 2018
stormy presented a paper at the International Federation for Theatre Research Conference as part of the ‘Choreography & Corporeality’ Working Group
Belgrade, Serbia
June 9, 2018
Static
Dancing for Phoebe Berglund, Villa Empain, Brussels
2pm-5pm
“Each composition repeats itself in a loop with very few changes or even no transformation; the dance is thus constructed of subtle transitions that create infinite variations of a single image.” – Note from the choreographer
June 3, 2018
NO DANCING (A proposal…)
La MaMa Moves! Festival, AUNTS
5pm – 8pm
May 26, 2018
NO DANCING (A proposal…)
McCarren Park, Brooklyn
4pm
live performance at the Brooklyn Art Book Fair
May 6, 2018
NO DANCING (A proposal…)
Vital Joint, 106 Meserole Street
4:30pm – 7:30pm
come and go as you wish, $15 at the door
April 25, 2018
slow Wall Street women walk
The three original blocks of Wall Street, NYC
8:15am-9am
public performance comprised of a group of women walking slowly across Wall Street during morning rush hour
March 12, 2018
Criminals of the Dream / Face the Music
Dancing for Nadia Tykulsker with Lydia Mokdessi, Roulette, Brooklyn
Face the Music youth orchestra performs Greg Saunier’s Criminals of the Dream
February 18, 2018
NO DANCING (a proposal…)
Vital Joint, 106 Meserole
split bill with Lydia Mokdessi
January 21, 2018
untitled showing
Dancing for Phoebe Berglund, MoMA P.S. 1, Queens NY
2-4pm
September 23, 2017
Riverboat
Bushwick Open Studios, Chez Bushwick Studio, Brooklyn
4-6pm
July 30, 2017
Resistance Fantasies
Workshop, taught through International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education (IDOCDE) symposium
ImPulsTanz Festival, Vienna, AUS
June 2-10, 2017
A dance project for 2017
public park, Philadelphia; Nature Art in the Park exhibit, opening reception, Baltimore; Local Produce Festival, Brooklyn; invited showing, Brooklyn
site-responsive, time-based performance installation
January 27-28 2017
This is disaster management.
Artist-in-Residence (Chez Bushwick) culmination performance, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn
June 3, 2016
glitterdirt
54 howard ave
Installation/performance
6pm-11pm
come and go as you wish, suggested donation
February 1, 2016
Wings Downstage Right
(dancing for Phoebe Berglund)
Movement Research at Judson Church
Manhattan. 8pm.
December 17, 2015
(we’re trying not to move.)
FAB X AUNTS
WOW Cafe Theatre, Manhattan. 8pm.
September 5, 2015
(we’re trying not to move.)
Index Arts Center,
Newark, NJ. 8pm.
June 13, 2015
this is our nine to five (we’re trying not to move.)
rabbithole projects
dumbo, brooklyn. 6:30-11:30pm.
April 5, 2015
This is our nine to five
CPR
Brooklyn, NY. 1pm.
November 4, 2014
Insouciant Little Girls
under exposed series, dixon place
new york, ny. 7pm.
October 17 – 26, 2014
sprat artistic ensemble’s Henri
(choreographer)
the smith center
las vegas, nv
September 28 – October 30, 2014
anne wilson’s To Cross (Walking New York)
(walking on thursdays & sundays)
the drawing center
soho, new york
September 6 & 7, 2014
survival (work) / movement (play)
Gowanus Arts Building
Brooklyn, NY
July 20, 2014
a process showing for survival(work)/movement(play)
featuring sophie bromberg, stormy, maire mccrea & lindsey weaving
Gowanus Arts Buliding
Brooklyn, NY
July 11, 2014
We Are Water
Dancing for Emie Hughes
Brandywine River Museum
Chadds Ford, PA
June 7, 2014
brain/storm showing
with Spoke the Hub’s
Local Produce Festival
Park Slope, Brooklyn
May 31, 2014
a solo more about landmarks & less about progress
a three-day residency culminating an evening of performance, technology and time-based art, curated by catherine siller.
The Moran Plant, and waterfront
Burlington, Vermont
April 27, 2014
excerpt of new work: brain/storm
Fertile Ground at Green Space
Long Island City, NY
February 25, 2014
half-life
Five Myles Gallery
Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY
February 14, 2014
two-person movement installation (sketch for half-life)
Roulette
Brooklyn, NY
January 26, 2014
(half-life) x 3
Gowanus Arts Building
Brooklyn, NY
June 1, 2013
brunch as manic/pelvic
AUNTS
Arts@Renaissance
Brooklyn, NY
Marion Storm 