A couple of images from Family Reunion _side2, a solo performance at Chaahama as part of New Dance Alliance WORKSession, March 2023.
More to come from this work and process.
Photo: Julie Lemberger
WORKSESSION 2.0 at Wellfeet Presbyterian Hall, presented by @newdancealliance and @farmprojects/Susie Nielsen.
July 20, 2022
5-6:30PM
Work-in-progress showing of a new solo work, untitled.
It was a delight working with these beautiful dancers and dance makers.
Simulcast by Emma Rose Brown
March 4 & 5, 2022
Gibney Dance Studio, Work-up Series
Photo by Emma Rose Brown
Review by Jonathan Matthews-Guzmán for Eye on Dance
_______________nosespaçosescrevemosonossocorpo at Perfroamce Mix 35 at Movement Research
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Concept: Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro / LAND Project
Performers: Lisa Parra and Daniel Pinheiro
Video and projector design: Kathryn Butler
Livestream tool: Livelab
Karen Bernard @dancemadness will present her new interdisciplinary work, Lakeside, February 6–8 at 8pm, at the Salon/Douglas Dunn Studio @dunndance, 541 Broadway (between Prince and Spring Street). Using a found costume from her past, Bernard conjures a scene where she and her collaborator Lisa Parra inhabit roles of victim, witness, murderer, crisscrossing identities though minimalist movements that have the power to deliver an emotionally charge.
Hello Stranger
September 28, 2019
Alvarado Terrace Park, Pico Union (Los Angeles, CA)
A project conceived by Lisa Parra in collaboration with DJ artist Rosi Martinez
Photos: Arlene Mejorado
The piece is based on photographs of both women in our lives and women who have inspired us. Women who were brave enough to live their duality. These images consist of polaroids, black and white and color photographs from the 1950’s to the 1990’s depicting mostly women, couples and groups of young people in the Latin American communities of Los Angeles, CA. I am particularly interested in the gestures, posturing and dress of these women, who all have a common and distinct way of positioning themselves within group portraits. As part of the work, Rosi (collaborator) and I recreated poses from the archive as a way to embody and trace physical histories and identities. In the recreation we maintain an intense gaze into each other's eyes as we shift from one pose to the next. The gaze is meant to turn the perspective from outward to inward. In this shift a different narrative is created for both Rosi and myself. The intense stare creates a level of discomfort, which as the performance goes on begins to transform our relationship within the context of these poses.
DDD Festival, April 26, 2019. Online, remote performance. Mediated Motion as part of LAND Project, Matosinhos (Portugal) and NYC (USA).
Invited to perform at Festival DDD (Dias da Dança), dance festival in Portugal on April 26 2019, thanks to the invitation of Flávio Rodrigues (artist and curator of DDD OUT*), LAND PROJECT continued to be developed, between February and April in different encounters exploring the concept and notion of “mediated motion” as a form to investigate possibilities of common action at a distance. The encounter aimed, through its development, at exploring possibilities of uniting the remote spaces and locations – Casa da Arquitectura (Matosinhos, Portugal) and LaMaMa Rehearsal Studios (New York, US) the outdoors/public space ( @daniel-pinheiro) with the indoors/intimate space ( @lisaparra ). The performance is a beginning of this research and will be further developed for performance in December, 2019 in Sydney, Australia.
Center for Performance Research, Performance Studio Open House, April 16, 2019. Photo by Kathryn Butler (#3)
The performance is a study that focuses on audio cassette tapes. There are two cassettes, and each contains an audio recording of my family reunion that my sister recorded 18 years ago. The tape consists of sounds of my family talking, laughing, organizing family portraits and introducing family members. A tape record is held between performer, Naomi Elena Ramirez and myself. Naomi and I move along pressing our bodies together to keep the speaker from falling. The pressing of the tape recorder between us alters the sound and recording--volume changes and clarity decreases or increases as we move with it. Currently, this section is being developed. The development of this study currently includes sound design by Eriq Robinson. Using existing cassettes, Eriq made digital recordings that highlight laughter and fragments of conversations. Further research will include use of various microphones to alter volume, emphasize distortion and distance.
Hello Stranger
April 23, 2018
Movement Research at Judson Church
Performers: Lisa + Rosi
Photo: David Gonsier
The performance is a work-in-progress showing of three scenes that involve archival material of family photos, audio tape recording of my family reunion and a live DJ (vinyl)).
lisaparra reblogged
space(s)
space(s) is another encounter between Lisa Parra ( @parralis ) and Daniel Pinheiro ( @daniel-pinheiro ) exploring the possibilities of the networked environment.
Space is a practiced place. Thus the street geometrically defined by urban planning is transformed into a space by walkers. In the same way, an act of reading is a space produced by the practice of a particular place: a written text, i.e.: a place constituted by a system of signs. - Michel De Certeau
(De Certeau, ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’, 117, quoted in Kaye, 'Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation, 4; quoted in Steve Dixon’s 'Digital Performance - A History of New Media in Theater, Dance, Performance Art, and Installation’, 411)
In the darkness, We move forward, in an unknown territory, a territory devoid of references, without meaning. As we move ahead, as we go through the surface, through the edges, as we follow the contours, we intersect shapes and elements. In that space, it becomes… impossible to perceive what we intersect. We resort to memory, to reproduce what we think we are in fact intersecting. We resort to memory, of things we already know, so we can name the things, and make that space, somehow recognizable. In that space, where distance is impossible to measure, we try… that opacity becomes lesser… where are you when you’re not here?!
- Placelessness, 2015; LAND PROJECT
As the place - space - is built by a relationship of coexistence; remote places become a single distributed continuous area expanded through a networked system of communication - the specificity of this place [site-specific] is a consequence of what happens within it. The personal sense of position, in regard to common referentials, is disrupted by fracturing the distance between (at least) two physical locations. This perception is an altered state caused by a sensorial experience of practicing this new multi-location extended placelessness inhabited by actions that, through light, gradually unveil a unified mixed reality.
By playing with the possibility offered by darkness and with light, the doubled space is demarcated by the actions developed, its liminality allows for a careful disorientation of participants inviting them to ‘enter’ each other’s distinct location and compose a representation of what’s being simultaneously constructed.
The body finds itself in the middle of this ambiguity, no longer claiming a singular identity but possibly assuming the other as an extension of its own. These ambiguous bodies are constantly in a state of becoming, a transdividual exchange that is a writing of this space, only tangible through its embodiment – its practice, constituting an archetypal system.
Through the screen, both the sense of presence (body) and space (place), within networked environments are exerted to the extent that they undermine traditional preconceptions of their significance. This non-place is a constant transitory state between the physical and the immateriality of its augmentation; inhabited by its agents/actors it becomes a site-specific where both the perception of location and self are shared between them, a communicant place where one end is not a copy of the other, where both are real and coexist in the same time – this one limited to the length of its duration – an area of action, liberated from normative constraints.
see time lapse video of the encounter here.
lisaparra reblogged
Distant Feeling(s) #4
Join us for the fourth session of Distant Feeling(s), a project by Lisa Parra @parralis, Annie Abrahams @e-stranger and Daniel Pinheiro @daniel-pinheiro. A series of online webcam meetings trying to experience each other’s presence - eyes closed and no talking.
This session marks the first of a commitment to a yearly reconnection where we invite others to join, online, and be part of this online ritual of contemplation on our situation of being together while being separated. An ever-changing re-enactment of our intra-action with machines.
Friday December 1st 2017, 7.30 - 7.45PM (GMT+1) - find your time here. Online. Open to all.
If you want to join us, you need to install the zoom application on your computer or cell phone and connect at 7.25PM (GMT+1) to the meeting number 3210554238. (https://zoom.us/j/3210554238)
Join us for an online performance.
lisaparra reblogged
node--body
September 30th, 2017
time-lapse of original livestream [here]
Hosted by the 9to5.tv project (Atlanta, Georgia - US), node–body is a live networked movement choir. Based on the choreographic model of Rudolf Laban’s movement choirs a mesh network is created, through an online platform and, by the dancers joining in from remote locations, exchanging movement information between them and resulting on a visual landscape where patterns emerge from a continuous communication.
A project by Lisa Parra, Olivia Jack and Daniel Pinheiro
With Emma Rose Brown, Juana del Mar and Isabel Costa
Locations: New York (US), Bogotá (Colombia), Porto (Portugal), Atlanta, Georgia (US)
9to5 is a month-long art exhibition in Atlanta that dissolves the boundary between artist and audience by way of an experimental live streams.
Node-Body, 9to5.tv Septiembre 30, 2017. A collaboration by Lisa Parra, Olivia Jack and Daniel Pinheiro. Performed by Emma R Brown (NY), Juana del Mar (Bogotá) and Isabel Costa (Porto).
Today at 3pm (ET) on 9to5.tv
I am very honored to be 2017 Mertz Gilmore Foundation Artists-in-Residence.
Sabor a mi... A solo by Lisa Parra in collaboration with DJ artist Roseli Martinez of Chulita Vinyl Club (Los Angeles, CA) and media artist Daniel Pinheiro.
This Sunday June 11th at 12pm at University Settlement, New York, NY.
#performancemix31 #dance