Sustainable Dance Ecology

The curators for the Movement Research Spring Festival 2009: ROLL CALL, in collaboration with SUPERFRONT, invite you to participate in an idea competition to design a “Sustainable Dance Ecology” at The New York City Farm Colony on Staten Island.  Architectural plans, business models, videos, animations, writings, and drawings are all welcome in this competition.  A jury of architects, urban planners, and performing artists will select winning entries to exhibit at Common Room 2.  Common Room 2, located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, displays works and projects engaging the community in a dialogue about the structures of the built environment: including social, economic, and political structures.  All entries will be displayed on www.sustainable-dance.org.

THE CHALLENGE:
Take the existing New York City Farm Colony on Staten Island and create a sustainable dance ecology.  A sustainable dance ecology is a place where artists interested in movement can go to explore an idea, refine a performance, add production elements such as sets, lighting, sound, and video to their process, and share their experience with other artists.  Help generate ideas on how this dance community could be artistically, environmentally, and financially stable - possibly including, but not limited to, performance space, rehearsal studios, gallery space, housing, food, farming, community rooms, libraries, media labs, bodywork studios, child care, classes, wood and metal shops, silk screening, sculpture or other visual art studios, administrative offices, and storage. 

VISIT www.sustainable-dance.org FOR FULL CONTEST DETAILS