In collaboration with the Vize tance organization and Hungary's Workshop Foundation we are pleased to present a very special guest from New York’s Movement Research, one of the world’s leading laboratories for the investigation of dance and movement-based forms.

In this lunch gathering for dance maker and performance professionals, choreographer, dancer and organizer Martita Abril, chosen by the GPS / Global Practice Sharing platform of Movement Research, will exchange ideas, processes and practices in art making and art admin practices for dance- and movement-based forms in the U.S. and in independent performing arts communities internationally. The GPS / Global Practice Sharing program has been focusing on exchange with East and Central Europe and also the Middle East and North Africa. Light lunch/snack foods will be available in buffet style. 

Running time: 60 min+

The meeting will take place in English and is free (please, register by the button "Tickets").

Supported by:

Martita Abril will appear in Prague thanks to MOVEMENT RESEARCH supported by the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund, as part of a GPS/Global Practice Sharing visit to Budapest's Workshop Foundation and Bazaar Festival

Bio

Martita Abril (Pichu) is an artist, curator, and producer from the border city of Tijuana, México. She has collaborated with dance artists and companies including Lux Boreal, Kim Brandt, Yanira Castro, Yoshiko Chuma, Milka Djordevich, Tess Dworman, Devynn Emory, Daria Fain and Robert Kocik, Lily Gold, Allyson Green, Abigail Levine, Mina Nishimura, Cori Olinghouse, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, Will Rawls, David Thompson, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Cathy Weis. Martita was a performer in Simone Forti’s Dance Constructions, the Handles exhibition by Haegue Yang and most recently the Mirrors I & II piece by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art. She was part of the Fresh Tracks Residency, the Dance and Process (DAP) artist in residency program at The Kitchen in partnership with Arts and Letters, and she is currently in The Movement Research (MR) Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by Mertz Gilmore Foundation. She also continues to guide workshops in Bushwick gardens to Spanish speaking familias who recently arrived to NYC, through the iLAND (Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance) program by Jennifer Monson. Martita co-curates In/Between, the annual immigrant artist group exhibition at New York Live Arts in partnership with NYFA’s Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program originally created in 2019 by Yanira Castro, Martita, and Poppy DeltaDawn. She is currently the Director of the Movement Research at the Judson Church Program, the Trisha Brown Dance Company’s Tour Company Manager, continues to mentor Immigrant artists as part of the NYFA Coaching program, and is part of the NYFA’s Artist Advisory Committee.