Movement Matters
Movement Matters investigates work at the intersection of dance, performance, politics, policy and issues related to the body.
Presenting periodic seasonal symposia series, artist’s roundtables, and performances, Movement Matters is also a dance reporting, criticism and interview series, published first at Sixty Inches From Center and later at Art Intercepts.
Supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities' Illinois Speaks program. Additional program support is provided by Art Intercepts, the Chicago Dancemakers Forum, Links Hall and Audience Architects.
A program of Movement Matters, The Neo-Judson Project: Dance, Performance, Art, Politics & Philosophy and Bridge, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Movement Matters Symposia Series
Many of the symposia have been supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities' Illinois Speaks program.
Symposia and roundtables are archived by topic below.
Check out the evolving collection of new dance for camera, dance docs, dance films and recent symposia series in the Movement Matters Collection at Bridge Video.
Featured Video
The Creative Industrialization of Social Practice
A Movement Matters discourse to discuss the co-optation of social practice approaches to art-making by an encroaching creative industrialization overwhelmingly driven by commercial interests in the art world. Presented at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery on Oct. 29, 2017.
Educational Programming
Fwd:Museums
Produced and edited by the University of Illinois at Chicago Museum and Exhibition Studies graduate students and published by Chicago-based, Bridge Books, Fwd: Museums strives to create a space for challenging, critiquing, and providing alternative modes of thinking and production within and outside of museums.
