Momentum In-At-Around-On Arena Dia Beacon (traces)

https://www.diaart.org/program/calendar/momentum-performance-10252024#

For the duration of Rita McBride: Arena Momentum at Dia Beacon, an expanding body of artists, performers, writers, musicians, and dancers activates physical and virtual spaces as part of a series of engagements with McBride’s Arena (1997). The activations are guided by the conceptual parameters of Arena’s copyleft license (ɔ); the digital files of Arena are freely available to the public in accordance with this license.

Momentum was initiated by Rita McBride, choreographer Alexandra Waierstall, and Discoteca Flaming Star; it started in September 2022 and will end in spring 2025

Momentum is among other things choreographic interludes developed over time by Alexandra Waierstall in close collaboration with dancers from around the world and interactions (they draw, move, make music and write) from the Berlin studio of DFS (CGB, Sofia Lomba, Michael Mahalchick, WM and Sara Pereira)

From October 25 to 27, 2024 Momentum continued with live performances by discoteca flaming star (DFS) with Michael Mahalchick. The all-encompassing multimedia performances brought together elements of sound and movement from previous Momentum engagements, while presenting live drawing taking place at Dia Beacon and streaming from DFS’s Berlin studio, simultaneously. Interspersed throughout this iteration of Momentum, subtitled Momentum:synthesize.r, were choreographic interludes developed by Alexandra Waierstall in close collaboration with dancers from around the world and performed here by Rachel Gill.

A live stream featured an intimate, firsthand perspective of Momentum from discoteca flaming star (DFS) while they perform at Dia Beacon.

DFS members for Momentum:synthesize.r were CGB, Sofia Lomba, WM, and Sara Pereira, joined by Wilder Alison, Peter Cramer, Urania Fasoulidou, Karolina Szymura, Jack Waters, Glen Rubsamen and Jenny Perlin.