The 2nd Austin Dance Improvisation Festival (ADIF) is happening February 21st-23rd (Thursday-Saturday) at The High Road on Dawson. Inspired by the Texas Dance Improvisation Festival (TDIF) and the desire to bring our diverse community of AUSTIN dancers together to explore, share and celebrate, ADIF is about developing our definition, awareness and skills of IMPROVISATION in the field of dance as art, dance as personal practice, dance as healing and dance as community/relational development.

Lower Left's Nina Martin and Margaret Paek along with composers Loren Kiyoshi Dempster and Paul Hunt will be leading the centerpiece to the festival on Friday night and Saturday.

Pre-registration here for the entire ADIF 2019
from Thursday - Sunday, Feb 21- 24th
$200
More info here.

Dr. Nina Martin and Shelley Senter are pioneering dance artists that will be in Appleton as part of Lawrence University's Dance Series! LU dance professor, Margaret Paek, will join them. All three are Lower Left artists.
Nina Martin, Margaret Paek, and Shelley Senter periodically come
together to move, shape, and share their combined experiences.
This work is one iteration of their collaborative process.

We are the materials at hand and our different streams of knowledge intertwine to create new visions. Documenting a moment in our twenty-plus year collaboration, we excavate, reflect, refract, and recollect our individual and collective histories.

Monday, Feb 18th 2019
6:00pm *note the early time
free
Esch dance studio
Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI
More info here.

DANCE RANCH MARFA is a rigorous investigation of the relationship between the self and the group in an art-making context. The workshop is intended to provide dedicated spaces for collective/individual learning and exploration. We use this time in Marfa to work, investigate, and collectively widen compositional, sensorial, and performance skills. Dance Ranch is a program of Lower Left, presented by Marfa Live Arts.
Using Ensemble Thinking, Re:Wire-Dancing States, and Contact Improvisation as points of departure, we will investigate the intra-relationships of the solo body, the weighted body and the ensemble. The days consist of two 3-hour blocks of time in the studio and the theater. There will be a day off midway through the intensive to enjoy the town and the sky. Towards the end of the week there will be a performance in the Crowley Theater, open to the Marfa community.
Lower Left Performance Collective is known for collaboratively working across multiple time zones, multiple genres and media. In current times, we find much importance in fostering our cooperative and individual powers for self-determination.
This year’s facilitators in Marfa: Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, Margaret Paek, and Kelly Dalrymple-Wass
July 17-26, 2018
$500 Registration – $450 if paid in full by April 1st. (no foolin’!)
$100 deposit
remainder due by July 17th
more details here
or here
Marfa, TX

DANCE RANCH MARFA is a five day workshop, created and led by Lower Left, intended to provide dedicated spaces, performances, and practice periods for collective and individual learning and exploration. We integrate Ensemble Thinking, ReWire-Dancing States, and other dance making techniques, including Contact Improvisation, during DANCE RANCH MARFA. We use this time in Marfa to work, play, wonder, and collectively widen compositional and performative skills. During the intensive, we workshop together several hours a day, rest as needed, enjoy down time and the sky, and end the week with a performance offering to the Marfa community.
Lower Left is known for collaboratively working across muliple time zones and communities to reach lots of different kinds of goals we find to be important. In current times, we find much importance in fostering our cooperative and individual power to move.
This year's facilitators in Marfa: Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, Leslie Scates and Margaret Paek
more info here or here
Aug 3-7, 2017
Cost - $300 Registration -
$100 deposit
$200 remainder due by Aug 3
Crowley Theater
Marfa, TX

Lower Left will be facilitating this workshop in Berlin, Germany. Accessing the body’s deep intelligence, we learn to intuit the body’s desires while developing a facile brain, releasing us from habitual patterns. We will work consciously along a continuum that encompasses a kinetic body state and neuro brain state. The kinetic enhances our emergent desires for movement and the neuro allows us to dance the brain and bypass the “Mind”. By mixing the kinetic and neuro states with Contact Improvisation, we will achieve clarity, speed, and precision allowing us to intentionally operate between flow and suspension.
more info about the Tanzfabrik summer schedule here
Including a performance at Uferstudios. more info here
July 17-21, 2017
Tanzfabrik
Berlin, Germany

Links Hall generously providing a creative residency for Dahlia Nayar, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, and Margaret to begin work on their next collaboration.

Looking for diverse modern dance experience, or simply a chance to take (post) modern dance? This is a class of an 8-week series (June 16-August 4). Take a class from a different local dance professional each week, and explore the various techniques of modern dance. This is the adult series for ages 16-95 years old.
Margaret teaches the second class in the series.
more info here
Friday, June 23, 2017
5:00-6:30pm
$8 drop in
Valley Academy for the Arts
Neenah, WI

In The Rabbit, Lawrence University's pop-up art gallery, several student groups will bring dance to College Avenue. This year, students will perform a Contact Improvisation "Round Robin" alongside the artworks. Directed by Margaret Paek.
more info here or here
Saturday, June 3, 2017
4:00-5:30pm
free
The Rabbit Gallery 2017
downtown Appleton, WI

HYPERLOCAL is Milwaukee’s hothouse for improvisation and interdisciplinary performance. Formed and presented by dance artist, Maria Gillespie and musician/composer, Tim Russell, Hyperlocal and the collaborating artists share the mission to create an active environment for local performing artists to research, to experiment, to invent, and to share moving and music with their community. Interdisciplinary and experimental at heart, the artist gather to promote local performance as a vital centrifuge for cultural individuation that is in conversation with the world.
The prompt “Easement” leads the performers through an investigation that examines how we enter, inhabit, and occupy a landscape (micro and macro) without possessing it. The inquiry where habitat, nature, and memory interupt each other is ushered in by the work of artist Cecelia Condit whose exhibition, Women, Nature, Science: Tales of a Future Past is showing in the Lynden gallery.
more info here or here
Sunday, May 14, 2017
3:00pm
Lynden Sculpture Garden
Milwaukee, WI

Come play, dance, and make music!
This improvisational movement and music jam is open to everyone. A participatory event. To start, there will be a brief physical warm up to the space and each other led by Margaret Paek and/or guest artists.
You decide how you participate in a jam space. You may make sound/music, you may dance, you may bring an instrument, you may watch... but don't be surprised if you get pulled in to dance/sound. You can come and go as you please.
Sunday, Jan 29, 2017 - 6:15-8:00pm info here
Sunday, Feb 26, 2017 - 6:00-7:30pm info here
Sunday, April 2, 2017 - 6:00-7:30pm info here
Sunday, April 30, 2017 - 6:00-7:30pm - info here
free
in Esch Studio
Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

Food for Thought is a program of Danspace at St. Mark's Church in New York City. Food for Thought is three nights of performance selected by a different guest artist curator each night. Canned goods collected through Food for Thought are donated to St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery food distribution programs.
March 25th is curated by Nami Yamamoto with the theme: "growing, blooming, aging, decaying and going back to the earth, then where are we going now…"
"Resident Artists: Re-Assembled" - a iteration of "Resident Artists: Assembled" five years after the first version will be included in the night. Performers who were originally toddlers are now children, parents are a little bit wiser, and there is one new addition to the cast. Current cast: Margaret Paek, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Dahlia Nayar, Ruth and Thomas Butler, Roz LeBlanc Loo, Matteo Loo, Tami Stronach, Maya Steinbrunner Stronach, Lanette Costas Stampley, Ayana and Isaiah Stampley.
more info here
Saturday, March 25, 2017
8:00pm
$10 or $5 and 2 cans of food
Danspace Project
at St. Mark's Church
10th and 2nd
NYC, NY

HYPERLOCAL is Milwaukee’s hothouse for improvisation and interdisciplinary performance. Formed and presented by dance artist, Maria Gillespie and musician/composer, Tim Russell, Hyperlocal and the collaborating artists share the mission to create an active environment for local performing artists to research, to experiment, to invent, and to share moving and music with their community. Interdisciplinary and experimental at heart, the artist gather to promote local performance as a vital centrifuge for cultural individuation that is in conversation with the world.
HYPERLOCAL #12, in the Villa Terra Decorative Arts Museum, holds special significance because the Milwaukee based artists are working with and alongside the exhibition at Villa Terrace, Ornate Activate, organized by South Asian Women’s Creative Collective (SAWCC) and curated by Alexander Campos. Additionally, they have included some new performers, extending our collaborations with guest performers from UW Whitewater (Nick Zoulek), Lawrence University (Margaret Paek, Loren Dempter), UW Madison (Liz Sexe), and UWM Peck School students (Emily Bartsch, Chanteé Kelly, Kayla Flentje, Olivia Valenza, Talli Moss) and our local dance heroines Joelle Worm (UWM dance and Arts Eco) and Maggie Smith (UWM alumna). Different performers will work in specific galleries in the museum and engage with the artists’ work; aligning with, conversing with, holding space, and echoing the patterns and practices in embodied, time-based methods of inquiry. Each collaborative pair or team has created their own score based on the work in the gallery.
more info here
Sunday, Feb 26, 2017
6:00 pm
Villa Terra Decorative Arts Museum
Milwaukee, WI

A collaboration with Margaret, choreographer Dahlia Nayar, and composer Loren Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", will be performed in the Redfern Arts Center. The installation version of "2125 Stanley Street" will also be presented in this gallery. Margaret, Dahlia, and Loren will also be teaching workshops for Keene State College students while in residency here.
The presentation of 2125 Stanley Street was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
more info here
Feb 9-11, 2017
7:00pm on 9th & 10th, 2pm on 11th
$10-8, $5 KSC students
Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery
Redfern Arts Center
Keene State College
Keene, NH

Mazopalooza is a Contact Improvisation weekend in Mazomanie, WI held every January. This year, Margaret will teach "Let's Dance: Improvising with Contact" on Saturday. K.J. Holmes will be the featured artist.
more details and registration here
Jan 6-8, 2017
Mazomanie, WI

Lower Left artists converge in Appleton, Wisconsin to teach and perform at Lawrence University. Formed in 1994 in San Diego, Lower Left is a collaborative group of dance artists, educators, creators, and performers. For this special performance, members from Berlin, Texas, and New York re-assemble with Margaret Paek, Lawrence dance professor. Utilizing signature improvisational, compositional, and ensemble techniques, Available Space will be an evening of spontaneously create dances. Surprise guest artists from the community will join them for part of the performance. Lower Left will offer the audience ways to view and appreciate bodies in motion crafting the space. Don’t miss this extraordinary performance of dance-making in action.
Friday, Oct 28, 2016
5:00 pm
free
Esch Studio
Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

GLACIER (Great Lakes Area Contact Improvisation Enthusiasts Retreat) is an annual Contact Improvisation retreat organized and taught by local practitioners. GLACIER welcomes a group of about 50 participants to the Christine Center. We sink into the joy of dancing together with other members of our far-flung contact improvisation tribe. It is a time to rejuvenate our creative spirits and relax into our bodies. While dancers of all levels are welcome to attend the event, participants should have a basic CI skill set. Our time together encourages connections and re-connections. Margaret will teach a session during the retreat.
Oct 7-12, 2016
more details here
The Christine Center
Willard, WI

A collaboration with Margaret, choreographer Dahlia Nayar, and composer Loren Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", is featured in the A-Squared Festival at Links Hall in Chicago. Curated by Hope Kim, Cary Shoda, and Giau Truong and presented by Links Hall and The A-Squared Theatre, The A-Squared Asian American Performing Arts Festival features four evenings of contemporary dance, music, performance art, puppetry, sound art, spoken word, and theatre by American artists of Chinese, Filipino, Indian, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese descent.
The presentation of 2125 Stanley Street was made possible by the New England Foundation for the Arts' National Dance Project, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional support from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tickets here.
Thurs Oct 20 & Fri Oct 21, 2016
7:00 pm
$15 students/seniors, $20 general, $40 for festival pass
Links Hall
3111 N. Western Ave
Chicago, IL

HYPERLOCAL is Milwaukee’s hothouse for improvisation and interdisciplinary performance. For #10, musicians Allen Russell, Pat Reinholtz, David Collins, and Tim Russell come together with dancers Margaret Paek, Dan Schuchart, Maria Gillespie, and Dani Kuepper to perform as part of the first Milwaukee Fringe Festival.
Formed and presented by Gillespie and Russell, Hyperlocal and the collaborating artists share the mission to create an active environment for local performing artists to research, to experiment, to invent, and to share moving and music with their community. Interdisciplinary and experimental at heart, the artist gather to promote local performance as a vital centrifuge for cultural individuation that is in conversation with the world.
Tickets for the Milwaukee Fringe Festival are now available! You can purchase single show tickets, one day passes for Saturday and/or Sunday, or a two-day all inclusive pass.
Tickets are here.
More info here.
Sunday, Aug 28, 2016
6:30 pm
Todd Wehr Theater at The Marcus Center
Milwaukee, WI

Lower Left artists teach "The Big Picture: Dance Improvisation in Performance." Ponderosa Movement & Discovery hosts this workshop as part of it's Performance Module of P.O.R.C.H. (Ponderosa Ongoing Research Collaborative Happenings) Taught by Nina Martin, Andrew Wass, and Margaret Paek, we focus on Articulating the Solo Body, Contact Improvisation, and Ensemble Thinking. Join us in Germany for a week of intensive dance training.
Registration and more info here.
Aug 13-17, 2016
Ponderosa Movement & Discovery
Gutshof 3
16248 Lunow-Stolzenhagen
Germany

Earthdance's annual event is co-facilitated by Rythea Lee and Margaret this year. Summer is on high during this family-oriented Contact Improvisation Jam. Enjoy brilliant sunshine, grassy fields, fun and games, and dances of all shapes ans sizes. Revel in the bounty and beauty of 30 years of Earthdance community collaboration!
Options for half week or full week attendance.
Registration and more info here.
June 28-July 4, 2016
Earthdance
Plainfield, MA

At Nancy Hughes' invitation, Margaret will be teaching the regular Buffalo Contact Improvisation community class. Class leads directly into an open jam.
Sunday, June 26, 2016
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm class
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm jam
$5 for class
$5 for jam
$8 for class and jam
Wasteland Studios
700 Main St. 6th floor
Buffalo, NY

In The Rabbit, Lawrence University's pop-up art gallery, several student groups will bring dance to College Avenue.
Performances will include:
"After Construction" composition by Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, performed by Musicians in Movement (Albert Marshall, Cameron Murdock, Camille Dozier, Irene Durbak, Jon Hanrahan, Tierra Masupha.)
"low solo" by Camille Dozier and special guests
"You Come, We'll Show You What We Do... Redo" by More Contact Improvisation class (some or more of the following dancers - Sophie Penniman, Micayla Hutton, Abigail Hindson, Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall, Caleb Rosenthal, Yossi Lipton, Kenneth Herrera, Cansu Cabucak, Hannah Jeruc, Gillian Etherington, Paul Gutmann, Sam Stone, Stephon Berry, Madeleine Moran)
Directed by Margaret Paek
More info here.
Saturday, May 28, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
free
The Rabbit Gallery 2016
215 E College Ave
Appleton, WI

Uncucumbered is a dance collective consisting of Bradley Teal Ellis, Melissa Guerrero, Elise Knudson, Margaret Paek, Paul Singh, with musician, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster. Though we have known each other for over one hundred years, we come together in this formation for the first time. With a range of limitations that support our connections and our physical conversations, we will navigate the unknown together in this performance of "Weather Systems Make No Mistakes."
More info here.
Thursday, April 14, 2016
7:30 pm
free
Esch Studio
Warch Campus Center
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

Gabriel Forestieri (projectLIMB) visits Lawrence University to work with Margaret, Loren Dempster, Matt Turner, other special guest artist LU students in the new work, "Atria." Atria are designed to connect inside and out. Giving views of the exterior environment while providing shelter from the elements. This work is a celebration of the desire to bring the outside inside and allow the inside to live outside.
More info here.
Tues, March 29, 2016
6:00 pm
free
Science Hall Atrium
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

"Secondary Surface: Rendered" is a performance installation that moves the audience through space, leaving traces of the ephemeral in charcoal and paper. Originally conceived by Lower Left performance collective, Margaret directs these Lawrence students in kinetic explorations of physical scores traveling through the Wriston Art Galleries.
Performed by: Kenneth Herrera, Becca Tapia, Camille Dozier, Abigail Hindson, Gil Etherington, Laetitia Lehman-Pearsall, and Micayla Hutton.
Music created and performed by: Loren Kiyoshi Dempster
Friday, March 4, 2016
8:00 pm
free
Wriston Galleries
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

IGLU (Improvisation Group Lawrence University) crafts sound and movement into ensemble pieces in this concert, directed by Matt Turner and Margaret Paek.
Wednesday, February 24, 2016
7:00 pm
free
Wriston Gallery
Lawrence University
Appleton, WI

This symposium hosted by NYU Tisch School of the Arts will bring together diverse disciplinary perspectives to examine concepts of ensemble, improvisation and choreography; to generate new thinking and language around collective performance; and to initiate conversation across the spectrum of ensemble practices. Margaret is on the planning committee as well as will participate in Form in Question.
More info here.
Jan 14-17, 2016
free with registration
111 2nd Ave,
NYC, NY

Lawrence University groups IGLU and Opera studies collaborate on these improvisational micro-operas based on text gathered from the Appleton community. An evening of all-inclusive, interactive performances celebrating unity. Expressions of Acceptance will be dispersed throughout spaces of the Fox Cities Performing Arts Center. Created by the performers; coached by Copeland Woodruff, Matt Turner, and Margaret Paek.
Monday, November 2, 2015
7:00 pm - Journey for Community - a pre-show community promenade from Lawrence University to the PAC.
7:30 pm - show starts at PAC
free
Fox Cities Performing Arts Center
Appleton, WI

Margaret will perform in The Impermanent Society of Philadelphia (ISOP) NowHere Festival of Free Improvisation in Sound and Movement at Mascher Space, Philadelphia. Dedicated to promoting the Free Improvisation art forms, the festival includes world-class movement and sound artists from across the US.
More info here.
Oct 19-25, 2015
Mascher Space
155 Cecil B Moore Ave
Philadelphia, PA

Margaret, Dahlia Nayar, and Loren Dempster are in residence with the Vermont Performance Lab, adapting "2125 Stanley Street" for the Dianich Gallery. VPL's Progressive Performance Festival is made possible with funding support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts, the Vermont Arts Council, the Samara Fund, and VPL's Creation Fund donors, and media sponsorship from The Commons. Also part of the festival are The Round by Projet In Situ and Schwanze-Beast by Carmelita Tropicana & Ela Troyano.
More information here.
Sept 4-6, 2015
Fri 5:30-6:30pm
Sat & Sun 12:00-5:00pm
free
Dianich Gallery
139 Main Street
Brattleboro, VT

Presented by Marfa Live Arts with support from the Crowley Theater and the Permian Basin Area Foundation, Lower Left performs its newest work throughout the theater. Secondary Surface: Rendered juxtaposes the human form with materials traditionally used in the visual arts, blurring the boundaries between dance and static art forms. Moving away from the constraints of the standard proscenium setting, Lower Left invites the audience to curate its own experience as it follows the action of the performance installations. In collaboration with composer Loren Dempster and visual artist Gretchen Lee Coles.
Fri & Sat, Aug. 14 & 15, 2015
7:30 pm
free, donations accepted
Crowley Theater
Marfa, TX

Lower Left shares works in progress with the Marfa community. Collaborative works by Leslie Scates, Andrew Wass, and Clara Diesen included. Supported by Marfa Live Arts, the Crowley Theater, and the Permian Basin Area Foundation.
Sunday, Aug. 9, 2015
7:00 pm
free
Crowley Theater
Marfa, TX

Presented by the Midland Library and Marfa Live Arts, Lower Left performs for the Midland community at the Farmer's Market at the Museum of the Southwest. In collaboration with Loren Dempster.
Saturday, Aug. 1, 2015
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
free
Museum of the Southwest
1705 W Missouri Ave
Midland, TX

Presented by the Midland Library and Marfa Live Arts, Lower Left performs its newest work through the Kamiposi Gallery. Secondary Surface Rendered juxtaposes the human form with materials traditionally used in the visual arts, blurring the boundaries between dance and static art forms. Moving away from the constraints of the standard proscenium setting, Lower Left invites the audience to curate its own experience as it follows the action of the performance installations. In collaboration with Loren Dempster.
Friday, July 31, 2015
7:30 pm
$10 cash or check at door
Kamiposi Gallery
510 S Big Spring St
Midland, TX

Lower Left teaches an Ensemble Thinking class for teens and community members at the Hispanic Cultural Center.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
6:00 pm
free
Hispanic Cultural Center
1311 E Wadley and Sibley Circle
Midland, TX

Lower Left teaches and performs for the senior citizens living at the Polo Park Estates in Midland, TX.
Thursday, July 30, 2015
10:30 am
Midland, TX

At Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, several experienced movers gather for dance research in collaborative, performative, improvisational movement. Fabulous people include: Elise Knudson, Shura Baryshnikov, Sarah Konner, Keira Mason-Hill, Marion Ramirez, JungWoong Kim, Olase Freeman, and Stephanie Turner.

"2125 Stanley Street" was selected by Down East Magazine for its 2015 Best of Stage and Screen category: "In April, The Dance Hall in Kittery hosted Maine’s most compelling recent dance performance. Dancers in Dahlia Nayar’s 2125 Stanley Street gorgeously explore domesticity and notions of home using mops, laundry, and other domestic props in beautiful and unexpected ways..." Our thanks again to Drika Overton and The Dance Hall for hosting us.

A collaboration with Margaret, choreographer Dahlia Nayar, and composer Loren Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", comes to home to Woodside, Queens, NY. This performance is made possible, in part, by TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. with support from NYS DanceForce with funds from NYSCA Dance Program.
more info here.
Saturday, June 6, 2015
6:30 pm
free
Topaz Arts, Inc.
55-03 39th Ave
Woodside, NY

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of May.
Wednesdays- May 6, ,13, 20 & 27th
6:30-8:30pm
$14 or class card
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

A collaboration with Margaret, choreographer Dahlia Nayar, and composer Loren Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", performance at the Dance Hall in Kittery, Maine. Reserve tickets here. Funded in part by New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.
Saturday, April 11, 2015
7:30pm
$16 in advance, $20 at the door
7 Walker St
Kittery, ME

A collaboration with Margaret, choreographer Dahlia Nayar, and composer Loren Dempster, "2125 Stanley Street", comes to Amherst College. Presented by Copeland Colloqium.
Tuesday, April 7, 2015
8:00 pm
Webster Hall Studio 2
Free and open to the public
Limited seating.
UPDATE - This event has sold out.

Lower Left artists, Margaret, Nina Martin, Shelley Senter, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, and Leslie Scates teach a special workshop on Ensemble Thinking for Tisch NYU senior students in the Second Avenue Dance Company.
Tues, Feb 10, 2015
for NYU Tisch students only

As part of the Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices series, Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation foundational class during the month of Oct. Feb 19 co-taught with Sarah Konner; Feb 26 taught by Sarah Konner.
Thursdays - Feb 5, 12, 19 & 26
6:00-8:30pm $14
MR class cards not applicable.
Movement Research at Gibney Dance downtown
280 Broadway, NYC

Margaret moderates Movement Research's work-in-process performance series. Artists this week include: Dance To The People, Sarah Weber Gallo, Marsha Parrilla/Danza Orgánica.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
7:00pm
free
Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th Floor, NYC

THROW is a performance-development series curated and moderated by Sarah Maxfield. Margaret is performing work-in-progress with Dahlia Nayar; other featured artists are - Malcolm Low, Tiny Little Band, Emily Wexler, Katie Rose McLaughlin, Billy Mullaney and Emily Gastineau.
Tuesday, December 16th, 2014
7pm, free
Chocolate Factory
5-49 49th Avenue
Long Island City, NY

Margaret will perform with Shelley Senter and guests, including music by Russ Alderson. As a BAX Fall Space Grant recipient, Shelley Senter's new work will be presented, along with work from Rebecca Patek, Kirya Traber, and Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble.
Saturday, December 6th, 2014 at 8pm
and
Sunday, December 7th, 2014 at 6pm
General $16, low income $10
BAX (Brooklyn Arts eXchange)
421 Fifth Ave
Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY

Margaret and Shelley Senter dance together in "An Adaptation of Matter." Fridays at Noon is a program of dance performances with post-show discussions, this series curated by Joanna Kotze. Also performing - Leah Cox and Sarah Lifson.
Friday, Nov 21st, 2014
noon, free
92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave, NYC

Margaret and Elise Knudson research a new duet. Come see this works in progress showing with audience feedback, moderated by Jeanine Durning. Also showing work - Laura Lamp.
Movement Research's Open Performance
Tuesday, November 18th, 2014
7pm
suggested $3 donation
at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, NYC

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of November.
Wednesdays- Nov 5th, 12th & 19th. (no class Nov 26th)
6:00-8:30pm $14 or class card
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

As part of the Physical Inquiry & Somatic Practices series, Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation foundational class during the month of Oct.
Thursdays - Oct 2nd, 9th, 16th, 23rd & 30th.
6:00-8:30pm $14
MR class cards not applicable.
Movement Research at Gibney Dance downtown
280 Broadway, NYC
UPDATE - due to family emergency, Charlie Mosey will be subbing for Margaret on the 16th, 23rd & 30th.

Margaret performs in the H-O-T Series of Philadelphia, a monthly series curated by dance artist Loren Groenendaal and experimental percussionist flandrew fleisenberg that features improvisational dance, music, and other experimental performance from local and touring artists. This episode of the series is also part of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Musicians:
-Jack Wright,
-Bhob Rainey,
-Andrea Pensado,
-Morgan Evans-Weiler,
and flandrew fleisenberg
Dancers/Movers:
-Jung-Woong Kim,
-Marion Ramírez,
-Margaret Paek,
-Asimina Chremos,
-Loren Groenendaal
Wednesday, September 17th, 2014
Doors at 7:30, Performance starts at 8:00pm
|mascher space co-op
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122
$10 at the door, $7 with DancePass|Mascher space co-op|

Preview tour of Margaret's collaboration with choreographer, Dahlia Nayar, and composer, Loren Kiyoshi Dempster, on this evening length work.
tour dates -
Tuesday, August 12th, afternoon at the Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Saturday, August 16th at Nichiren Hokke Buddhist Church, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, August 19th at Linda Austin's Performance Works NW, Portland, OR
Wednesday, August 20th at The Chapel, Seattle, WA
more details HERE
watch trailer HERE
Reserve yours seats in advance by emailing dahlia.nayar@gmail.com

The Big Picture is an intensive performance lab for the experienced performer facilitated by Lower Left. This is an all day performance intensive designed for individuals who are interested in solo body techniques; exploring how that body relates to an ensemble; and unearthing a range of un/conscious potential. It consists of two workshops, a lab, and a workshop showing. The two workshops are available individually. Participation in the lab requires participation in the two workshops also.
Workshop 1 - Articulating the Solo Body - led by Nina Martin and assisted by Kelly Dalrymple-Wass
Workshop 2 - Ensemble Thinking: Compositional Kinetics - led by Leslie Scates and Andrew Wass
Lab 3 - Performance Research Lab (only available for participants of the full intensive) – led by Shelley Senter and Margaret Paek
Monday-Friday, July 21-25th, 20114
10:00 – 12:00 Articulating the Solo Body
12:30 – 15:00 Ensemble Thinking
17:00 – 20:00 Performance Research
Tanzfabrik Berlin
Mockernstr. 68
D-10965 Berlin
Germany
details & prices on Tanzfabrik website

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of May.
Wednesdays- May 7th, 14th, 21st & 28th
6:00-8:30pm $14 or class card
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

Margaret performs in the first anniversary performance in the H-O-T Series of Philadelphia, a monthly series curated by dance artist Loren Groenendaal and experimental percussionist flandrew fleisenberg that features improvisational dance, music, and other experimental performance from local and touring artists.
Musicians:
-Michael Evans, percussion, NYC
-Neil Feather, invented instruments, BMore
-Rosie Langabeer, multi-instrumentalist, PHL
-Adam Vidiksis, PHL
and, more TBA!
Dancers/Movers:
-Joy Davis, MA
-Lee Fogel, PHL
-Susan Hefner, NYC
-Margaret Paek, NYC
-Emile Sorger, PHL
-The Telephone Dance Project (Katie Sopoci Drake, Eliza Larson, Rachel Rugh, Barbara Allie Tait of Mountain Empire)
Saturday, May 10th, 2014
Doors at 7:30, Performance starts at 8:00pm
10:00-11:30 dance, drinks, hang, Color FULL preview
|mascher space co-op
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122
$10 at the door, $5 with DancePass|Mascher space co-op|
155 Cecil B. Moore Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19122
$10 at the door, $5 with DancePass

An excerpt of "2125 Staneley Street," choreography by Dahlia Nayar in collaboration with Margaret and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster in this monthly Pioneer Valley dance work-in-progress series. Workbench performances will be followed by a Q&A lead by local artists, and scholars.
also featuring work by-
Kelly Silliman/the tinydance project
Safi Harriott
Anna Wotring
Saturday, February 15, 2014
8:00pm
Wild Life Sanctuary Studio
221 Pine St., Florence, MA

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of September.
Wednesdays- Sept 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th
6:00-8:30pm $14 or class card
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

Margaret will be performing in two shows for the 20th SFDI -
Dance Innovators in Performance
Thursday, August 1st, 2013, 8 pm, $12
with Lower Left artists- Shelley Senter, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalrymple Wass, Nina Martin, and Leslie Scates
and
the Closing Night Performance
Saturday, August 3rd, 2013, 7 pm, free
with Julie Lebel, June & Leonie, Miriam Colvin, Stuart & Renko Dempster, Loren Dempster & Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Andrew Wass, Kelly Dalrymple Wass & Magdalena Wass, Shelley Senter & Luca Cristo, Nina Martin, Leslie Scates, John, Anna, Ayla & Dakota Dixon.

Margaret was awarded a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the Dance Rehearsal Program of the New York State Council on the ARts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Margaret was one of three recipients this year for this pilot program.

Margaret will be performing in Anna Halprin's "Mirroring Piece" in the Cut/Log NY art fair 2013 at the Clemente, 107 Suffolk St, NYC.

A sharing of "2125 Staneley Street," choreography by Dahlia Nayar in collaboration with Margaret and Loren Kiyoshi Dempster.
Performance is free!
Reservations required:
http://vermontperformancelab.org/events
Optional post-performance dinner catered by Vermonter Cai's Dim Sum Teahouse, details on the website.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
7:00pm
Broad Brook Grange
Guilford Center Road
Guilford, VT

Margaret moderates Movement Research's work-in-process performance series. Artists this week include: Karen Harvey, Kate Kernochan & Lindsay Reuter, Merisha Mesihovic & circuitdebris, and Aya Shibahara.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
8:00pm
free
ART/NY South Oxford Space, in the "Great Room"
138 Oxford Street, Brooklyn, NY
between Atlantic Ave and Fulton St

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of March.
*new day and time:
Wednesdays- March 6th, 13th, 20th & 27th
6:00-8:30pm $14
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

A piece created and performed by Margaret Paek, Loren Dempster, Eleanor Dempster-Paek, Marion Ramirez, Jung Woong Kim, Ari Ramirez-Kim & Minkyong Ji
in this new movement, improvisation, and performance festival presented by Nicole Bindler, Curt Haworth, Mascher Space Coop, Philly PARD, and University of the Arts.
Sunday Jan 20th 6pm
$10/ $8
at Philly PARD
Philadelphia, PA
the evening also includes work by:
-Rebecca Byrant
-Bethany Formica & Megan Mazarick
-Curt Haworth, Maxfield Gast, Zach Svoboda, Leanne Grieger & Mike Pietrusko
-Jenny Sawyer & Lee Fogel
-Jaamil Kosoko

Real-time choreography by Margaret Paek, Rebecca Bryant, Marion Ramirez, Megan Mazarick, Mason Rosenthal, & Loren Dempster (cello)
in this new movement, improvisation, and performance festival presented by Nicole Bindler, Curt Haworth, Mascher Space Coop, Philly PARD, and University of the Arts.
Saturday Jan 19th 8pm
$10/ $8
at Mascher Space Coop
Philadelphia, PA
the evening also includes work by:
-Andy Hayleck & Harmonica Semis
-Bhob Rainey, Curt Haworth & Nicole Bindler
-Katherine Stark & Marion Ramirez
-Manfred Fischbeck and Group Motion Company members (Lindsay Browning, Ellie Goudie-Averill, David Konyk and Hedy Wyland)
-Christina Gesualdi, Annie Wilson & Julius Masri

Featured guest artist, teaching and performing with Rebecca Bryant for this new movement, improvisation, and performance festival presented by Nicole Bindler, Curt Haworth, Mascher Space Coop, Philly PARD, and University of the Arts.
Solo Improvisation in Contact
Mon-Fri, Jan 14-18th
taught by either Paek or Bryant
1-3pm free
Ensemble Thinking
Mon-Fri, Jan 14-18th
co-taught by Paek and Bryant
4-7pm free with showing Friday 6-7pm
both workshops at University of the Arts
1401 Walnut St, Philadelphia, PA

Margaret teaching Movement Research's on-going contact improvisation class during the month of December. Jam following class.
Sundays- Dec 2nd, 9th, 16th
2:30-4:45pm $14
Movement Research at Eden's Expressway
537 Broadway, 4th floor, NYC

Beginning in the fall of 2012, the Vermont Performance Lab will support the development of Dahlia Nayar's new project "2125 Stanley Street." Margaret will collaborate with Dahlia and cellist/composer Loren Kiyoshi Dempster.

As part of Dance New Amsterdam's Modern Guest Artist Series, Margaret will be teaching these three classes.
Saturdays, Nov 17, 24 & Dec 1
3:30-5:30pm $17.50/class
DNA
280 Broadway (entrance on Chambers St.) NYC

Margaret will be performing in Deborah Hay's newest piece - "Blues" at the Museum of Modern Art, NYC.

Dance artists (who happen to also be parents) and their children (any age) are invited to attend either or both of these sessions. Join us for discussion, diversion, and dancing. Let’s foster community, find more ways to support each other, and just spend time together.
Facilitated by Margaret Paek, Adrienne Westwood (Sept 30) & Anna Azrieli (Oct 28)
Hosted by BAX.
Free. Contributions are welcome.

projectLIMB
A dance journey directed and performed by Gabriel Forestieri from dawn to dusk throughout the length of Manhattan.
Loren Dempster, Margaret & Eleanor Dempster-Paek perform with Gabriel at 9:30am on the Highline, beginning at the 14th Street entrance.

The 11th annual international improvisation festival with Lower Left as the guest artists, teaching workshops, labs, and projects in contact improvisation, Ensemble Thinking, and creative research throughout the week.

"AECORIS" AT KONTAKT BUDAPEST - July 2012
Lower Left evening-length collaborative choreography with Andrew Wass, Don Nichols (music,) Kelly Dalrymple-Wass, Nina Martin, Rebecca Bryant, Roma Flowers (video) presented in the 11th annual international improvisation festival, Kontakt Budapest.

At the invitation of singer Alicia Hall Moran and musician/composer Jason Moran to be a part of their residency, Margaret directed this all-star collaboration with performers and their progeny for the 2012 Whitney Museum Biennial.
co/motion performers:
Alicia Hall Moran, Jason Moran, Malcolm and Jonas Moran
Chisa Hidaka
Dahlia Nayar and Ruth Susheela
Emily Moore
Lanette Costas, Nathaniel Stampley, Ayana and Isaiah Stampley
Margaret Paek, Loren Dempster and Eleanor Dempster-Paek
Rosalynde LeBlanc Loo, Rio and Matteo Loo
Rebecca Bryant
Stacy Spence and Alexis Argilla-Spence
Tami Stronach and Maya Steinbruner Stronach
Tracy Nuñez

New York Live Arts presents this series of talks. On a panel with Anna Azrieli, Wendy Blum, Marin Sander-Holzman, co-moderated by Chase Granoff and Marya Warshaw for a conversation about creative families.
April 17th, 7:30pm free
219 W. 19th Street, NYC