Jennifer Monson Bird Brain

Description

Jennifer Monson’s five year dance touring project, Bird Brain, is based on an investigation of the migratory patterns and habits of birds and their biophysical and metaphorical relationship to humans. Employing technological tools including websites, global positioning systems and satellite transmitters, the tours incorporate links among artists, scientific researchers, environmentalists, classrooms, and the general public. Phase I, The Pigeon Project, was completed in early fall of 2000 and premiered at P.S. 122 in New York. In the spring of 2001, Jennifer began Phase II, Bird Brain Tour #1 – Gray Whales. The subsequent phases of the tour, ospreys, geese and ducks, and northern wheateaters, followed in 2002, 2003, and 2004.



Biography

  • Jennifer Monson

    Jennifer Monson has been pursuing an original approach to experimental dance forms in NYC since 1983 when she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College. …

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Project Updates

  • 2001: Bird Brain is performed on 14th Street in New York

  • 2003: Bird Brain is performed at the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival in Prague

  • 2004: Bird Brain is performed at Diverseworks in Houston

  • 2005: Bird Brain is listed as one of the best dances pieces of 2005 by Time Out New York

  • 2006: Choreography for Bird Brain receives Bessie Award

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