Modern Garage Movement: 2005-2011
Performance Studies alum Biba Bell (M.A. '07, Ph.D. '15) has published a new book called Modern Garage Movement: 2005-2011.
This book is an offering and weaves together MGM's facets during this seven year period and the dancers, musicians, and artists who came together to make it happen. Making this book was a labor of love and these performance writings and images trace archive journeying, memory work, collective sharing, and holding difference throughout the process. Some themes running through: diy ethos and aesthetics, collective practice, sustainable performance and touring models, nomadic choreographies, performance herstories, architectures of/for participation, dancers writing and writing dancing.
Modern Garage Movement (MGM) is the performance collective of Biba Bell, Jmy James Kidd and Paige Martin. Conceived in a one-car garage in San Francisco by Kidd in 2005, MGM takes a single dance and performs it within and across dozens of spaces – mobilizing audience, site, context, and choreography. Dances are made for touring—llama barns, spas, farms, living rooms and attics, backyards, galleries, parks, alleys, stairways, bars, beaches, yoga studios, wineries, packing sheds, museums, theatres, a locker room, grocery store, goddess gift shop, farmer’s market, and of course, garages. The work communes with the sonic, sensorial, and visual materials embedded in the sacred sites all around us. Every performance is an offering and a time for gathering. Dance takes form as craft, thing, way, and bodily experience.
Keep an eye on Biba's website for information about where you can pick up your copy!