Photo by Peter Raper
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JENNIFER NUGENTup against
Bodies In Motion, 2020 Take class with Jen via @freeskewl "My practice is fueled by physical and metaphysical relationships. My artistry is my practice as a parent, a partner, a friend, and a human. I want to move, and be moved by information that is not coming from myself alone. When I am embedded inside collaboration or an exchange with an audience, I experience intimacy, directness, and the honesty that comes from not being able to hide. This exchange propels me to constantly shift and change, wanting to assert myself, while experiencing destabilizing sensations of clarity and confusion. I am committed to the pursuit of relentless awareness of who I am, who I am not, and how I relate to others. I want to share and listen. I also wonder about existence, pause, process, and individuation within performance and teaching. I want my dancing to lead me towards uncharted and indeterminate spaces. When I dance I feel both powerful and lost. The intellectual and physical rigor of dance continues to present me with a sense of humility, a play of transmission between listening and doing. Within my work, I connect with myself through a process of being both a dancer and a feeling/desiring/living being who becomes revealed through the practice of performance. Performance has the ability to capture who I am and reveal this information to me, in the exact moment that it is happening; it is an exquisite sensation, and for this I am grateful." |
Every evening at 7pm my neighbors and people all over the city go to their windows to clap, scream, hoot, and cheer for the doctors and nurses ( in the process of their shift change) taking care of the so many people infected by the Coronavirus. Every time I do this ritual I have an experience of ensemble, a more than one, a larger than. It feels hopeful, melancholy, it is a release from the day, and a way for me and my family to gather for those few minutes and be in a kind of solidarity with so many and each other. We see each other. We use our vocal sounds. Sometimes it is cathartic and sometimes funny, even vulnerable.
I am trying to practice pause, gratitude, and patience. Or ….I am trying to remember to practice pause, gratitude, and patience :)
I am in thought I am not in production I am in process and imperfection
I am fortunately and unfortunately very real- is there a choice?"
JEN NUGENT:
Originally from South Florida, I now reside in Brooklyn, NY. I have been performing since age sixteen, most notably with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2014 and David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007. My practices are profoundly inspired by Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Patty Townsend, and an ongoing collaboration with Paul Matteson. Currently I am working on a new solo project, Up Against, which uses dance (steps, improvisation, shape, and gesture) as a way to articulate my curiosities and allow the vibration and energies that surface within the process of being in the studio to reverberate inside the performance. Recently I was an artist in residence at the Bodies in Motion Festival supported by A.P.E.@Hawley and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. I am a teaching artist at Gibney Dance NYC, Movement Research NYC, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College, NY.
I am trying to practice pause, gratitude, and patience. Or ….I am trying to remember to practice pause, gratitude, and patience :)
I am in thought I am not in production I am in process and imperfection
I am fortunately and unfortunately very real- is there a choice?"
JEN NUGENT:
Originally from South Florida, I now reside in Brooklyn, NY. I have been performing since age sixteen, most notably with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company from 2009-2014 and David Dorfman Dance from 1999-2007. My practices are profoundly inspired by Daniel Lepkoff, Wendell Beavers, Patty Townsend, and an ongoing collaboration with Paul Matteson. Currently I am working on a new solo project, Up Against, which uses dance (steps, improvisation, shape, and gesture) as a way to articulate my curiosities and allow the vibration and energies that surface within the process of being in the studio to reverberate inside the performance. Recently I was an artist in residence at the Bodies in Motion Festival supported by A.P.E.@Hawley and the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. I am a teaching artist at Gibney Dance NYC, Movement Research NYC, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Sarah Lawrence College, NY.
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Three excerpts:
1. Note the Self - Work in Progress - American Dance Festival 2017 (in collaboration with Paul Matteson) 2. another piece apart - Premiere - New York Live Arts, NYC 2018 (in collaboration with Paul Matteson) 3. up against - Residency Showing - Bodies in Motion Festival, Northampton, MA 2020 |
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