https://ursulaeagly.org Ursula Eagly Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:46 +0000 https://ursulaeagly.org en https://ursulaeagly.org/Projects Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:20:53 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Projects Dream Body Body Building 2024 The Nature of Physical Reality 2021 Indescribable Distanced Perception-Stretching Walk 2020 Our Epithelium 2019 Piece with gaps for each other 2016—18 Self Made Man Man Made Land 2013 Group Dynamics and Visual Sensitivity 2011 Excellent Handicap 2010 Fields of Ida 2009 Aaron Mattocks 2009 Smearcase 2008 Garden of Earthly Delights 2007 Nobody Try To Be A Hero 2005 You Are Responsible Forever For What You Tame 2004 Superheavy Western 2003 The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra 2003 <img width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6e1b64a075fd6beeb9459c359e6f0d4599a4694295b87bacd6a8d5f9a1995e64/ursula_eagly_-_dream_body_body_building-360p.gif" data-mid="213526756" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/6e1b64a075fd6beeb9459c359e6f0d4599a4694295b87bacd6a8d5f9a1995e64/ursula_eagly_-_dream_body_body_building-360p.gif" /> <img width="426" height="240" width_o="426" height_o="240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e06ec8b02464d9dfb4e7d622a1e814c8e68a74749bb64940398b342b66edc5a/titleGIF1.gif" data-mid="76883584" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/426/i/1e06ec8b02464d9dfb4e7d622a1e814c8e68a74749bb64940398b342b66edc5a/titleGIF1.gif" /> <img width="300" height="199" width_o="300" height_o="199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7344aca31029249351ea58500aeb5ca1e486efba9f66204c5decb5c0ea952400/AMfront.jpg" data-mid="76883668" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/7344aca31029249351ea58500aeb5ca1e486efba9f66204c5decb5c0ea952400/AMfront.jpg" /> <img width="300" height="199" width_o="300" height_o="199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c315f85179ea32f257fdc011efaa94ba110b9c5098b360de839f93ac048e253e/AM2front.jpg" data-mid="76883667" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/c315f85179ea32f257fdc011efaa94ba110b9c5098b360de839f93ac048e253e/AM2front.jpg" /> <img width="300" height="169" width_o="300" height_o="169" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2dd77309cd46400b3ae77742f0bb4d015846672afa728c9d05c95f57be972d5/titleGIF3.gif" data-mid="76883582" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/d2dd77309cd46400b3ae77742f0bb4d015846672afa728c9d05c95f57be972d5/titleGIF3.gif" /> <img width="300" height="200" width_o="300" height_o="200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6d3bcd8c2e3b191cda537403936f1a114f52750730fe90be10c12e77a86e65a5/GP_Ursula_340thumb.jpg" data-mid="76883666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/6d3bcd8c2e3b191cda537403936f1a114f52750730fe90be10c12e77a86e65a5/GP_Ursula_340thumb.jpg" /> <img width="300" height="195" width_o="300" height_o="195" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/25c5ad4d2deb6f03e1845901064cf833474ed5552fcfc80996b7503a6ceee07c/clean-fish-2thumb.jpg" data-mid="76883665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/25c5ad4d2deb6f03e1845901064cf833474ed5552fcfc80996b7503a6ceee07c/clean-fish-2thumb.jpg" /> var calcTheLinks = function () { var projects = document.querySelectorAll('.project'); var linkgrid = document.querySelector('.link-grid'); while(linkgrid.firstChild) linkgrid.removeChild(linkgrid.firstChild); projects.forEach((element) => { var curLink = element.firstElementChild; var newLink = document.createElement('a'); newLink.href = curLink.href; newLink.style.height = element.scrollHeight + "px"; newLink.style.width = element.scrollWidth + "px"; newLink.style.top = element.offsetTop + "px"; linkgrid.appendChild(newLink); }) } var gridHeight = function(){ var imagegrid = document.querySelector('.image-grid'); var page = imagegrid.closest('.page_content'); imagegrid.style.height = page.clientHeight + "px"; } calcTheLinks(); gridHeight(); window.addEventListener('load', function(){ calcTheLinks(); gridHeight(); }) window.addEventListener('resize', function(){ calcTheLinks(); gridHeight(); }) https://ursulaeagly.org/Biography Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:25:38 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Biography Ursula Eagly is a dance artist whose works are characterized by a “rabbit-hole logic” (NYTimes). Her research considers mirror neuron firing, dreaming, and other actions not conventionally regarded as material for choreography.&nbsp; Ursula has received commissions and presentations from Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Dance New Amsterdam, Mount Tremper Arts, Movement Research at the Judson Church, the New Museum for Contemporary Art, Aunts, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center, P.S. 122, CATCH, The Old American Can Factory, and Ur (New York City); Laboratorio Arte Alameda (Mexico City); Albania Dance Meeting (Durres, Albania); NOT FESTIVAL (Copenhagen); Solo in Azione (Milan); Wherever Whenever Festival (Tokyo); Dramski Theatre, Locomotion Festival, and Makedonska Filharmonija (Skopje, Macedonia); and re:PLAY (Imphal, Manipur). Her work has been honored with grants from the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation’s USArtists International program, DTW's Suitcase Fund, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts’ Emergency Grant Program, the Japan Foundation’s Performing Arts JAPAN Program, the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, and the Queens Council on the Arts, as well as with corporate support from GENELEC. Ursula's work has been sustained through residencies including Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, Explore the Metropolis Choreographer + Composer Residency, Gibney boo koo Residency, Gibney Dance-in-Process Residency, New Amsterdam Artist-in-Residence Program, DTW Studio Series Residency, DTW Fresh Tracks Residency, New Dance Alliance Lift Off, Topaz Arts Solo Flight, and Ur (NYC), Kaatsbaan International Dance Center (Tivoli, NY), International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (Earthdance, MA), AREAL/space for choroegraphic development (Bucharest, Romania), Bunker Production's Stara Elektrarna (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Station Service for Contemporary Dance's Magacin (Belgrade, Serbia), and Seoul Dance Center (Korea). Ursula has sustained multi-year collaborations with the Tulum-based artist Martín Lanz Landazuri, the Kamakura-based composer Kohji Setoh, and the Skopje-based choreographer Iskra Sukarova. As a dancer, she has worked with Kathy Westwater (2006-2010) and Yoshiko Chuma (2006-2024), as well as Laurel Atwell, Rebecca Brooks, Rebecca Davis, Daria Faïn, Juliette Mapp, Julie Mayo, Maho Ogawa, and Christopher Williams. Ursula investigates performance through writing. She has edited the Movement Research Performance Journal (Editor-in-Chief, issues 41 &amp; 42), Critical Correspondence (2010—2011), Danspace Project's e-book series and catalogues PLATFORM 2010: Back to New York City and PLATFORM 2011: Body Madness, 53rd State Press’ inaugural dance pamphlet, and Arts International’s performing arts magazine. As a writer, she has contributed to magazines from Artforum to ARTnews and has been a frequent presence in the Movement Research Performance Journal. Ursula is a multi-faceted member of New York City’s progressive performance world. She has served on the staff of Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, and Movement Research. She was Artistic Advisor for New York Live Arts' Fresh Tracks program (2014-2017) and taught in Dance New Amsterdam's Choreographic Investigation Course and Guest Artist Series. She serves on panels and moderates discussions and things of that sort (Harvard University’s Carpenter Center, Danspace Project’s Living Room Conversations, Gibney Dance's Colleagues in Conversation, SHELTER, etc.) Ursula grew up in Indiana and graduated from Princeton in 1999 with the Francis LeMoyne Page Theater Award for Excellence in Dance and the Class of 1955 Grant for her thesis in dance. After 25 years of being based in New York City, she now lives in Canada within lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. https://ursulaeagly.org/Press Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:26:02 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Press “Every moment matters, even when not much seems to be happening.” New York Times—3/6/2024 “For weeks afterward, friends and colleagues that came to the show were convinced that the piece didn’t finish, and every conversation they had with me was a continuation of it.” Blaze Ferrer, The Chocolate Factory’s Super Hot Blaze ‘Cap—5/8/2020 “Effortlessly elegant, . . . Thoughtful in its looseness, . . .” New York Times—4/8/2017 UNTITLED, Christine Shan Shan Hou—4/13/2017 “A montage of facial expressions feels like a palindrome at the point of turning in on itself.” IDIOM Magazine—4/15/2013 Interview, Time Out New York—3/8/2013 Eva Yaa Asantewaa’s “Playing Favorites . . . of 2011” Group Dynamics and Visual Sensitivity and Ursula’s performance in It listed among the year’s best performances. “Ms. Eagly is one of the few choreographers I can think of whose work actually frightens. She has a tall, unbelievably fluid body (her every joint looks double), a mane of blond hair and, in performance, the gaze of someone only pretending to be human. In Fields of Ida, surrounded by floor and table lamps from her apartment, she hinged and lunged, folding her long limbs in ways they should never be folded. She looked like a creature out of Blake’s fantastical engravings.”The New York Times—10/10/2009 “Ms. Eagly’s darkly humorous, often violent imagination is to be treasured, and cultivated. You want to follow her rabbit-hole logic, even when stymied by it.”The New York Times—1/30/2009 “spooky, languid…strange, bewitching” The New York Times—4/5/2008 “always quirky, fun, disturbing, funny and unexpected”Culturebot—4/2008 “quirky, with a bizarre, dark logic that is mysterious and intriguing” Inquisitive Owl—4/9/2008 Movement Research Critical Correspondence—2006 Retrospective Movement Research Critical Correspondence Interview—4/8/2006 The Village Voice—11/11/2005 The New York Times—8/27/2005 Offoffoff—2003 The New York Times—9/1/2002 https://ursulaeagly.org/Upcoming Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:26:18 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Upcoming &nbsp;&nbsp; JUNE 4, 2026 Collective Imagination at Abrons Arts Center as part of the 40th Edition of Performance Mix Festival MARCH 5 - 9, 2024 Dream Body Body Building at The Chocolate Factory JUNE 22 - 24, 2023 performing in Julie Mayo’s&nbsp;Bluefire Sleepwaking at Roulette Intermedium JUNE 1 - 11, 2023 performing in Yoshiko Chuma’s Shockwave Delay at La Mama Etc MARCH 18, 2023 performing with Cenk Ergün and Cole Blouin at 41 Varick Avenue, Brooklyn FEBRUARY 26 &amp; 28, MARCH 1 &amp; 4, 2023 performing with Yoshiko Chuma at onetwentyeight gallery NOVEMBER 2022 - JANUARY 2023 Artist-in-Residence as part of New Dance Alliance’s LiftOff Residency DECEMBER 9, 2022 roundtable discussion at the Romanian Cultural Institute NOVEMBER 16-29, 2022 performing in Yoshiko Chuma’s Adding Fuel to the Fire&nbsp; OCTOBER 7, 2022 performing in&nbsp;Maho Ogawa’s Japanese Gesture Archive - Tea Ceremony MAY 5 &amp; 6, 2022 The Nature of Physical Reality at&nbsp;AREAL | spațiu pentru dezvoltare coregrafică, Bucharest APRIL - MAY, 2022 Residency at AREAL | spațiu pentru dezvoltare coregrafică, Bucharest DECEMBER 24 &amp; 25, 2021 The Nature of Physical Reality at Wherever Whenever Festival, Tokyo OCTOBER 15 - DECEMBER 18, 2021 The Nature of Physical Reality at&nbsp;Abrons Arts Center SEPTEMBER 16 - 18, 2021 performing in Julie Mayo’s Nerve Show&nbsp; JUNE 13, 2021 performing in&nbsp;Yoshiko Chuma’s Head in the Sand MAY 15, 2021 performing in Yoshiko Chuma’s S M L: Zooma - Dead End MAY 8, 2021 performing in Maho Ogawa’s Minimal Movement Dialogue APRIL 18, 2021 performing in Yoshiko Chuma’s S M L: Zooma - Dead End JANUARY 30, 2021&nbsp; Movement Research [Virtual] Festival: GPS Chats: International Interdisciplanary Artists Consortium OCTOBER 17 &amp; 18, 2020performing in Yoshiko Chuma’s 24-hour Love Story, The School of Hard Knocks at La Mama Etc. &nbsp; AUGUST 23, 2020 Indescribable Distanced Perception-Stretching Walk AUGUST 21, 2020 Moving Arts Lab workshop AUGUST 17-20, 2020 International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium March 7, 2020Sound Sculpture Space Sculpture workshop at The Painted Cloud February 19, 2020performing with Yoshiko Chuma at Haco Gallery February 3, 2020performing with HeJin Jang at Movement Research at the Judson Church July 10, 2019performing with Yoshiko Chuma's My Diary, Secret Journey to Tipping Utopia at Roulette Intermedium May 6—11, 2019Movement Research Global Practice Sharing and Balkan Dance Platform in Vilnius, Lithuania April 11—13, 2019Our Epithelium premieres at Danspace Project April 1—10, 2019Danspace Project Production Residency February 24—March 16, 2019Gibney Dance-in-Process Resident Artist November 30, 2018micro-residency at Danspace Project as part of the Movement Research Festival Fall 2018 September 24, 2018Cudna Suma with Iskra Sukarova and the students of the Cyril &amp; Methodius University Faculty of Music at the Macedonian Philharmonic as part of the Young Open Theatre Festival, Skopje August 18, 2018Piece with gaps for each other at Casa del Lago, Mexico City August 14, 2018Record Release of the Piece with gaps for each other LP, Mexico City https://ursulaeagly.org/The-Forgotten-Fish-Memory-Orchestra Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:46 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/The-Forgotten-Fish-Memory-Orchestra <img width="1715" height="1112" width_o="1715" height_o="1112" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee759d925a16cf1dac45e265901e3bc30fd2a758c0e76ab3e708222d422d5069/clean-fish-2.jpeg" data-mid="76884128" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ee759d925a16cf1dac45e265901e3bc30fd2a758c0e76ab3e708222d422d5069/clean-fish-2.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project The Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra (2003) a solo Spooky, with wobbles and voiceover. PHOTOGRAPH by Anja Hitzenberger https://ursulaeagly.org/Superheavy-Western Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:45 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Superheavy-Western <img width="2333" height="1556" width_o="2333" height_o="1556" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/365dcadae00fb3c57ba00bcad4e2f24aecb726e3e261b557cace42e89094fccd/superheavy-western-2.jpeg" data-mid="76884189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/365dcadae00fb3c57ba00bcad4e2f24aecb726e3e261b557cace42e89094fccd/superheavy-western-2.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project Superheavy Western (2003) with Rebecca Davis A talk lit by an overhead projector. Chemistry in the wild west. WRITING: OFFOFFOFF https://ursulaeagly.org/You-Are-Responsible-Forever-For-What-You-Tame Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:44 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/You-Are-Responsible-Forever-For-What-You-Tame <img width="2850" height="1893" width_o="2850" height_o="1893" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a8c961a66690cd140b9eee7b358540e78c48fe6281cf9f3804891e3c724120ac/Responsible---Steven-Schreiber.jpeg" data-mid="76884210" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a8c961a66690cd140b9eee7b358540e78c48fe6281cf9f3804891e3c724120ac/Responsible---Steven-Schreiber.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project You Are Responsible Forever For What You Tame (2003) with Rebecca Davis, Jessica Morgan, Eleanor Bauer, Abby Harris Fake folk dance, memories of the future, Belgian waffles. A game of “telephone” with the audience. This piece was created with the support of an UrCOUSIN Residency at Ur, your neighborhood dance palace and with two individual artist grants from The Queens Council on the Arts. PHOTOGRAPH by Steven Schreiber https://ursulaeagly.org/Nobody-Try-To-Be-A-Hero Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:43 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Nobody-Try-To-Be-A-Hero <img width="550" height="410" width_o="550" height_o="410" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9d08d31dc6fb909fd996b25c1ab6eff9b699232d00c458f836271dc316f53a42/Nobody-kiss-1.jpeg" data-mid="76884259" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/550/i/9d08d31dc6fb909fd996b25c1ab6eff9b699232d00c458f836271dc316f53a42/Nobody-kiss-1.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project Nobody Try To Be A Hero (2005) with Rebecca Davis, Abby Harris, Jessica Morgan A hostage crisis with cold spaghetti guts and peeled grape eyeballs. WRITING: Critical Correspondence - Interview Critical Correspondence - 2006 Retrospective This piece was developed from a short work commissioned by the Howl Festival and through a work-in-progress residency at The Chocolate Factory. PHOTOGRAPHY by Geoff Shelton <img width="550" height="371" width_o="550" height_o="371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/121931a858c665c84530967cbc1077a1f5aafc3815ead16b0c768074b3358c1f/Nobody-Try-To-Be-A-Hero-pic-2.jpeg" data-mid="76884261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/550/i/121931a858c665c84530967cbc1077a1f5aafc3815ead16b0c768074b3358c1f/Nobody-Try-To-Be-A-Hero-pic-2.jpeg" /> https://ursulaeagly.org/Garden-of-Earthly-Delights Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:41 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Garden-of-Earthly-Delights <img width="600" height="388" width_o="600" height_o="388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9610efdbfed4e2a61fbf356430394b8dc92e7a90854c3201ed1e8aae1c541019/Garden---Photo-Credit-Yi-Chun-Wu.jpeg" data-mid="76884315" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/600/i/9610efdbfed4e2a61fbf356430394b8dc92e7a90854c3201ed1e8aae1c541019/Garden---Photo-Credit-Yi-Chun-Wu.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project Garden of Earthly Delights (2007) with Abby Harris and Jeremy Holmes Introducing reccurring characters. Empathy and disgust at the same time. This piece was created through a Dance Theater Workshop Fresh Tracks Creative Residency, with funding from The Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Family Foundation. PHOTOGRAPHY by Gus Powell <img width="3504" height="2336" width_o="3504" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e38f6e6ea01855b399790ad53b589499093c098a106fa28c5c077032bcb3ffc8/GP_Ursula_264_rt.jpeg" data-mid="76884319" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e38f6e6ea01855b399790ad53b589499093c098a106fa28c5c077032bcb3ffc8/GP_Ursula_264_rt.jpeg" /> <img width="3504" height="2336" width_o="3504" height_o="2336" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/40e6f34c2ca00fffc58f8f6aecf8676bdd3669bd958553e32d5ef43427d0a7fa/GP_Ursula_340.jpeg" data-mid="76884329" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/40e6f34c2ca00fffc58f8f6aecf8676bdd3669bd958553e32d5ef43427d0a7fa/GP_Ursula_340.jpeg" /> https://ursulaeagly.org/Smearcase Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:27:40 +0000 Ursula Eagly https://ursulaeagly.org/Smearcase <img width="4368" height="2912" width_o="4368" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5cbbce424c56bf094c598ee33365d9d49d01b1713a91db0c559105e21ef9c5db/Ursula_DTW_0803_134.jpeg" data-mid="76884338" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5cbbce424c56bf094c598ee33365d9d49d01b1713a91db0c559105e21ef9c5db/Ursula_DTW_0803_134.jpeg" /> Previous Project Next Project Smearcase (2008) with Dean DeChiaro, Abby Harris, Jeremy Holmes, Keith Malone An endless of cycle of violence in bad mime and abstract movement. A structured improvisation based on a children’s game. The cast includes a world champion competitive whistler (teen division), a documentary filmmaker, and Abby Harris Holmes &amp; Jeremy Holmes as the same bloody mouthed couple that they portrayed in Garden of Earthly Delights. WRITING: The New York Times Inquisitive Owl This piece was originally commissioned by the Bessie Schoenberg/First Light Commissioning and Creative Residency Program of Dance Theater Workshop with support from Time Warner, Inc. PHOTOGRAPHY by Gus Powell <img width="4368" height="2912" width_o="4368" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9ed3a9e4ad70153578dabade03b226bc864c383f13c4d81c55a1464157694ceb/Ursula_DTW_0803_270.jpeg" data-mid="76884344" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9ed3a9e4ad70153578dabade03b226bc864c383f13c4d81c55a1464157694ceb/Ursula_DTW_0803_270.jpeg" /> <img width="4368" height="2912" width_o="4368" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cdd14c0b3a987a45e9594633204d4dd2bf59127a08c2674e8b71ee3a6dd2cf0f/Ursula_DTW_0803_392.jpeg" data-mid="76884345" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cdd14c0b3a987a45e9594633204d4dd2bf59127a08c2674e8b71ee3a6dd2cf0f/Ursula_DTW_0803_392.jpeg" /> <img width="4368" height="2912" width_o="4368" height_o="2912" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7350c168aff3133a889ef43cb13c704bae353e8a2836d56002ee349801842a98/Ursula_DTW_0803_396.jpeg" data-mid="76884347" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7350c168aff3133a889ef43cb13c704bae353e8a2836d56002ee349801842a98/Ursula_DTW_0803_396.jpeg" />