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Jonathan Meyer
lab artist, 2008

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Jonathan Meyer began dancing at Oberlin College and graduated from the dance program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His movement studies have included modern, ballet, post-modern, contact improvisation, capoeira, butoh, and gymnastics. He has danced with Rick Darnell and The High Risk Group, Pierre-Paul Savoire, Het Volta, Chicago Dance Crash, The Seldoms, and Asimina Chremos. He is currently a collaborative partner with Julia Rae Antonick and has served as Artistic Director of Khecari Dance Theatre since its founding in 2002. Visit www.khecari.org for more info.


during the CDF year

Meyer's CDF project, The Waking Room, inquired into the somatic corollaries of psychotic experience as a way of understanding the substructures of the human perceptual process. If achieved, this understanding will serve as a foundational matrix from which choreography may arise. The goal is that movement material be created not from a perceptually integrated aesthetics, but rather from the physiological language of the pre-perceptual process.

 Watch a work-in-progress video at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0hIr5owV68&feature=channel_page

 




The Waking Room premiered:

September 10th - 13th, 16th - 19th, 2009

at Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S. Morgan St.


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