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ellen

Once you feel your mind holding your feet back, you should already be on the move

About Me

Ellen Godena is a New York City-based choreographer and movement artist. Her work is informed by on-going studies in Japanese butoh and western dance forms and formal training in the visual arts. She considers movement to be a distillation process, an on-going effort to define the essence of human and inanimate forms. Often structured as movement-based installations, Ellen's numerous solo and group projects have been presented at venues throughout New England and New York. Deborah Butler, curator of the Boston Butoh Series said of her recent work, Phloem, “Ellen transformed herself into particles of nature, animal forms and reflections of the human psyche…her presence was startling and very moving and beyond human.” Ellen is grateful to all of her teachers: Kitsune/Deborah Butler, Jennifer Hicks, Su-En, Kan Katsura, Hiroko Tamano, Diego Pinon, Vangeline, and Pamela Wunderlich.

Ellen co-curates a performance series, ZeroPlan, with musician Max Lord which explores improvised collaborations between experimental musicians and dancers whose work has been influenced by butoh: www.zeroplan.org : fixed; }
Sequins
http://www.vimeo.com/1213812

Max Lord is playing and I am moving at ZEROPLAN, June 14, 2008. Be patient, it takes about a minute to see much of anything. Thanks, Max for grueling editing work!!!

My Interests

WWW.OCEANBODY.COM http://www.virb.com/zeroplan

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Brian Eno, Philip Glass, Steven Reich, John Cage, white noise, loud noise, shouting, mechanical and industrial sounds of all kinds, Pj Harvey, Lady Sovereign, Al Green, Bill Withers, Bebel Gilberto, Fela Kuti, Femi Kuti, yeahyeahyeahs, Interpol, Mum, Sigur Ros, Joy Division, The Cure (before 1990), Stereolab, Espers...i really hate whistling.

Movies:

ANYTHING by David Lynch, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lost in Translation, Five Easy Pieces, Memento, Japanese Horror Films, Groundhog Day, Wings of Desire, Faraway So Close, Jacques Tati films (because they are so beautiful -- not a fan of the humor)...those swirly videos by marcel duchamps...

Sequins
http://www.vimeo.com/1213812

Max Lord is playing and I am moving at our latest ZEROPLAN in Boston on June 14, 2008. Be patient, it takes about a minute before you see anything at all (it is worth it). Thanks to Max for grueling editing work!!

Television:

i only like bea arthur. i only like bea arthur with shoulder pads on.

Books:

SALINGER!!!! HENRY MILLER!!! monographs on henry darger, the crazy rantings of henry darger, the crazy paintings of henry darger, Alice Munro, Herman Hesse, Aldous Huxley, Kurt Vonnegut, Umberto Eco, Fernando Pessoa, Jamaica Kincaid, Dystopic Novels, William Gibson, Philip K. Dick, Ursula K Leguin (a seer), Anne Carson, Sharon Olds, Sylvia Plath, and Ahkmatova. Phenomenology (Bachelard and Heidegger especially) anything on genetics and genetic technologies, psychology/cognitive neuroscience, or creativity theory. memoirs of madness.

Heroes:

a certain 101 year old japanese man...

My Blog

ZEROPLAN in Tribeca this Sunday!!

Hey New York Peoples--This Sunday at 7:30 pm, head down to the Tank in Tribeca for the final installment of the Zeroplan Performance Series. You can catch some amazing acts while enjoying a drink from...
Posted by ellen on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 07:27:00 PST

More Witchiness: May 16th

Save the date for a performance of an excerpt from my Solo piece, Phloem, on Wednesday, May 16th at the Galapagos Art Space in Williamsburg at 10:00 p.m. The show is a benefit for the Vangeline Theatr...
Posted by ellen on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:37:00 PST

March 17th Show!

Come and see an excellent collaboration between Max and I on Saturday, March 17th at Third Life Studios in Somerville, Ma. Yes, we are taking a chance with St. Patrick's Day...but not really. This is ...
Posted by ellen on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 05:57:00 PST

June and July Shows

I am showing my new piece, "I am an agent of time, yet I am not here" on two dates in June and July 2006:1.  June 25, 2006 Frazier Festival, Providence RI, with music by Max Lord.2.  July 14...
Posted by ellen on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:52:00 PST

Threshold (or why I don't know what I don't know)

To debut at the Rhode Island Independant Performing Artists Collective show on February 10th and 11th at the Carriage House Theater in Providence, Rhode Island. Every conceivable energy state exis...
Posted by ellen on Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:52:00 PST