Richard Move's MoveOpolis!: Hostile Takeover

Six unique performances throughout Lower Manhattan

August 12–22 & 26

Richard Move's MoveOpolis! presents Hostile Takeover, six elaborate live performance installations that occur at different downtown locations. A glamorous collision of sexual desire and violence, masculinity and femininity and real and imagined worlds, Hostile Takeover places feminine beauty upon a pedestal (literally) in the midst of the male-dominated world of high finance, with stunningly costumed, Butoh-inspired female dancers. A final performance event, Dances at a Gathering, featuring the entire MoveOpolis! cast and an assortment of professional artists and DJs, will be presented on August 25.

Choreographer: Richard Move

Costume Design: Teatro del Odio and Gia Grosso

Music: DJ Savage, AD 12, and Prince D.

Video: Forward Motion Theater

Performances

Monday, August 18: Hesperornis Regalis (Seabird), performed by Celeste Hastings

Tuesday, August 19: Mariko Mori Musings (Japanese Anime) performed by Dawn Dunning

Wednesday, August 20: Red Cicciolina performed by Blakeley White-McGuire

Thursday, August 21: La Danse d'Hermes performed by Katherine Crockett

Friday, August 22: cavalla bianca (white horse) performed by Catherine Cabeen

Monday August 25: Dances at a Gathering, a culminating performance event featuring all of the above performers

About Richard Move & MoveOpolis!

Richard Move is a choreographer, director, filmmaker, performer and director of MoveOpolis! The NYC Premiere of MoveOpolis!, was at Dance Theater Workshop and its World Premiere at the Jacobs Pillow Dance Festival. Recent MoveOpolis! collaborators include Patricia Field (Sex and the City, The Devil Wears Prada), visual artist Charles Atlas and writer Hilton Als (The New Yorker). His The Show (Achilles Heels), created for Mikhail Baryshnikov, recently featured Rasta Thomas and Deborah Harry of Blondie. Move choreographed the film Strangers With Candy, starring Amy Sedaris and Stephen Colbert, Shirley Bassey's Diamonds are Forever at the Cannes Film Festival and directed Isaac Mizrahi‘s LES MIZrahi.

Martha @ ..., Move’s performances as Martha Graham, received two ‘Bessie’ Awards, tours internationally and is featured on the BBC, PBS’ City Arts (2001 Emmy Award) and is the subject of the forthcoming British documentary Making Martha. Move’s feature film GhostLight premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, was screened at festivals internationally and distributed by Palisades Pictures. Move performs as guest artist with the National Choreographic Center in Tours, France and his theatrical and choreographic commissions include: Martha Graham Dance Company, American Festival/Paris, Opera Ballet/Florence, the European Cultural Capital and numerous large-scale special events including installations at the Guggenheim Museum and the VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards.

Move is presently working toward an M.F.A in Film and Digital Media and making Blood Work, a film on the late visual/performance artist Ana Mendieta.

Special Thanks

Special thanks to our hosts: Seaport Marketplace, Lincoln Palsgrove, and Steven Dima; 77 Water Street and Brian DiNicola; 7 World Trade Center and Rebecca Shalomoff; Hermès Wall Street, Bernice Kwok-Gable and Mark Coats; General Growth Properties and Damian Smeragliuolo; Fresh Salt Bar & Cafe.

August 25 culminating performance event hosted by Seaport Marketplace.

Sitelines is generously supported by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Produced in association with the River To River® Festival.

The River To River Festival, presented by American Express, is a collaboration of Lower Manhattan’s major cultural event producers including the Alliance for Downtown New York, arts>World Financial Center, Battery Park City Authority, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Port Authority of NY & NJ, and South Street Seaport. These partners are firmly committed to using the arts as a tool for revitalization and the development of new audiences.

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