Category Archives: Dance

Contact Improvisation

I’m teaching Contact Improvisation, weekly, at Stage 7 for the month of June. Dancers of all ages, experience, shapes and sizes are welcome to come play. (…)

Apr 11th & 12th: With Leslie Seiters and Charles Curtis

Justin and Leslie Seiters are performing this weekend at San Diego State with cellist Charles Curtis. (…)

March 3rd: (again) with Leslie Seiters at Basic


In this final experimental installation of "How much of what there is" (a work in progress to be performed in it’s entirety fall 08), Leslie, Ron, Jillian and myself will be performing a re-working of source material in a series of interlocking loops, lasting about 1 hour.

Bottle Night photo update

These images just came in from our performance of Leslie’s work, last month. Just in time for the next installment of Bottle Night this Monday, 7:30pm @ Bar Basic, Downtown San Diego.

Feb 4th: Performing with Leslie Seiters at Basic

Leslie creating her installation - Feb 08
Monday Feb 4th at Basic Urban Kitchen+Bar, Leslie Seiters, Ron Estes, Jillian Chu and myself will be dancing a work from the upcoming "How much of what there is." (look for it in the fall).

Feb 2nd: Dancing with SWARMIUS at Neurosciences Institute

Leslie, Ron and I, along with Niamh Condron, are performing with Joeseph Waters et. al, aka: SWARMIUS on Saturday, Feb. 2nd at the Neurosciences Institute, La Jolla. (…)

dumb dance

The culture of narcissism in dance has a new ally: movmnt magazine has a social network. Dancers who aspire to celebrity now have more ways than the studio mirror to admire their youthful mugs. (…)

Images from MR Fall Festival

Josephine posted some great shots from her iPhone of Katie, KJ Holmes and I dancing at the Movement Research Fall Festival.

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Wendy Perron on our performance at St. Marks

"Katie Duck is the Zorba the Greek of improvisation: earthy, feeling every mode of sensuality, preposterous, irresistible, polymorphously perverse. (…)

Movement Research Fall Festival

Katie Duck, KJ Holmes and I are dancing together Friday Nov 30th, as part of the Movement Research Fall Festival at the Danspace Project in NYC. Alex Waterman will join us on Cello. (…)

DANCEonFILM Pre-show

Gabriel and I collaborated in making a piece where images were streamed from various locations (he in Washington, me outside the venue in California), working variously with music, movement, set and persona, culminating in a final meeting in the space. (…)

Omi in Action

Toward the end of the residency, photos were pooled and each person left with several hundred images representing our time together. (…)

Last day at Omi

Yesterday was our showing here on the grounds, where a sudden rain and thunderstorm forced us to scrap plans to perform outside in the fields. (…)

Omi photo update

There is an absence of text and explanation on this blog for the last week of exploration. I hope to make up for it in pictures. Enjoy!

View the complete photoset here

Katie Duck, Bach Suites

VIDEO: Katie Duck, Bach Suites

Holland Festival 2004
Excerpt from Six Suites, J.S. Bach

Watch it on google video

Yvonne Rainer, Trio A

VIDEO: Trio A (1978)
Yvonne Rainer

See it on youtube or google video.

SIGGRAPH 2007

UPDATE: That moving blur is Leslie:

Image courtesy of livefromSIGGRAPH.org

Opening the Sake:

Image courtesy of livefromSIGGRAPH.org

Jared at livefromSIGGRAPH.org snapped a shot after the opening of the Sake barrel. (…)

New Classes

Ensemble Improvisation for Performance
Weekly sessions will provide structure and practice in improvisation, and will develop perceptual skills crucial to ensemble performance. (…)

Contact Improvisation

I’ll be teaching Contact Improvisation, weekly, at Dance Place San Diego for most of July. Dancers of all ages, experience, shapes and sizes are welcome to come play. (…)

Spring Reverb 2007

UPDATE: Mon, May 21st
Karen Hubbard has made available some images taken Friday night at the Kava Lounge. (…)

MUSIC / DANCE @ STAGE 7 - Sat Apr 21st

Sat Apr 21st - 8pm

Download printable flyer
music:
Jeremy Drake / Tucker Dulin / Chris Heenan
dance:
Justin Morrison / Leslie Seiters / Amanda Waal
admission is free

If you plan to attend, please RSVP by leaving a comment at the Stage 7 website as seating will be limited.

music/dance @ Art Around Adams SAT Dec 2nd

music:
Tucker Dulin (trombone)
dance:
Patricia Maldonado, Jennifer Oliver, Justin Morrison

Performance Times:
6:20, 8:00, 9:40pm
Location:
The parking lot at Zen Body Mind Center on Adams Ave., Kensington. (…)

music/dance @ Stage 7 - Nov 25th

Update: video & audio

2nd set opening video:

Complete audio from the 2nd set:

Download complete MP3 - 29mb

Photos from the 1st set:

Music/Dance @ Stage 7
Saturday November 25th @ 8PM
FREE Admission
dance:
Justin Morrison / Amanda Waal / Rebecca Bryant
music:
Tatsuya Nakatani / Tucker Dulin / Chris Tonelli
Stage 7 School of Dance
3980 30th St., North Park
San Diego
stage7.com
hhproduction.org
alltheseworlds.org
christonelli.bravehost.com
justinmorrison.net

music/dance @ Stage 7 - Sept 30th

(click to view flyer)
Update: audio recording
This event was a huge success. Thanks to everyone who helped get the word out at such short notice. Stay tuned for video and images. (…)

Skin

This is a short experimental film by Colleen Teresa Bartley (do you have a website Colleen?), presently living and working in London. (…)

Alex Fischer Magpie promo video

This video was assembled and shot by Alex Fischer, artist in residence at OT301. (…)

Seoul International Improvsation Dance Festival 2006

Just arrived in Seoul after an 11 hour flight from Amsterdam, 3 hour layover in Hong Kong, 4 more hours to Seoul and 2 hour drive from the airport to the hotel. (…)

Open Stage Amsterdam @ Dance St.

I’ll be performing this Saturday at an event sponsored by ConfiDance @ Dance St., Amsterdam. Thanks to Celia Grannum for inviting me to participate! (…)

Movement analysis @ MTD

Recently I took over for Vincent Cacialano’s movement analysis class in the Modern Theater Department at the AHK Theaterschool, Amsterdam. (…)