Choreo Lab

Choreo Lab
Move, make, build community.
A free choreographic lab project hosted by Gavin McDowell at Vivid Oblivion in Cambridge!

Wednesdays

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

March 27, 2024

April 3, 2024

April 17, 2024

April 24, 2024

June 5, 2024

June 12, 2024

Vivid Oblivion

288 Norfolk Street 2A

Cambridge MA

Accessibility note: no elevator, up two flights of stairs

What is it?
Choreo Lab is a free choreographic lab space, held most Wednesdays 7-9pm at Vivid Oblivion in Inman Square. It is a community space focused on experimentation, discovery, and development of creative process for movement-based performance works. We also hold intermittent workshops with choreographers or other movement-based artists, and will schedule informal showings of works in progress every few months based on interest.

Who is it for?

• Novice to intermediate choreographers or other movement-based art makers
• Movers of any level and any movement background

What happens at Choreo Lab?
I will run a short group warmup at the start of every lab session, and the remainder of the time will be open lab time. In practice, we will negotiate the flow of the lab at the start of each session based on what the individuals in attendance have prepared, or are interested in, so come and make it yours! Some shapes that this can take:

• We work together to develop a movement prompt we are all interested in and try it out. Afterwards, we discuss what it was like or what was interesting to us. Maybe we pick something else to try from there
• You bring an idea to brainstorm or workshop, inspiration to share, props to play with. We discuss it, maybe we are inspired to try something out.
• We all work together to put together a flash performance of a work created entirely during the lab.
• You bring a pre-prepared prompt or score for improvisation and a few people try it together as a group.
• You try out teaching a pre-prepared phrase or score to a small group, or you and a few others perform a short score or phrase for feedback from the group
• You work alone or in collaboration to develop a new score or phrase from scratch based on your own process, or prompts available in the space. Maybe you share it with the group for feedback.
• You work alone or in a group to journal, collage, draw, research, or whatever you feel the need to work on in the space.
• Anything you would like to try, probably!

You may come with something prepared you would like to try, or with nothing in particular in mind. Regardless, I ask that you bring to the space an earnest and curious spirit, a willingness to try and fail, a willingness to listen and participate, and a desire to share with others in kind. Hope to see you there!

Choreo Lab Mailing List
@gav.makes.things

This program is supported in part by a grant from Cambridge Arts, a local agency which is supported by the Mass Cultural Council, a state agency.

Parking & Public Transit

Street parking can be found on Hampshire Street and Cambridge Street. Please do not park in the parking lots at the base of the building as they are private and will tow. Central Square Cambridge public transportation is .7 miles away. Union Square Somerville Green Line stop is .6 miles away. Bus lines that run through Inman Sq are the 83 and 69.

Venue

The event will take place at Vivid Oblivion, a 1200 sq ft studio in Inman Sq Cambridge dedicated to strengthening intersectional, international, and intergenerational co-creative dialogue to catalyze change, deepening networks within ourselves, place, and each other in service of visioning new and better futures. The studio opens new trajectories within body and landscape, through the wilds of interdisciplinary exchange, rigor and the untamed in performance, dance, somatics, design, and emerging spiritualities.