James Moreno is a dance studies scholar and choreographer working at the intersection of practice and theory. He uses performance as a way to think, theorize, and ask questions about the ways that people use their bodies to create meaning, develop communities, and respond to social systems. He has presented his research and choreography nationally and internationally. His manuscript, The Dances of José Limon and Erick Hawkins is under contract with Routledge. Moreno holds a PhD in Performance Studies from Northwestern University and is Assistant Professor of Dance at the University of Kansas.
Moreno’s current choreographic project, Margins is a piece for nine dancers and examines relationships between the center and the margin. It considers how readers interject marks, scrawls, and comments into a text. Key questions this work examines include: how does marking the text put one into the text? How can marginalia create active rather passive readers? Margins will be shown at Links Hall in Chicago on Oct 20 and 21, 2017. His previous choreographic project human, next, a collaboration with expanded-media artist Benjamin Rosenthal, had its New York City premiere in 2014 and was presented in Chicago in 2016. Rosenthal’s video adaptation of the work has been presented in video/film festivals in Athens, Greece, Weimar, Germany, Holon, Israel, New York City, and Venice, Italy.
Moreno’s current choreographic project, Margins is a piece for nine dancers and examines relationships between the center and the margin. It considers how readers interject marks, scrawls, and comments into a text. Key questions this work examines include: how does marking the text put one into the text? How can marginalia create active rather passive readers? Margins will be shown at Links Hall in Chicago on Oct 20 and 21, 2017. His previous choreographic project human, next, a collaboration with expanded-media artist Benjamin Rosenthal, had its New York City premiere in 2014 and was presented in Chicago in 2016. Rosenthal’s video adaptation of the work has been presented in video/film festivals in Athens, Greece, Weimar, Germany, Holon, Israel, New York City, and Venice, Italy.