kNots and Nests by Marion Ramírez  is an improvisational interdisciplinary performance project celebrating duets as the smallest units of a community. Responding to an era of heightened tension and violence, kNots and Nests zooms into partnerships as “home spaces” for collaborative practice in sound, movement and visual art expression. For the Temple University commission the project collaborators and workshop leaders included Adam Vidiskis (music), and Kris Rumman (visual art), Jungwoong Kim (performance) and joined by the core research group of Temple students from the dance, music therapy, music technology, musical theater, film and sculpture departments. 

kNots and Nests is Temple University Department of Dance, Institute for Dance Scholarship Reflection:Response Choreographic Commission 2019, curated by Merian Soto

kNots and Nests- for project details go HERE, Post from Temple Dance Department’s blog- HERE

kNots & Nests, pulse and air

kNots & Nests- pulse and air, is a performance piece celebrating the duet as the smallest unit of community. Responding to an era of heightened tension and violence,  pulse and air zooms into the inner body’s capillaries, a home for suspended rest, and wakeful exchange. An intersection for improvisational dialogue among the performer’s rhythms and worlds. It was presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects at Christ Church Neighborhood House, February 26th,27th

“Marion Ramirez presented a winning and sensitive cross-cultural collaboration with fellow dancer Jungwoong Kim and musicians Juan Cuco Castellanos and gamin” by Jane Fries for The Dance Journal

REVIEW HERE