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Movement Artist -- robotics and machine kinetics

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Ellen Godena commented on lomodeedee's video 'New Walking Twitchie Robot'

Hey, this is the robot I performed with in Boston in November 2008. 'wiresounds' is my musician-collaborator! We put this robot together and made a horse-like creature.

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Jeannette Ginslov commented on Ellen Godena's video 'Elevator Dance 2'

great! kinesthetically moving. what if the video had been turned on its side? just a thought...

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Ellen Godena is an experimental movement artist, improviser, and performer. Her recent work has focused on the relationships between human, non-human (organic), and machine (non-organic) movement as a method for studying human development. Recent solo and collaborative works have been quests to define these relationships through the use of primitive, robotic entities in performance. This particular research began in 2008 when she and musician-collaborator Max Lord were granted a performance residency at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots (LEMUR, Brooklyn, NY). Through this residency they created a sound-movement orchestra with simple machines, a marimba lumina, and a body; since, they have worked on projects together that fused sound/body and the most primitive of technologies in performance.

Ellen’s training, artistic influences and inspiration derive from the study of Japanese avant-garde movement and theater forms that have developed since the early 1960’s, primarily the butoh dances created by Japanese artists Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata, physical theater, and contemporary dance. Since 1998, she has performed solo, group, and ensemble work in Boston, Philadelphia, Providence, and New York City. She was a former dancer with the Boston-based Kitsune Dance Theater (2003-06) under the direction of Deborah Butler, and the NYC post-modern butoh troupe, the Vangeline Theater (2006-08) under the direction of Vangeline. She has performed with Master butoh artist Katsura Kan (Curious Fish, 2002, 2008), and has studied with internationally recognized artists such as Zack Fuller, Hiroko Tamano, Su-En, Diego Pinon, and Katsura Kan. Her primary, long-term training has been with American artists Deborah Butler, Vangeline, and Jennifer Hicks. Currently, Ellen is presenting solo robotics – movement projects in addition to performing regularly with Liz Roncka's Real-Time Performance Project in Boston, MA. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Rhode Island School of Design in Studio Painting (1997), a Master's of Education in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University (2005), and is currently at Boston University pursuing a Master's degree in Clinical Social Work.

She is co-founder and co-producer of the Juddertone Performance Series with composers Jane Wang and Juliet Case, and the notorious Zeroplan Experimental Performance Series with Max Lord. She joined the Mobius Artists Group in late 2009.

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Cognitive Science, Contemporary dance, Cyborg Studies, Dance and dance-theater, Dance Improvisation, Performance Documentation video, Performance art, Robotics

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Isadora, camera work, dance forms, robotic devices

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I was interviewed as a Resident artist at the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots

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PLEO Series: Attachment Research I

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Galvanic Skin Response Sensors - Movement Work

I am collaborating on a project using galvanic skin response sensors in movement performance for the Boston Cyberarts Festival this Spring 2009. I and 2 other dancers I am working with will be wearing the sensors in performance (currently testing out finger versus toe attachments). These will be wired through an analog synthesizer (foregoing digital mediation this round). We will be creating moody low-tones in conjunction with other sounds played by a collaborating musician. Our goal is to creat… Continue

Posted on January 5, 2009 at 1:15pm —

Boston Phoenix Article on Zeroplan Performance Series

This press piece can be viewed on the Boston Phoenix Web site at:

http://thephoenix.com/boston/Music/62959-Without-a-script/

Without a script
Zeroplan keeps moving
By SUSANNA BOLLE | June 10, 2008

Founded in February 2007 by New York dancer and choreographer ELLEN GODENA and Boston musician MAX LORD, Zeroplan is a performance series that combines improvised experimental music with avant-garde movement and dance. Performances in Boston (there are related New York shows) are informal and… Continue

Posted on October 29, 2008 at 1:03pm —

Robot-Human Movement Video Sketches.

Please watch these via this link to my music collaborator's page on Vimeo:

http://www.vimeo.com/2076407

Feel free to post comments there (if you have an account) or to me directly. These 'sketches' are for a show with the twitchie robot in Cambridge MA on November 14/15, 2008. Max Lord is playing the Buchla Marimba Lumina, a mid-marimba, with a buchla synthesizer

Posted on October 28, 2008 at 11:47am —

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At 10:16pm on February 25, 2009, Brittany said…: hey Ellen,
how's your project working out?
i'll be in boston again in the teens of March--hope to connect with you again:-)

At 12:34pm on October 29, 2008, Liz said…: I will! Thanks for the invite!

At 6:10pm on March 4, 2008, dance-tech.net/Producer said…: Hello Ellen, welcome!
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