Meet the Artists: MATTHEW

Matthew Baker originates from Ann Arbor, Michigan, where, before launching into the dance world, he began his movement exploration as a gymnast and soccer player. Prior to relocating to New York City, Matthew received his BFA Degree in Dance from Western Michigan University in April 2008. In addition to his work with Launch, Matthew has been a member of Keigwin & Company since 2009. In 2010 Matthew enjoyed assistant choreographing alongside Larry Keigwin for Vogue's "The Fashion Show", New York's largest fashion show in history. Also in 2010, Matthew began creating and exploring with Launch and has continued collaborating since.

Watch some of Matt's sweet moves
in The Supper's rehearsal process:

Meet the Artists: FADE

Fade Kainer is a NYC-based musician/vocalist/producer/remixer. His current projects include industrial/metal band INSWARM and the doom outfit BATILLUS in which he contributes vocals, synths, and samples. Fade is also a live member of JARBOE. His solo project, STATIQBLOOM, is an ambient/electronic/noise project that has been described as "atmospheric music mostly composed in stream of thought, drifting at times from melancholy and sparse, to dense and haunting". Fade was the vocalist/songwriter of the industrial metal group, Still Life Decay (2002-06). Other projects include collaborations with Hekate, love is nothing, Ascension of The Watchers (live drummer 2005-06). In addition, he has remixed many bands including Fear Factory, Secrets of the Moon, Black Sun, Side 3. In 2007, Fade began composing music for Launch Movement Experiment, collaborating with the dancers to create "sonic scenery".

www.batillusdoom.com
www.myspace.com/inswarm

Meet the Artists: PATRICK

Patrick Ferreri has been exploring movement for as long as he can remember and against all logic, he keeps going. His investigations, oft excavations, have brought him into the company of too many amazing artists to list here, but since you are reading this you are probably curious so they have included David Dorfman Dance, Clare Byrne, Sara Shelton Mann, Albert Mathias and Kathleen Hermesdorf. He is currently inspired by cinematic viewings of the word, cloud patterns and plays of light in the sky, the drama we keep beneath the surface but secretly love to let "slip" out. He has spent the last two years on the west coast fostering and supporting a polyamorous love affair between adrenaline, caffeine, and glitter which has manifested in biking around San Francisco, hanging out with drag queens, eating, and thinking about audience engagement in art.

Patrick's Work:

The Supper Premise 001

Neurological testing is based on deception and secrecy. Not only does deception figure into the mind control experiments but it also keeps victims from determining who is conducting the mind control, how it is carried out, and where the perpetrators might be located...

SNEAK PEAK VIDEO!

Launch Movement Experiment presents The Supper from REGULARMOTION on Vimeo.

video shoot

Richert Schnorr is creating some video art for the project! About a week ago, he directed the first round of takes.
IT WAS A BLAST!!!

He is creating a sneak peak video which we will be posting and sending out prior to the show. He is also creating a video that will be shown before and after the show. AND, he is performing in the piece! We are excited to incorporate this element and his genius as part of the project.

Video coming soon... yeah.

what we have been up to : PART 2

notes and thoughts:

working with a confined space on the floor. I am not sure how i will confine myself? Confinement makes we wonder about both sides of the defined lines. What happens inside? outside of the them? closer/farther away?

patrolling. flashlights.

being confined to a specific area. confining something to a specific area. prisoner.
vast emptiness, confusion, disorientation, repetition.
lonely.

synopsis: she builds her own cell. she enters and exits it as she pleases. when she is inside her cell, she finds comfort in her loneliness. when she steps outside of it, she is disoriented, confused, short of breath, unable to exist without it. It repeats. The journey, her pattern, it remains the same. The external elements change. she doesn't.

to encompass all of the above research, I decided to repeat the same movement/spatial pattern three times, each time with a different prop and a different group of sounds. by doing so, i wanted to see how the varying themes within the piece influenced what i presented and what the audience received. Doing this, allowed me to try to conducted a real-time study of perception and perspective from my point of view as the performer as well as from the point of view of the viewers.

here is some of it: