May
11
to May 12

Dance NOW/Boston

Photo: Peter Raper

 

Hey everyone,

Remember those "Stories of a Mexican Immigrant" I shared on Instagram a few years back?  If you haven't seen them, you can find them HERE. Each post explored a different aspect of my life as a Mexican living in the US, sharing experiences and answering common questions about Mexico or being Mexican.

Those stories were the seed for my new dance solo – "Jimena"! It's a performance that explores identity and memories.

This year's "Jimena" holds a very special addition: I'll be sharing the stage with the one and only – my mom, Margie Bermejo! This year'sperformance also features works by: The Bang Group, Marcus Schulkind (my longtime dance mentor!), Lynn Modell, and Tony Williams.

Get ready for the always fabulous DANCE NOW Boston! The performance is on May 11th & 12th, 2024 – don't miss it! Tickets are on sale now, so grab yours here:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/879649484287

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Jun
18
12:00 PM12:00

Premiering a new video titled "Tu"

Showing a new piece at as part of Flow Symposium . Flow 2022

This online public performance symposium brings together the international community of artists working in public performance art practices. The practice-based workshops, performative lectures and artist presentations are with specialists working in the field.

Saturday June 18 @12noon - 2pm CT | 7pm - 9pm ECT
Symposium Workshop Attendees
Martine Viale & Frans van Lent, Hilary Gilligan, Jimena Bermejo, Soufïa Bensaïd, Daniela Ehemann & Isa Fontbona
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¡Bordes! Borders! ¡Bordes!
Jun
17
to Jun 18

¡Bordes! Borders! ¡Bordes!

  • The Dance Complex @ Canal (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

¡Bordes! Borders! ¡Bordes!

on June 17, June 18, 2022, 8pm

at The Dance Complex @ Canal in Kendall Square’s Canal District.

To ensure accessibility, tickets are free, with donations accepted

Dive into the imaginal, poetic, and dreamlike psychological landscapes of 3 Boston

artists and 4 San Juan Puerto Rico artists spanning borders in a performance that

culminates a year of virtually dreaming together.

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The Poetics of Aging
Jul
10
to Jul 11

The Poetics of Aging

http://www.freeskewl.com/poetics-of-aging.html

Image Description: Large blue text over a yellow background reads “Poetics of Aging.” Blue wavy drawn lines on the bottom half, below the text. The freeskewl logo of an open circle with arrows on each end is in blue at the top left corner with freeskewl's web address. Design by Lindsey Jennings.

Poetics of Aging: a weekend of performance and conversation

July 10th & 11th, 2021 on Zoom
​*PAST EVENT

Poetics of Aging was a weekend of performance and conversation initiated by Jimena Bermejo. These panel discussions and performances featured dance artists whose current research situates itself in relation to the topic of aging.

View the Panel Conversation

SCHEDULE:
PANEL on Saturday, July 10th at 6pm EDT
moderated by Rosemary Candelario
with speakers Eiko Otake, Bebe Miller, Chris Aiken, and Joe Bowie

PERFORMANCE A on Saturday, July 10th at 8pm EDT
Ana Baer Carrilo
Daniel Lepkoff
Mary Fitzgerald and Eileen Standley
David Dorfman
Anya Cloud and Rebecca Salzer with Ishmael Houston-Jones and Sara Shelton Mann
Anna Brown Massey
Sarah Skaggs and Cori Kresge

PERFORMANCE B on Sunday, July 11th at 4pm EDT
The Architects (Kathy Couch, Katherine Ferrier, Lisa Gonzales, Jennifer Kayle, Pamela Vail)
Molly Shanahan/Jeff Hancock
Julie Brodie, Balinda Craig-Quijada, & Kora Radella in Trio A
Lisa Nelson, Jennifer Nugent and Jen Polins
Kathryn Posin
Rowena Richie
Daniel Burkholder
Sara Hook

PERFORMANCE C on Sunday, July 11th at 7pm EDT
Lisa Race and Shawn Hove
Celeste Miller
Nicole Pierce
Anabella Lenzu
Mary Beth Brooker
Gabrielle Revlock
Janis Brenner
Jennifer Mabus

​​PAYMENT:
Cost of each Poetics of Aging event is $4-60.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you can, consider sponsoring payment for someone in need by simply doubling your payment. Income collected by 11:59pm EDT on the night of the event will go directly to artists and organizer. Zoom link and password above; all in the waiting room will be admitted.
Venmo: @freeskewl
PayPal: CLICK HERE to pay on PayPal or send to freeskewlteam@gmail.com

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Apr
16
7:00 PM19:00

Fern

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Fern

I will be showing a new piece titled #1 Eyes.

#1Eyes the first of a series of movement pieces created for Zoom, invites the audience to be part of the performance by following a series of prompts, creating a shared and physical “Zoom” experience. Each video in the series brings attention to one of our primary senses.


Friday, April 16th at 7:00pm EDT / 4:00pm PDT

featuring works by Ronya-Lee Anderson, Jimena Bermejo, Ilona Bito, Mira Göksel, Octavia Rose Hingle, Mia Martelli

PAYMENT:
Suggested ticket price for FERN is $4-50. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. If you can, consider sponsoring a ticket for someone in need by simply doubling your payment. Income collected by 11:59pm EDT on the night of the performance will be split between artists.
Venmo: @freeskewl
PayPal: Send to freeskewlteam@gmail.com

ZOOM (just join!):
Zoom link: zoom.us/j/3093774924
Zoom password: 640262

ACCESSIBILITY:
Closed captioning will be available through Rev Live Captioning

Learn more on www.freeskewl.com


Graphic design by Lindsey Jennings.

Poster Image Description: 3 tall ferns are drawn in green, behind is a grey scale background. The freeskewl logo is in dark green, circling large white text that reads "FERN Friday, April 16 7:00PM EST." Below more white words say: "With works by: Ronya-Lee Anderson, Jimena Bermejo, Ilona Bito, Mira Göksel, Octavia Rose Hingle, Mia Martelli" Our web address--www.freeskewl.com--is in green, centered at the bottom.

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Jan
22
to Jan 24

Music and Movement Virtual Conference

“(Em)brace (or what my cell phone has a tendency to do to me” will be featured on Saturday as part of this conference.This piece is a performance piece written by the American composer Anthony Green (now based in the Netherlands) for Mexican perform…

“(Em)brace (or what my cell phone has a tendency to do to me” will be featured on Saturday as part of this conference.

This piece is a performance piece written by the American composer Anthony Green (now based in the Netherlands) for Mexican performance artist/dancer Jimena Bermejo (now based in the US) with accompaniment/co-movement by US musician Chris Brokaw. It debuted in 2017 at Judson Hall in New York City.

The Music and Movement Conference seeks to bring scholars, musicians, composers, and performing artists together in conversation regarding the dynamic relationship between movement and music. Each panel will feature both paper presentations and performances, underscoring the ways in which the various subdisciplines of music and the performing arts can inform and reinforce one another.

The full conference schedule and program can be found here.

Registration for the Music and Movement Conference is free and open to the public! To register, simply follow the links below for each day you would like to attend. (The same link will work for all panels that take place on the given day.)

Registration Link for Friday, January 22, 2021 

Registration Link for Saturday, January 23, 2021 

Registration Link for Sunday, January 24, 2021 

Please contact pittmusicconference@gmail.com if you have questions or if you would like more information.

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Art & The Expanded Digital Media Conversations
Aug
11
4:00 PM16:00

Art & The Expanded Digital Media Conversations

In the age of COVID-19, art is happening simultaneously everywhere, at all times, and nowhere. Our relationships to physical space, objects, and now virtual audiences are reconfigured and mediated by expansions and distortions in the digital realm: intimate glimpses into people’s homes and studios; new experimental possibilities and platforms; and the alternating affective charge and utter depletion of one too many Zoom meetings. Join Eben Haines (artist and founder/curator of Shelter in Place Gallery), Rashin Fahandej (transdisciplinary artist and assistant professor of emerging and interactive media, Emerson College, Boston) and Jimena Bermejo (performance artist, Director of Dance at College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, and Mobius, Inc. groupmember) in conversation with curator Leonie Bradbury as they discuss (and demonstrate live!) the ways they are expanding artistic practice on digital media platforms.

This event is part of a series of summer talks co-curated and co-hosted by the AREA CODE ART FAIR in partnership with Northeastern University's Center for the Arts in the Northeastern University College of Arts, Media and Design. Programs are FREE but require advanced registration at this link: https://camd.northeastern.edu/event/art-in-and-the-digital-space/

Facebook event link

REGISTER HERE

Image: Rashin Fahandej, “A Father’s Lullaby”, immersive installation, The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Boston (2019). Photo by Aram Bogosian.

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Tabled
Jun
15
2:00 PM14:00

Tabled

Tabled is a piece about repetition, endurance, and focus. Responding to the realities of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bermejo navigates, and re-navigates a finite object, forcing her body/medium to find new pathways.
While performing this piece the table takes over and becomes an extension of and an attack on the artist's body. She will repeat this task for as long as she can bare, and after rest, begin again.

Bermejo invites viewers to participate in the performance by communicating with her through the chat function, which she has programmed, text-to-speak.


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Moment's Notice
Oct
23
8:00 PM20:00

Moment's Notice

Moment's Notice, a multidisciplinary performance salon of improvisation.*Susan Thompson (theater), *Shamou (soundscapes), *Sarah Hickler and Cass Tunick (action theater), *Jimena Bermejo and Olivier Besson (dance/partnering), *Fray Cordero (movement)

This curated performance series devotes itself to the art of improvisation. Artists whose collaborations and solo works celebrate live-time creation find a home here. 

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Aug
24
7:00 PM19:00

[ ] @11 Jane St. Art Gallery

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with Jimena Bermejo, Chris Brokaw, Sara June, Max Lord

Saturday August 24, 2019 :: 7-8pm

$20 suggested donation at the door, seating is limited so please arrive at least 15 minutes prior to show.


11 Jane St. Art Center
11 Jane Street
Saugerties, NY 12477

This is a roughly 60-minute structured improvisation with plastic objects. The piece will morph between solos, duets, quad and trio combinations of the 4 artists that include movement, sound, and performance actions. The work will be cumulative and acquire performance remnants of past actions that will serve as a sculptural backdrop as the piece progresses.

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Moment's Notice
Feb
21
8:00 PM20:00

Moment's Notice

- Moment’s Notice / an Improvisational Salon.

* Cass Tunick and Sarah Hickler/ action theater 

* Nate Tucker/ sound, music

* Fotini Christophillis/ live painting

* Jimena Bermejo, Jenna Pollack and Olivier Besson/ movement, dance

This curated performance series devotes itself to the art of improvisation. Artists whose collaborations and solo works celebrate live-time creation find a home here. 

*The salon highlights improvisations from the realms of movement/dance, theater, sound/music, poetry and visual art.

Four or five short works get presented in an informal setting, where we celebrate the experimental territory and ephemeral nature of this art form. 

Our goal is to provoke a community conversation around the wild possibility inherent in these forms, inviting opportunities for both risk and freedom in performers and audiences alike.

** Moment's Notice is affiliated with The Boston Conservatory at Berklee and locates once a month in BoCo's studios. Olivier and Cass are curating the series. You can contact them for more information, including potential participation.

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Sep
23
12:00 PM12:00

Mothers Walk

As part of Transactions II (http://www.mobius.org/aevents/2018/9/22/transactions-ii-performance-art-on-the-greenway-boston-day-2), we will be leading a thoughtful, intentional pacing of the Mother’s Walk in the Rose Kennedy Greenway starting at noon, with a ritual spreading of rose petals. Mothers dressed in white will walk together silently performing a sequence of gestures, paying tribute to a long international history of mothers who have participated in public demonstrations of grief or resistance.

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Jimena Bermejo and Chris Brokaw at MAGMA
Jul
21
1:00 PM13:00

Jimena Bermejo and Chris Brokaw at MAGMA

Jimena Bermejo and Chris Brokaw began collaborating in 2017 after many years of mutual admiration. Their works combine the best elements of their shared interests in punk, poetics and the beauty of blood. The pieces they will bring to MAGMA,  " Slide," "I'm The Only One" and a new work in progress, "Our Fathers (who aren’t in heaven)" explore different ways to mix, play, and exchange their instruments: guitar and body.


Their work has been shown at Judson Church in New York City, Cathedral Arts Festival in Belfast, Green Street Studios in Cambridge and The Distillery Gallery in South Boston. 


Jimena Bermejo sees her body as a tool to create a dynamic and intimate relationship with an audience. She elicits a combination of physical and emotional engagement in pieces woven from memories, music, and personal relationships. She holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Studio for Interrelated Media and a BFA in Dance from The Boston Conservatory. Most recently, she has shown her work at The Cathedral Arts Festival in Belfast, U. K, The Judson Church in NYC, Distillery Gallery in South Boston, Le Lieu in Quebec, 808 Gallery in Boston, Mobius Gallery, Green Street Studios and The Dance Complex in Cambridge. She has also shown at the Art Beat and SomDance Festivals in Somerville. Jimena is currently a member of Mobius Artists Group and Caitlin Corbett Dance and has performed with many other local choreographers.

 

She holds an MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Studio for Interrelated Media and a BFA in Dance from The Boston Conservatory and currently, she is Director of the Dance Program at The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester and is currently faculty at Berklee College of Music, and The Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

www.jbermejo-black.com



Chris Brokaw is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, drummer and film composer based in Boston. Perhaps best known for his pioneering work with the bands CODEINE and COME, since 2002 Chris has released over a dozen solo albums of instrumental and vocal musics, composed music for film and dance, and worked as an accompanist to THURSTON MOORE, STEVE WYNN, EVAN DANDO, CHRISTINA ROSENVINGE, RHYS CHATHAM, JOHNNY DEPP and GG ALLIN. He currently plays in THE NEW YEAR, THE MARTHA'S VINEYARD FERRIES, THE EMPTY HOUSE COOPERATIVE, and THE LEMONHEADS, and in duos with GEOFF FARINA and LORI GOLDSTON. Chris performed with 200 guitarists under the tutelage pf Rhys Chatham at Lincoln Center; one of 77 drummers in the Boredoms' epic 77BOADRUM in Brooklyn; and with Dirtmusic at the Festival In The Desert in Essakane, Mali.


Chris' 2018 releases include CHARNEL GROUND, a collaboration with James McNew and Kid Millions (on 12XU, April 2018) and the forthcoming solo album END OF THE NIGHT (on VDSQ, autumn 2018). Other upcoming performances include the Hopscotch Festival (Raleigh, NC) and the National Gallery (Washington, DC) in September and the Invisible Festival (Brest, France) in November.

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Transactions
May
7
to May 12

Transactions

Bbeyond in conjuction with Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival present TRANSACTIONS: Boston artists exchange

TRANSACTIONS is an exchange between two prominent experimental artists’ groups, Mobius Artists Group in Boston and Bbeyond in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

This exchange, which emphasizes Boston and Belfast’s relationship as sister cities, provides opportunities for artists working at the helm of experimental practice in live performance to learn from each other, share audiences, work across national and cultural contexts while building connections through the creation of new works.

This May, seven Mobius artists: Marilyn Arsem, Jimena Bermejo, Daniel DeLuca, Milan Kohout, Mari Novotny-Jones, Sandrine Schaefer and Anna Wexler, will perform new works in Belfast specifically created for presentation in outdoor public space, as part of the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival.

In September, five artists from Belfast, Northern Ireland’s Bbeyond will be travelling to Boston in order to complete the exchange.  Transaction II will take place in downtown Boston’s Rose Kennedy Greenway on September 22 & 23, featuring performances by the artists from Bbeyond and by Mobius artists.

Bbeyond is supported by The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.  In Boston this project is made possible by a Live Arts Boston grant from the Boston Foundation, and by a grant from Culture Ireland.  Mobius is also funded by The Oedipus Foundation, the Tanne Foundation, and generous private support.

 

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Jun
24
8:00 PM20:00

Mobius@ Green Street

Mobius is excited to announce that we will be presenting an evening-length program of new composer/choreographer collaborative works at Green Street Studios in Cambridge, MA featuring local and New York based artists as well as Mobius Artists past and present on Saturday June 24th, 2017 at 8pm.  The sister concert was presented at Judson Memorial Church on Monday June 5th, 2017.

Sara June/Max Lord

Nathan Andary/Jane Wang

Yuka Takahashi/...

Jimena Bermejo/Anthony R. Green

Liz Roncka/Matthew Azevedo

Jen Hix/Luis Mojica

Matilda Sakamoto/David Louis Zuckerman

Julieta Valero/Sila Shaman

with

Leigh Atwell (dancer)
Chris Brokaw (guitar)
Melanie Hedlund (performer)
Carolyn Lewenberg (sculptor)
Edgar Rodriguez (dancer)
Lynda Senisi (dancer)
Vanessa Vargas (dancer)

For more information, visit http://www.mobius.org/aevents/2017/6/24/mobius-green-street-studios

 

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Jun
16
to Jun 18

Dance Now Boston/NYC Friday, June 16 and Sunday, June 18, 2017

Dance Now Boston/NYC, David Parker’s vision, now in its 4th season, to foster a choreographic bridge between Boston and New York, returns to The Dance Complex, June 16 and June 18, 2017 for a showcase of performance and celebration.

Friday, June 16, will feature Dance Now commissions by four Boston choreographers: Jimena Bermejo, Carey McKinley, McKersin Previlus, and Subject: Matter with Ian Berg.

Sunday, June 18, will offer works by New York's LMnO3 (Deborah Lohse, Cori Marquis, and Donnell Oakley). Saturday night's Snap•Crackle•BANG! is a FREE celebration presented by The Bang Group, featuring commissioned artists and honoring PFLAG trustee and social activist Stanley N. Griffith.

Friday, our performance starts at 8pm.

Sunday, our performance starts at 7pm.

For Dance Now Boston/NYC Friday and Sunday performances information & tickets, visit  http://dancenowbostonnyc.bpt.me/

For Snap•Crackle•BANG! celebration information & registration, visit www.thebanggroup.com.

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Jun
3
8:30 PM20:30

Car Ride - A Work In Progress

car ride by jimena bermejo

I'll be performing a work in progress, Car Ride, at the SOM Dance Festival in Somerville.

Time:  8:30pm

Location:  Foss Park - Broadway & Fellsway W. Somerville, MA

Car Ride is a site-specific work for a car that can be performed in any driveway or parking garage.

This is an excerpt of a full evening movement and performance site-specific work for a car and four performers: the driver and three others. The piece will happen eight times during the day, each time starting in a parked car and traveling in the same car along a previously mapped out route. One audience member participates in the piece while inside the car; outside audience members will have a few participation options. The performance includes choreographed movement in and out of the car, and exchanges with the audience that include games like karaoke and conversation.

Choreographer:  Jimena Bermejo

Dancers:  Joradn Jamil Ahmed, Claire Johannes and Audrey MacLean

For more information, click here:  Somerville Arts Council

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