BEMOVING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
The BEMOVING RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP is designed to create avenues for collaboration with artists who can ignite dialogue within the field and propose new means of working together. Each awarded fellow will conduct and record interviews with dance artists and movement practitioners who share their uniquely identified perspective on the field. Fellows will receive $1,000 to support their research which will be published in the BEMOVING newsletter and online. This program provides an opportunity to recognize missing systems of support within the infrastructure of dance in Los Angeles and beyond.
INTRODUCING OUR INAUGURAL FELLOW
BRIAN GOLDEN
BEMOVING is excited to announce its inaugural research fellowship and its first fellow, Brian Golden. The artistic director of Brian Golden Is Not a Machine, a dance company based in Los Angeles and New York, Golden is a dancer, choreographer, and MFA candidate at CalArts.
As part of his fellowship activity, Golden will investigate models of practice and rehearsal developed by neurodiverse and disabled performers. Interviewing these artists, he’ll propose a framework that BEMOVING can use to explore non-traditional methods of training dancers as well as modes of documenting, directing, and choreographing that privilege neurodiverse perspectives.
CHAMPIONING NEURODIVERSE
VOICES IN DANCE
Image from “Two Months Too Early” by Slade Segerson; Dancers: Jane Zogbi, Bella Allen, Donny Collinson, and Spencer Seebach
“As a neurodivergent artist, I’ve often had to adapt to systems that weren’t built for me. This fellowship is a chance to reverse that—to listen, learn, and shape new systems rooted in empathy, flexibility, and imagination.”
— Brian Golden, Inaugural Research Fellow
Photo by Zach Hyman from “Everything I Forgot” at Catskill Art Space for the Dance Gallery Residency featuring Frances Samson, Marcus Sarjeant, Bryan Testa and Liana Zhen-Ai
“Neurodivergence is not a limitation — it’s a creative engine. This fellowship is an invitation to dream up new ways to connect, new strategies for collaboration, and new ways of being together. I can’t wait to share this journey with the wider community and I’m honored to begin that work with BEMOVING.”
— Brian Golden, Inaugural Research Fellow
Photo by Zach Hyman from “Everything I Forgot” at Catskill Art Space for the Dance Gallery Residency featuring Bryan Testa and Liana Zhen-Ai